#569 – Electric Fields, Son.

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• • Dave and other YouTubers have been making reaction/explainer videos about Veritasium’s video, “The Big Misconception about Electricity”
  • Feynman lectures
  • How electricity gets to you (Wendover)
  • World’s largest solar array using HVDC
  • Photonicinduction
  • Electric Buses
  • Linus Tech Tips is growing their lab (and business)
  • Do career prospects change for people above 40 in the hardware industry? How is it different from the software industry, discussed on hacker news?
  • Chris recently went full-time at a startup called Golioth. Not mentioned on the show, but Chris also wrote about it here.
    • Started by former guest Jonathan Beri
    • Golioth is built to work with Zephyr RTOS currently.
    • In a former episode, Chris talked about hiring Bilal to write drivers for cellular modems, but that still wouldn’t hook into databases, it just throws MQTT packets at a server.
    • Chris was able to build a proof-of-concept using cellular modems in 3 hours total.
  • Sam Feller (former Engineer Blogs writer) wrote about keeping in touch using a CRM.
  • Amazon Re:Invent is offering private 5G networks in factories