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- Great Scott has a new video about synchronous switching converters that was great!
- Chris was hanging out with a friend in the chip industry, talking about power converters. Past guests at chip companies
- There was a presentation by Werner Johansson about doing a digitally controlled power circuit using Atmel parts
- Should Dave be programming in Aussie++? It is now “officially endorsed” by Dave
- In Dave’s 1024th video, he got really old code working
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W has been released and is “the most efficient”
- Mentoring exercise talking to a student looking to get hired, Chris mentioned the student should get lots of tools in their toolbelt
- Dave expanded on us talking about Flux.ai last week in a video on EEVblog2 about tools
- Chris is now looking for an engineering laptop, but it really doesn’t have to be that different from a normal laptop
- The Framework laptop is modular, but how often will you use those features?
- Chris has been trying out the Sparkfun Micromod system, but thinks it will have limited usefulness
- Are modular standards doomed to fail over the long term? What are some good examples of a truly modular system? PC/104 is an older modular system discussed before (and is still around)
Hi all, re obsolescent modular standards don’t forget S-100 !
I guess you could call lunar insolation either inlunation or inselation. Latin vs Greek?
Hi Chris,
The TLDR Laptop recommendation any Lenovo ThinkPad Mobile Workstation
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/c/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp?orgRef=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252F
I´ve did a lot of research for my current laptop with similar requirements of yours, my priorities were:
1. Hi reliability and stability
2. Powerful enough for CAD and VMs plus tons of Chrome TABs
3. Long service life 3+ Years, Possible to Upgrade Drives and RAM
I´ve use to like Panasonic Toughbook (buy used from eBay too expensive new) they are very good in terms of reliability but never top end hardware and very bulky and heavy.
For my new one I´ve ended up with a Lenovo ThinkPad P52 Mobile Workstation as all engineers been a cheapskate got one used from eBay and with still 2 years left from the 3-year factory warranty and upgrade the SSD and RAM from 16GB to 32GB, and add a second 1TB SSD in the spare M.2 NVMe Slot, it´s been great for almost two years now.
Runner ups were HP Z Book and Dell Precision Workstation
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/mlp/laptops/workstation-352501–1
https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/sf/precision-laptops
Hi Dave,
The perfect example of modular electronics are industrial PLCs, I´m working Allen Bradley PLC at the moment but almost all mayor Brands like Siemens, OMRON, Phoenix Contact, Schneider, ABB, etc, are the most modular systems I´ve seen, having, docents of different modules available, in hundreds of possible configurations.
For an example of a modular product, how about The PC!!!
“One of the strengths of the PC compatible design is its modular hardware design. End-users could readily upgrade peripherals and, to some degree, processor and memory without modifying the computer’s motherboard or replacing the whole computer, as was the case with many of the microcomputers of the time.”
He, he. The old fool.
‘Awwww come on whaat about LEGO!!!