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- Chris has been recording from mHUB lately, which does not have great rooms.
- Dave’s slow purge from his move.
- EEVBlog2 channel was banned from doing live streams
- Dave won a copyright claim
- Soldering irons made for 120 can’t be plugged into 240…
- SCRs
- Core saturation
- Blow throughs
- One time fuse embedded in the plug pack
- A new LoRa SIP from MicrochipMicrosemi RISCVÂ
- Learn more about the RISCV ISA
- Rabbit 2000
- RTOS in C
- Zephyr Project
- Electric scooters seem to be everywhere
- Looking to repurpose a scooter you “find” on the street?
- Building a new uCurrent
- NeoDen4
- “Don’t Touch My Gerbers”
- Dave had a great idea about a layout contest:
- Fastest
- Neatest
- Most circuitous
- Most artistic
- There is now a Hardware Happy Hour (3H) in San Francisco! The first one is coming up in January
- “It’s what’s in your heart”
Thanks to Perspective for the photo of the scooter
Hey Dave and Chris,
Just wanted to answer your question/thought about mains fusing in plug packs…
I do not think fusing within the transformers is typical for modern switch-mode power converters. It is (and was) more prevalent in larger 50/60Hz step down transformer bricks. (There’s physically no space in the high frequency switching transformers! Look at the dimensions for an RM5 or RM7 transformer.)
In switch-mode plug packs, the popular choice is a “sub-miniature” type fuse. You can look up Littelfuse 400 series for an example.
You kind of butchered the Cortex family explanation. Basically Cortex-A is ‘application processor’ used primarily for tablets, phones, computers and the key feature is that they have memory controllers for interfacing GBs of DDR3 memory. The Cortex-M are ‘microcontrollers’ which typically have tightly coupled internal RAM. A cortex-A will typically run an OS kernal. A cortex-M will run on bare metal. Then comes cortex-R that are somewhat specialized for RTOS.
“Like Dave says: don’t steal, do something else!”