Recalling Recalls

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• Dave tore down his ATEM mini ISO
• Internally there is a Xilinx Zynq that has an $1800 single piece price
• The pipelined data path can also do things like Chromakey
• Texas power outage
• Lawrence Krause
• Dave is upgrading his solar
• Can solar be used as a hedge on inflation?
• North vs south facing depends on your latitude.
• String inverter vs microinveter
• John Edmond of Cree (one of our earliest guests!) talking about LEDs and SiC mosfets
• Past guest Martin Lorton made a set of videos about inspecting solar panels
• DC isolator fires
• Product recall
• RCA TV recall
• Dave had to ship out shims to counteract underspec'd thickness of the PCB on 121GW
• Tesla recall
• Takata airbag recall
• Dave's video (#10) about how a rubberband cost millions of dollars!
• Marco Reps did a build of an 8.5 digit voltmeter
• Perserverance landed on Mars! So awesome
• The "Marketing Camera" was an off-the-shelf camera from FLIR
• Real Engineering did a video about all of the features on the new rover
• Fry's is shutting down
• US administration is pushing for more silicon investment (fabs)

Thanks to Wikipedia for the representative rendering of Dave and Chris trying to remember recalls