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- Chris has been moving house, which partially explains the terrible audio problems the past few episodes…
- For a lab, Chris believes in
- Lots of wire shelving (with epoxy coating)
- Everything on wheels (including shelving and workbenches)
- As much storage as you can get
- Chris has been doing livestreams of hardware design for Golioth.
- The module he is designing is called the Drachm (“dram”)
- The hardware Chris has been working on for the past 2 years is now open source
- Flox video with machine learning on a camera also featured Chris
- Altium finalized their acquisition by Renesas. The price already went up (discussed previously)
- Raspberry Pi released the RP2350 while we were away
- Inductor polarity on the RPi Pico 2
- RP2350 Datasheet
- You can choose the processors you want (Dual m33, dual RISC V)
- Microchip was offline due to …. HACKERS
- Dave has been trying out a new home battery storage system
- NMC vs LFP
- Reverse cycle
- There have been lots of layoffs in tech, including 15K (!) at Intel
- Layoffs.fyi
- Being sued for a battery review? Say it aint so
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Thank you Alex! You’re right, I fixed the leveling of the audio but the updated file was not linked properly. Should work now.
Man audio is really messed up in this one. Chris please deal in your volume. Blasting my ears out
Yeah, I’m struggling lately, my apologies. You mean the overall volume is too high relative to past episodes? I put this volume through a leveler because of issues with a directional mic, but I think the leveler might have made the dynamic range of the audio all wonky.
Ohh this makes sense. There are parts where your audio gets super loud, and parts where it tapers off to nothing. I was listening on a new car stereo, so I figured it was balance or eq or speed/volume compensation.
IME directional mics (hypercardioid?) are super sensitive to head movements, so you have to keep your cabeza absolutely still…
In any event, thank you for another great episode, and congrats on the new house!
I’ve only been listening to the pod for a few months now (started from episode 1 and up to almost episode 100 now), but I’m a big fan. First became familiar with you two on YouTube (Chris with his KiCad stuff and knew a bit of Dave’s content because a professor played several videos of his for our embedded systems and circuit analysis classes).
I’m curious how you two started your hardware career. Every job posting I see for hardware requires a master’s degree. I’m at the beginning of my grad program now, focusing on signal processing and IC design. All other electives are in various embedded and electronics courses.
The other challenging part is getting the amount of experience companies are looking for. I get very few opportunities at my current job because it deals mostly with electromechanical products (much of the hardware stuff is, sadly, outsourced to another company). So, I’m looking to just some projects on my own, doing stuff from Mims III designs and other projects I’m finding online on YouTube or Udemy.
I’m taking advice I heard on TAH, making builds to bring to interviews. Will this be enough? I’ll be in my mid-30s by the end of my masters program. Will that hinder job opportunities?
This is a good topic for us to discuss on air! Could you post about it on https://reddit.com/r/theamphour so we see it when we’re discussing on a future show?
Sure! If it hasn’t been discussed already, I can create a post. First, I’ll have to create a reddit account!
Btw, Chris, I got to check out some of your live designs on Golioth. I had to be a little sneaky because it’s during work hours, but totally worth it. Great content!