I enjoyed it when I was a kid, but one of the ways my thinking has evolved is away from the concepts central to this book. (Though I’ll never leave the concept that makers make the world and we should have no patience for people who contribute only a markup, though to be clear I classify Wall Street in that camp)
Holy clickbait, batman! The hard parts were done for them! All the fast signals like DDR are on the SoM, designed by real humans who understand EE. To make it all even more of a lie, their design is basically a copy of the reference base-board for the SoM.
"Boots on first attempt" well, duh! the SoM is self-contained. It boots all by itself as is... so no wonder that it boots.
No EMC results either. Making things work is 10% of the work. Passing certs on unintended emissions and making it stable is the other 150%.
My reading of this is that they asked the system to redesign the PCB that was used in the i.MX 8M reference system-on-module. It looks like they take a parts list, a PCB shape, and a rough floorplan and pass that to their tool, which spits out a PCB design.
I could actually see myself using this tool, as someone who trained as an EE and still likes to tinker with electronics. It would be fun to just assemble a parts list and a rough layout and then receive a working electronic device a few weeks later with minimal work.
> We need a healthly ecosystem where there are hundreds of separate companies each solving 1-5 use cases.
please make a successful economic case for a company only making a mobile phone OS, in a world where android exists and china can crank out 100x the devices at 1/10 the price paying $0 per device license fees than eu could.
The way I read the US constitution, every federal government agency is necessarily contained in one of the three branches, since the entire federal government is made of and only of those three branches. FCC is not in the legislative branch -- constitution is clear that that is only the congress, it is not judicial -- the constitution is clear that those are the courts. So it is in the executive, which makes sense since its job is to enforce law -- the job of the executive branch. The executive branch reports directly to and is directly answerable to the head of the executive -- the president.
The congress cannot legislate a fourth branch even if they wanted to. They'd need a constitutional amendment for that. We have thus, by a simple application of reading and logic concluded that this is precisely as is expected given the US constitution.
At least one (and I assume all) manufacturers of network hardware have backroom code sharing deals with the NSA, and likely only highest leadership and a single release engineer knows about it.
I personally know a trustworthy release engineer that described in detail they were the person that had to send all new source code for each release to an NSA owned FTP server.
Does that mean Apple is actually doing this too? Hard to say, but when there is no accountability it is best to operate under the assumption the worst is happening. Particularly given Tim Cook is very publicly sucking up to the president every chance he gets.
Im presuming you can't just directly ask the people you met if this mysterious modded Airtag exists?
Also on a side note: Did anything happen in 2025 regarding the saga from Defcon last year or did everyone just move on after 24? I apologize if this is still a sore issue.
I hear you, and if I was given such an order, even if it came with a gag order, I would never comply and would go straight to the press, consequences be damned.
Problem is everyone knows the people like me that would react this way, and those people go on vacation eventually or can be replaced. Pay attention when that happens.
If Trump asked Tim Cook for a favor, I bet it gets taken care of one way or the other.
I would not take your bet on any specific company at any specific time, but in the scale of the top ten tech companies over a decade, it is absolutely happening regularly with some of them and there is political will for it to be all of them.
> Regen braking isn't more complicated than an alternator.
Either disingenuous or ill-informed. one is ~1KW for a few seconds a day, the other is > 100KW of power for dozens of seconds, multiple dozens of times a day. completely engineering
A quick look at the table https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7242a4.htm shows that the issue is not guns but something else. This is corroborated by these similar charts: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/firearms.html vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
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