278: Bricks' Batteries Last Forever
Embedded15 Feb 2019

278: Bricks' Batteries Last Forever

Matthew Liberty (@mliberty1) shared good advice for lowering power. We talk about different ways to measure current (Matt has a nice write-up) and things software can do to decrease power consumption.

Sleeping is critical, of course, as is choosing your clock speed and setting the GPIOs to good states. Everything is fine until you start getting into the microamps, then your multimeter measurements may start to fail you. (EEvblog explains why in his uCurrent intro.)

Eventually, you may want to measure nanoamp sleep states along with amp-consuming wake states. Matt's Joulescope is a tool to do just that (Kickstarter goes live Feb 19, 2019!), automatically moving between 9 orders of magnitude of dynamic range and graphing the results on your computer.

Matthew's consulting company is JetPerch.

We mentioned Colin O'Flynn's ChipWhisperer which uses differential power analysis for security attacks. We also talked about Jacob Beningo's post on protecting your tools.

Elecia is giving away a chapter of her O'Reilly book, Making Embedded Systems. It is Chapter 10: Reducing Power Consumption. Hit the contact link if you want a copy.

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474: It's All Chaos and Horror

474: It's All Chaos and Horror

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473: Math Is Not the Answer

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472: Field of Boxes

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471: Bicycle Built For Two

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470: Upping the Chaos Level

470: Upping the Chaos Level

Helen Leigh joined us to talk about putting together conferences (including Teardown 2024), indie hardware producers (including via Crowd Supply), and building communities. Teardown will be June 21-23...

9 Feb 20241h 16min

469: Saving the World Is Not a Hobby

469: Saving the World Is Not a Hobby

Chris and Elecia chat with each other about motor encoder reading methods, conferences coming up, soldering irons, schematic reviews, looking for a new job, and general life. Some conferences coming ...

28 Jan 20241h 4min

468: Designed to Kill All Humans

468: Designed to Kill All Humans

Anders Nielsen joined us to talk about why the 6502 is the best processor. Anders also sells 65uino kits on his store: imania.dk. For more explanation of what they are, how they work, attaching perip...

12 Jan 202456min

467: Temporary Axolotl

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Chris and Elecia talk about cars, fleeting moments of fame, their year, and the sorry state of tools in the embedded space. Chris became internet famous for asking a car dealership's chatbot (powered ...

29 Dec 202352min

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