#486 – Medical Kits, They’re The Future

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• Chris stupidly did a workout while working from home during the COVID-19 shutdown
• Chris has a new “lab” at home as well
• O’Reilly shut down events business
• Chris went to the Solid Conference in the past, run by Jon Bruner (who used to work at Formlabs but has moved on)
• Conferences going virtual
• Open Source Ventilator discussion on Hackaday
• Regulation for medical
• Dave getting stimulus from the Aussie gov’t
• Chris is getting a custom cable made
• Custom LED sign
• Product update
• Solus glass
• Chris finally went LeadFree with GC10
• Greg Davill discussed this paste when he was on the show
• Heat profiles were tough to find
• Dave warned against mixing of thermal mass components
• Vapor phase oven
• Forgot boards in the oven
• Dave made a video about LLC resonant converters, but it was a different topology (showing how many there are out there)
• Cuk (chook?) power supply
• Walt Jung
• Contactless fluid measurement app note from ADI
• Akiba on the show talking about ultrasonic montioring of water levels
• Learning in Lockdown days
• Dave is working on testing Akaline leakage (again!)
• Fluid leaking happens from a low load
• Batteries can develop a reverse charge!
• VAT (and associated processing fees) on small packages coming into the EU will be changing

Thanks to crises_crs for the lego xray photo