Reunion Impedance Matching and 2023 Predictions

For the first week of the new year, we welcome back some past guests to talk about electronics in 2023.

• Alvaro Prieto is a co-host of The Unnamed Reverse Engineering podcast and has co-hosted The Amp Hour before. He currently works at Sofar Ocean.
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• Ariel Briner was on episode 260 of the show talking about CartesianCo, a now defunct startup. Ariel now runs an 8 person consulting shop in SF called Electron Labs.
• Chris Osterwood was on episode 425 talking about Capable Robot Components, which he is still working on. They are preparing to release new hardware in 2023.
• State of robotics
• Possible to have consulting with robotics?
• We were recording during CES 2023
• AgTech
• Robotic pizza
• 3H meetup
• Modex Fulfilment(conference)
• IoT
• Electron labs projects are 30% IoT, but more are connected (50%+)
• iPhone globalstar connection is now possible and Iridium is coming soon.
• Alvaro uses Blues Wireless modems to do firmware updates on buoys near the shore. Ray Ozzie (founder and CEO of Blues) was on episode 603.
• Bugs in different locations due to unicode characters (or null characters)
• FreeRTOS vs Zephyr
• STM32U5 has DMA in stopmode, which is a low power option for DMA
• Alvaro has been creating Joulescope front plates
• What kind of mix of hw and software are each person doing?
• USB C cable tester
• ESP32-C3 is a RISC V wifi chip from Espressif. There is also support for Rust on that and some other Espressif chips (Chris Osterwood has been trying it out)
• Hubris OS from Oxide. Oxide engineer Laura Abbott talked about this when she was on the show. Another Oxide engineer Rick Altherr was on the show (before he worked there)
• Board bringup is a hardware activity for fimware engineers.
• Firmware with hardware when the power rails are controlled by the micro
• CM4 / Linux
• Buildroot vs Yocto
• Custom vs dev board
• Chaos camp
• Mark Rober video (car breakins)
• RISC V
• AI
• Midjourney
• ChatGPT
• Is it all just "Stochastic BS"?