#680 – Catching Rockets with Musk Sticks
- Author
- The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)
- Published
- Mon 21 Oct 2024
- Episode Link
- https://theamphour.com/680-catching-rockets-with-musk-sticks/
- 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
