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#614 – Reunion Impedance Matching and 2023 Predictions

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For the first week of the new year, we welcome back some past guests to talk about electronics in 2023.

  • Alvaro Prieto is a co-host of The Unnamed Reverse Engineering podcast and has co-hosted The Amp Hour before. He currently works at Sofar Ocean.
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  • Ariel Briner was on episode 260 of the show talking about CartesianCo, a now defunct startup. Ariel now runs an 8 person consulting shop in SF called Electron Labs.
  • Chris Osterwood was on episode 425 talking about Capable Robot Components, which he is still working on. They are preparing to release new hardware in 2023.
  • State of robotics
  • Possible to have consulting with robotics?
  • We were recording during CES 2023
  • AgTech
  • Robotic pizza
  • 3H meetup
  • Modex Fulfilment(conference)
  • IoT
  • Electron labs projects are 30% IoT, but more are connected (50%+)
  • iPhone globalstar connection is now possible and Iridium is coming soon.
  • Alvaro uses Blues Wireless modems to do firmware updates on buoys near the shore. Ray Ozzie (founder and CEO of Blues) was on episode 603.
  • Bugs in different locations due to unicode characters (or null characters)
  • FreeRTOS vs Zephyr
  • STM32U5 has DMA in stopmode, which is a low power option for DMA
  • Alvaro has been creating Joulescope front plates
  • What kind of mix of hw and software are each person doing?
  • USB C cable tester
  • ESP32-C3 is a RISC V wifi chip from Espressif. There is also support for Rust on that and some other Espressif chips (Chris Osterwood has been trying it out)
  • Hubris OS from Oxide. Oxide engineer Laura Abbott talked about this when she was on the show. Another Oxide engineer Rick Altherr was on the show (before he worked there)
  • Board bringup is a hardware activity for fimware engineers.
  • Firmware with hardware when the power rails are controlled by the micro
  • CM4 / Linux
  • Buildroot vs Yocto
  • Custom vs dev board
  • Chaos camp
  • Mark Rober video (car breakins)
  • RISC V
  • AI
  • Midjourney
  • ChatGPT
  • Is it all just “Stochastic BS”?

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