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"?

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