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> Reverse-engineering the Pi 5's MIPI to push 5.6 Gbps from custom MASH sigma-delta ADCs to a Lattice ECP5 FPGA to the Raspberry Pi is serious engineering Using video interfaces to…

Cool project. Thanks for doing a write-up that includes so much detail. I do a lot of PCB review for students and makers, so if you're interested I wrote up some notes. Consider th…

> Reverting to factory state seems riskier than last known good state. Reverting to factory state is the last resort. You don't have users do it unless there is no other good state…

> will be booted automatically if all else fails I prefer to keep the factory firmware reset to a manual process that requires user intervention. For example, holding down the rese…

You need to have the firmware equivalent of a platform team. It's common now for medium and large companies to have some variant of a cloud platform team: People responsible for sh…

Two important features I insist on for products I develop: 1. Staged rollout of firmware updates. It’s common practice for apps and software but for some reason it’s less common wi…

> because some undeserving person (who is not in their group) might get it. Surely someone, somewhere feels like this, but it’s more often a strawman argument used to make opposing…

> perhaps arguing that the cost of the something has to come from somewhere. This is exactly what’s going on. People know that these expenditures ultimately come out of the company…

> Exercise and raising testosterone will have a meaningful effect. To be completely clear: Taking testosterone will actually worsen fertility. TRT will severely reduce fertility. L…

> That makes a lot of sense to me. One of the reasons I stick mostly with software is that it allows for much quicker iteration. 4-5 day turnaround from OSH park is quite fast. Kee…

I love seeing DIY PCB manufacturing projects like this. Using the 3D printer as a plotter is a creative take on the traditional DIY process. For any aspiring EE hobbyists: Manufact…

Good to hear. I led the UniFi Protect effort at Ubiquiti. Responsiveness and fast time-to-video were our top UX priorities for the system. The WebRTC direct-connect and bypassing c…

This 75% number is not from a formal study. The number supposedly comes from quotes from 3 different psychiatrists who quoted the same 75% number. The author verified the 75% numbe…

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