Newsletters to subscribe to if you are into embedded systems
List of newsletters for embedded systems and semiconductors
Anuj Deshpande
Licensing open-source projects with good and bad faith
Thoughts on how to license your open source project with the aim of building a successful business on top of it.
How many types of USB C cables are there?
I was chatting with people on the Makerville telegram group recently about USB C and I realized that there's some things about this standard that are misunderstood. I think people believe that with USB C they will have a single cable that can be used for everything, and
Policy and innovation
I was recently thinking about how innovation and government policy sometimes act at odds with each other. To better understand this, I wanted to create a thought experiment and think through how a government (espcially an Indian one) might react.
Let's say we build a small machine that
Versioning hardware is hard
This past week there's been quite some outrage over on the interwebs about the proposed new version of USB and how it's being named. If you don't know much about this, here's a TL;DR
1. USB started off with naming their
Cheap energy
I sometimes think that we spend more time worrying online – or that social media algorithms push worrisome content more aggressively than other. Regardless of the urgency (and the perceived urgency), I think some problems that I see being discussed on my network are –
* fresh water isn't plentiful
* capturing
Apple's eggs are not in one basket anymore
Apple has been manufacturing iPads and AirPods in Vietnam for some time now, and apparently MacBooks and Apple Watches are next. The presence of Apple's suppliers in an economy that's ranked 37th in the world is quite interesting because this has the potential of becoming a
Industrial Commons
I recently came across a Harvard Business Review post from 2009 titled Restoring American Competitiveness. Gary Pisano & Willy Shah make a case for manufacturing being the only way to ease America's growing deficit and increase the standard of living of it's citizens.
Something that stood
Ford's Sanand plant changes hands
Tata Motors is buying the Ford Sanand plant operational since 2015. It had around 3000 employees as per Ford's own data, and was spread across 460 acres (for reference, Tata's own Pune plant is spread 930 acres and has around 11,000 employees).
Also, Tata Motors
From the archives: EMS Automation Challenges with Amit and Akshay
Akshay Sharma & Amit Kucheria talk about the automation challenges they face everyday as they build a new age EMS here in India (PCB Kingdom)