MEP EP#264: Electronic Wear Items

• Tesla Recalls Cars With EMMC Failures, Calls Part A ‘Wear Item’

• • Wear items on cars are designed to be “easily” serviced
    • Is this just a cop out to avoid warranty issues and recall problems?
  • If the EMMC is a wear item it should have a recommended service interval but it does not
  • Derek Fronek from the slack channel:
    • “So it finally happened.... after all these years of using SD cards on pi's ive never had an SD card fail on me, until today.......”

• Resealing 12oz cans?

• • 3D printed a sealing cap that screws onto a Yeti can insulator
  • Testing it out over the weekend

• GM to extend vehicle plant shutdowns to more than a month

• • The chip shortages we have been talking about? GM expects it to get worse.
  • Ford cutting Pick Up Truck production!
  • Shortage could lower Ford’s earnings in 2021 by $2.5 Billion
  • Suppliers are saying by mid June they will be caught up

• PinoTaur REV 4 Prototype ordered

• • Relay part number: G2RG-2A-X DC12
  • Changing current sense IC to a higher rated one for the 50V DC line
  • Added a second RGB channel for the serial LEDs

• Digi-Key Elimination Search

• • Talked about this on Episode 260: A Couple Months Ago
  • Use a ~ in the “search within results” box to eliminate whatever you like from your search

• Coolio Opamp

• • TLV915x
  • $0.512 in 1k qty from TI
  • 125uV offset
  • 16V
  • Rail to rail

• Parallax Prop 2 exists!

• • Parker has a development board now