Very good video about the chip shortage. There were fires in several plants, natural disasters like the earthquake in Fukushima, and too much dependence on only a few factories. We need to prevent this from happening again.
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2022-06-01 USB Cable Internal Resistance
I had a “high quality” 1 meter long USB A male to type C charging cable go bad so I cut the bad type C connector off. Then I stripped and twisted the two 5V wires together and measured the total wire resistance on the A end with my HP 3478 DMM in the 4
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2022-05-31 UCI: Autonomous Vehicles Spooked By Objects
This research from U. California Irvine says they can trick autonomous vehicles into erratic behavior. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/29/uci-researchers-autonomous-vehicles-can-be-tricked-into-dangerous-driving-behavior/
2022-05-29 CuriousMarc
Short YouTube video bio of “curiousMarc” Marc Verdiell. https://youtu.be/tJ2-kkhghD4
2022-05-28 Capacitors: Inferior Or Compromise
Long discussion about the great electrolytic capacitor failure fiasco of 2003. Someone said Dell lost $420 million on in-warranty repairs (we had Optiplex 270 and 280 MoBoards with those bad caps). Tom May One single video of cheap capacitors failing could be an individual with an axe to grind, trying to blemish a company. I
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2022-04-22 Reasons For The Chip Shortage
ASML makes equipment for leading edge chips, so later there may be a shortage of those; see this article. But I find it amusing that they’re salvaging trailing edge (older) chips from washing machines to reuse for other purposes. https://www.protocol.com/amp/chip-shortage-washing-machines-2657187274 But this article explains in detail how the chips are made and why they’re having
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2022-04-12 Chip Shortage Actually A Wafer Shortage
For more than a year during this ‘chip shortage, I’ve constantly heard, Elon Musk should build a chip fab. Build a chip fab! Build a chip Fab! Over and over again. It turns out that the chip shortage is actually a wafer shortage – there are not enough 200 mm (8 inch) wafers to make
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2022-02-01 Level 5 Autonomy Needs Smart Roads
From FB group TSLA… I think that level 5 autonomy is going to need the roads to have some role in driving the vehicle. There are a lot of transitory and emergency events that take place that will best be handled by the roads than by vehicles. Seems to me that a huge amount of
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2022-01-12 Printer Ink Cartridges Are A Ripoff
From FB group The article said DRM, but it didn’t make sense to me either. But what makes me wonder is why do they go to the trouble and expense to put a chip in the cartridge if it’s just a matter of accepting the prompt that appears??? What purpose does the chip serve? The
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