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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • I think they do/will make a lot of sense. Being able to drive to a job site and run your welder or other tools from the truck’s battery seems like a game changer for certain applications. The Chevy Silverado EV and the F-150 Lightning seem pretty nice to me. They’ll both be much more appealing once battery tech, charging speed, and charging infrastructure improve. I’m pretty stoked about this new company called Telo, I hope they make it. It’s a pretty small truck with an 8’ bed that’s about as long as a Mini Cooper, plus it has the solar tech from Aptera.

    Edit: and I imagine the Rivian R2T and R3T will be pretty sweet.
















  • The date/time aspect is an interesting thought. For a bit more context, this machine is a Raspberry Pi connected to several other devices, some via USB and some via a CAN network. The system gets powered on manually, the user performs a task, then shuts it down until they need it again. We only use the date/time for logging. The system is connected to our wifi at our facility but after we ship it then it’s likely it will never be connected to the internet except maybe when we’re servicing it and updating code. I don’t think the Pi has a RTC. I don’t really see how the date/time could be causing the issue I’m seeing (seems to be lag in communication with the devices on the CAN network) but I guess stranger things have happened.