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- Starship 5 landed on chopsticks! (you know, in case you have been offline for 2 weeks)
- Dave’s EV had a stuck cable
- Portable charger is surprisingly good
- CCS Charging standard
- Fast charge 36/50 kW
- MKBHD Chevy Silverado review
- JLC is now offering silkscreen QR codes to have individually marked boards
That’s the board that Chris has been designing on a livestream each week - 1 wire UID (pioneered by Dallas, then Maxim, now Analog…le sigh)
- Dave is selling a new Bryman multimeter, the BM2257 (teardown photos)
- Chris just returned from Embedded World North America, doing a demo at the Joulescope booth
- Chris also gave a talk at the Zephyr meetup which will be released in a few weeks
- Hackaday article about their comment section and project/article feedback
- References
- Musk Sticks
- NC floods might impact the supply chain due to Spruce Pine NC being a source for quartz. We didn’t read this article, but it was a better explainer than we had at the time.
- Meshtastic objects to the proposed FCC changes
Thanks for another great episode!
A few thoughts:
1) I think even engineers can frame criticism with positive language. For instance, “have you considered taking this approach…?” Instead of, “this will never work because…” It takes a little more work, but hey you’re already leaving a comment, why not make it a good one?
2) Are musk sticks flavored with rose water? Sounds like an old school candy.
3) What’s the minimum viable hardware I need to get a meshtastic mode going? This sounds like the same challenge Hams are having, where we need to use the spectrum so commercial interests don’t step all over it.
Hey Dave, about your comment regarding the Hackaday, I suggest you go back and listen again carefully to that episode because they did actually say clearly that the problem was with unhelpful comments like ‘this project is sh*t’ and nothing constructive. They did actually say they welcome negative comments if they are constructive.
Even the article in the link makes this distinction:
“And don’t get us wrong: we love comments that help improve a project. There’s a not-so-fine line between “why didn’t you design it with trusses to better hold the load?” and “why did you paint it black, because blue is the superior color”. You know what we mean. Constructive criticism, good. Pointless criticism, bad.”
(which, coincidentally, is the exact same example that Chris and Dave gave for pointless nitpicking).