#724 – All Heat, No Useful Work

About this episode

Chris and Dave discuss recent developments in technology, including data centers, PCB industry impacts, and new projects.

Chris just got back from a work trip to Madrid He also got to hang out with Matt Venn (and coworker Mike Szczys) in Valencia Dave has a new data center going in across the street Chris enjoyed this episode of Prof G Markets where they talked about the impact of data centers on power and the rise of “behind the meter” generation Dave without internet for a week. Chris has had multiday losses after fiber has been cut in his neighborhood. Humanoid robots…on a plane! Chris has been working on 0201 components on a tiny Bluetooth board The Iran War and subsequent rise in petroleum product sourcing issues is starting to impact the PCB industry PCBs we are used to ordering at low cost (JLC, PCBway, etc) are normally loss leaders to get larger business later Chris found his low cost microscope from Florin/Voltlog trinocular video lcamtuf will be on the show soon, Chris bought a CNC mill because of a single webpage of his making TagMod board is a new breakout Chris made for injecting power through a 10 pin TagConnect cable . NXP devboards somehow have LEDs as bright as the sun Dave has been revisiting his solar analytics (update: he figured out he’s getting charged…

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris Gammell, Dave Jones

Topics covered

• data centers
• power generation
• PCB industry
• humanoid robots
• Bluetooth technology
• solar analytics
• application optimization

Keywords

• data centers
• PCB
• Bluetooth
• solar analytics
• humanoid robots
• application optimization
• TagMod

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Canonical, Ubuntu, Golioth

Products: TagMod, Zephyr

Places: Madrid, Valencia

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