MEP EP#264: Electronic Wear Items

MEP EP#264: Electronic Wear Items

• Tesla Recalls Cars With EMMC Failures, Calls Part A ‘Wear Item’

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  • Wear items on cars are designed to be “easily” serviced
    
    
    • Is this just a cop out to avoid warranty issues and recall problems?
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • If the EMMC is a wear item it should have a recommended service interval but it does not
  
  
  • Derek Fronek from the slack channel:
    
    
    • “So it finally happened.... after all these years of using SD cards on pi's ive never had an SD card fail on me, until today.......”
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

• Resealing 12oz cans?

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  • 3D printed a sealing cap that screws onto a Yeti can insulator
  
  
  • Testing it out over the weekend
  
  
  
  

• GM to extend vehicle plant shutdowns to more than a month

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  • The chip shortages we have been talking about? GM expects it to get worse.
  
  
  • Ford cutting Pick Up Truck production!
  
  
  • Shortage could lower Ford’s earnings in 2021 by $2.5 Billion
  
  
  • Suppliers are saying by mid June they will be caught up
  
  
  
  

• PinoTaur REV 4 Prototype ordered

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  • Relay part number: G2RG-2A-X DC12
  
  
  • Changing current sense IC to a higher rated one for the 50V DC line
  
  
  • Added a second RGB channel for the serial LEDs
  
  
  
  

• Digi-Key Elimination Search

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  • Talked about this on Episode 260: A Couple Months Ago
  
  
  • Use a ~ in the “search within results” box to eliminate whatever you like from your search
  
  
  
  

• Coolio Opamp

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  • TLV915x
  
  
  • $0.512 in 1k qty from TI
  
  
  • 125uV offset
  
  
  • 16V
  
  
  • Rail to rail
  
  
  
  

• Parallax Prop 2 exists!

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  • Parker has a development board now