#680 – Catching Rockets with Musk Sticks

The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

• 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