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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast / #680 – Catching Rockets with Musk Sticks

Description

Chris and Dave discuss identifying boards, amazing rocket catches, recent travel to trade shows, the impacts of the floods on the supply chain, EV charging, and more!

Subtitle: Chris and Dave discuss identifying boards, amazing rocket catches, recent travel to trade shows, the impacts of the floods on the supply chain, EV charging, and more!
Duration
Publishing date: 2024-10-21 12:00
Link: https://theamphour.com/680-catching-rockets-with-musk-sticks/
Contributors: The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones); author
Enclosures: https://traffic.libsyn.com/theamphour/Show_680_-_Catching_Rockets_With_Musk_Sticks.mp3; audio/mpeg

Shownotes

Starship 5 landed on chopsticks! (you know, in case you have been offline for 2 weeks)
Dave’s EV had a stuck cable
Portable charger is surprisingly good
CCS Charging standard
Fast charge 36/50 kW
MKBHD Chevy Silverado review
JLC is now offering silkscreen QR codes to have individually marked boards

That’s the board that Chris has been designing on a livestream each week
1 wire UID (pioneered by Dallas, then Maxim, now Analog…le sigh)
Dave is selling a new Bryman multimeter, the BM2257 (teardown photos)
Chris just returned from Embedded World North America, doing a demo at the Joulescope booth
Chris also gave a talk at the Zephyr meetup which will be released in a few weeks
Hackaday article about their comment section and project/article feedback
References
Musk Sticks
NC floods might impact the supply chain due to Spruce Pine NC being a source for quartz. We didn’t read this article, but it was a better explainer than we had at the time.
Meshtastic objects to the proposed FCC changes