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#532 – Recalling Recalls

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  • Dave tore down his ATEM mini ISO
  • Internally there is a Xilinx Zynq that has an $1800 single piece price
  • The pipelined data path can also do things like Chromakey
  • Texas power outage
  • Lawrence Krause
  • Dave is upgrading his solar
  • Can solar be used as a hedge on inflation?
  • North vs south facing depends on your latitude.
  • String inverter vs microinveter
  • John Edmond of Cree (one of our earliest guests!) talking about LEDs and SiC mosfets
  • Past guest Martin Lorton made a set of videos about inspecting solar panels
  • DC isolator fires
  • Product recall
  • RCA TV recall
  • Dave had to ship out shims to counteract underspec’d thickness of the PCB on 121GW
  • Tesla recall
  • Takata airbag recall
  • Dave’s video (#10) about how a rubberband cost millions of dollars!
  • Marco Reps did a build of an 8.5 digit voltmeter
  • Perserverance landed on Mars! So awesome
  • The “Marketing Camera” was an off-the-shelf camera from FLIR
  • Real Engineering did a video about all of the features on the new rover
  • Fry’s is shutting down
  • US administration is pushing for more silicon investment (fabs)

Thanks to Wikipedia for the representative rendering of Dave and Chris trying to remember recalls

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