#676 – Moving House (And Lab)

The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

• Chris has been moving house, which partially explains the terrible audio problems the past few episodes…
• For a lab, Chris believes in
  • Lots of wire shelving (with epoxy coating)
  • Everything on wheels (including shelving and workbenches)
  • As much storage as you can get
• Chris has been doing livestreams of hardware design for Golioth.
• The module he is designing is called the Drachm (“dram”)
• The hardware Chris has been working on for the past 2 years is now open source
• Flox video with machine learning on a camera also featured Chris
• Altium finalized their acquisition by Renesas. The price already went up (discussed previously)
• Raspberry Pi released the RP2350 while we were away
• Inductor polarity on the RPi Pico 2
• RP2350 Datasheet
• You can choose the processors you want (Dual m33, dual RISC V)
• Microchip was offline due to …. HACKERS
• Dave has been trying out a new home battery storage system
• NMC vs LFP
• Reverse cycle
• There have been lots of layoffs in tech, including 15K (!) at Intel
• Layoffs.fyi
• Being sued for a battery review? Say it aint so