EP#358: The Social Media Nightmare

EP#358: The Social Media Nightmare

Porsche’s synthetic gasoline factory comes online today in Chile

  • Way back on episode 265 (Feb 2021) we talked about this announcement from Porsche.
  • Production
    • 34,000 gallons (130,000 L) a year
    • 14.5 million gallons (55 million L) a year by 2024
    • 145 million gallons (550 million L) a year by 2026
  • Wind power to electrolysis water into hydrogen and oxygen
    • The hydrogen is then combined with carbon captured from the air or industrial sources to synthesize methanol
    • Then be converted into longer hydrocarbons to be used as fuel
    • Recycling CO2 in the air
  • Is this the future of current Internal Combustion Engines?
    • Direct drop in for normal gasoline
    • “Carbon Neutral” way to run your classic car

Chip manufacturing equipment sales record in 2022

  • Record fab constructions have driven total semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales to cross the $100 billion mark for a second straight year
  • Chips Act is $280 billion.
    • China, Taiwan and Korea are projected to remain the top three destinations for equipment spending in 2022.
  • Most of this money is going towards Wafer Manufacturing Equipment with a focus on wafers for logic / active components like microcontrollers

Why The Computer Company Raspberry Pi’s New Hire Caused A Social Media Firestorm

  • Hired an ex–police officer, Toby Roberts, as its maker-in-residence.
  • “I was a Technical Surveillance Officer for 15 years, so I built stuff to hide video, audio, and other covert gear”

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EP#32: Erroneous Enclosures of Enormous Energy

EP#32: Erroneous Enclosures of Enormous Energy

Podcast NotesStephen brewed a batch of beer over the last weekend with his new electric brewing setup. It is not complete yet but it does work. Stephen converted his brew kettle to include a 4500W hea...

9 Syys 201627min

EP#31: Embedded Brewing with Arduinos

EP#31: Embedded Brewing with Arduinos

Podcast NotesParker designed the Macro Duino! Basically a Arduino clone using Type C USB, a FT230X as the USB UART bridge, and proper power switching with the Ti TPS2113A. See Figure 1. Also supports ...

2 Syys 201633min

EP#30: You won’t believe this ONE WEIRD Engineering trick

EP#30: You won’t believe this ONE WEIRD Engineering trick

Podcast NotesParker is working on streamlining the Selective Solder Process at MacroFab. Writing a script that will take XYRS data and generate the G-Code for the machine.Design work on a calibration ...

26 Elo 201634min

EP#29: Modular Toilet Humor

EP#29: Modular Toilet Humor

Podcast NotesStephen is currently working on DipTrace part libraries and templates for DRC and CAM file generation. Should have an article out next week about it. GitHub repository for DipTrace files ...

19 Elo 201627min

EP#28: Dissolving Energon Cubes

EP#28: Dissolving Energon Cubes

Podcast NotesStephen has been running tests on the Energon Cube for the SSPS. So far everything is working great. Check out Stephen's blog post update:  Super Simple Power Supply "SSPS" Design (Part 3...

12 Elo 201631min

EP#27: If There is a Bug, You Can Fix It

EP#27: If There is a Bug, You Can Fix It

Podcast NotesOur Guest this week is Kwabena Agyeman who runs OpenMV. See Figure 1.The OpenMV project is about creating low-cost, extensible, Python powered, machine vision modules and aims at becoming...

5 Elo 201636min

EP#26: Super Simple Buss Bars of Power

EP#26: Super Simple Buss Bars of Power

Podcast NotesStephen has been working on making the copper buss bars for the SSPS Energon cube. See Figure 1.We calculated that the resistance of the copper buss bars is 0.00458 ohms or 4.58 mohm. Our...

29 Heinä 201631min

EP#25: Lousy Datasheet Buyouts

EP#25: Lousy Datasheet Buyouts

Podcast NotesStephen has completed the SSPS Analog board. See Figure 1. Testing will begin early next week.The Macro Amp that Stephen has been working on is almost done. He just needs to solder the th...

22 Heinä 201631min

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