MEP EP#198: Digital Razorblades

Show Notes

MEP EP#198: Digital Razorblades

Parker

• Pinotaur REV 2
  • REV 1 is being tested inside of a pinball machine
• ABC (Automotive Butt Cooler)
  • Idea for DEFCON?
• Lithium battery pack fix?
  • Mother’s electric bicycle
  • 50V pack all 18650s
  • The pack is good but no output
• Carburetor rebuilding trick?
  • Stranded copper wire as a "brush"
  • 4 wheeler
  • Generator

Stephen

• Beer monitor
  • Still need a name
  • Parker's parts have arrived
  • Need to get solid state relays in
    • Mount to or case? Need to look further into heat transfer
  • Going to machine the cases soon

R.F.O.

• Check Your Halloween Candy For Malicious Payloads
  • USB sticks instead of razor blades and drugs in your kids candy
• Yageo buying KEMET?
  • 1.8 Billion Dollaros
• USI MT7697H Development Kit for Alexa Connect Kit
  • Custom hardware for Alexa
  • Arduino Zero Compatible
  • $196.98
  • 192 MHz Cortex-M MCU and a WiFi/Bluetooth module
• Plea deal for man who sold fake chips to US military
  • He instructed suppliers in China to repaint and remark “old, used and/or discarded ICs” to make them appear as new.
  • He also told a testing laboratory in China to provide two versions of test reports – one to Vasquez with all the test results, and another “sanitized version” that had could give to the purchaser.
  • 60 years in prison
• RPI 4 issues fixed?
  • July 17th - RPI Forum
  • Released an update package that “solves” a lot of the initial rpi4 launch issues.
  • Lower USB power consumption
  • Booting over network is now a possibility
  • Hat reboot fixes

Creators & Guests

Host

Parker Dillmann

A Founder @MacroFab.Builds Electronics, Cars, & Jeeps.

Host

Stephen Kraig

EE

Producer

Chris Martin

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