#617 – Conference Room Innovation | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

It was Australia Day when Dave and Chris recorded
The pinnacle of stereaming services: The Amp Hour+
Chris just got a new solar quote for his house, the roof shape is still too weird to make it a good option.
Thunderbirds episode
Solar city panels starting on fire
Dave is looking at upgrading his solar again, including with DC batteries
Span.io is working on smart circuit breaker boxes
The Grid book
Sydney program to use homeowners’ batteries
How many times has this guy gotten laid off? (the one scamming for 8-10 engineering jobs at a time)
Big layoffs are hitting the likes of Google, MS, Amazon
In Australia, this is called “being made redundant” or “retrenchment”
Conference room innovation for speakerphones
Tom Scott got to visit and walk on the Parkes Telescope (of The Dish fame)
Tour of the switch
Dave has timelapse video of the dish moving
Dave got to blinky with the RV32, the $0.10 RISC V processor
Self Soldering Circuits from Carl Bugeja
Water cooling inside PCBs
Coin cell cutout on a PCB