Baron H.

@reindsummit just announced a tier for small businesses and startups @ $750/ticket Really glad to see this, thank you @aphysicist

Make sure you file DD2345 via DLA JCP, but first make a PIEE account to do your level 2 NIST CMMC on SPRS! Wait you never registered on DECCS for DDTC? I bet don't have a CAGE or an UEID on SAM either😂 At this rate you'll never join NAC in time for that DOTC-OTA RFWP 🤣🤣

I thought the San Francisco housing market was bad:

Has anyone tried to improve their specs on this?

Adam Smith thought that even in a free market, no country would ever be stupid enough to outsource industries that were necessary for national defense. Adam Smith was wrong. Time to reindustrialize America.

@DeveloperHarris SAR will push this even further

eventually we'll get to the point where the entire earth is livestreamed at one meter resolution

Doing this but with RDX ⚗️✨

I love what REIND is doing but $2,500 per head is nuts No early stage startup is going to pay that, and without those guys you’re really hurting the ecosystem I hope they reconsider

@1llegalEngineer Been in worse situations, it’s just funny 😂

@Dunetsk If you can explain it they really don't care

Flying back from Austin but my only remaining clean shirt is promotional merch from a PETN manufacturer 🫠 Also 50% chance my shoes test positive for high explosives

So long Austin and thank you for all the spice…

@zackslab @i2cjak This should be interesting

I FORMALLY CHALLENGE THEE (@i2cjak) TO AN EE DESIGN CHALLENGE (rendered in the TONE of an i2cjak wannabEE ARTICLE): ANON… I HAVE A PROPOSAL. a DESIGN CHALLENGE. a TEST of SKILL. a TEST of GRIT. a TEST of whether you are a REAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEER or merely someone who COPY PASTAS application notes written by some TI intern named KYLE. let me set the stage... imagine a world where you need to convert 12v into 48v. this is not a crazy number. this is just BOOSTING a voltage. people have been doing this since before your GREAT GREAT grandparents knew what a transistor was (i2cjack just turned 14). and yet… what does an i2cjak do? he goes to MOUSER (he was banned from digikey) and he types: "BOOST CONVERTER" he grabs some $6.37 switching regulator IC that hardly has any stock, has 87 internal op amps, slope compensation, cmc, undervoltage lockout, soft start, thermal shutdown, brownout detect, a coffee maker, and a SMALL GOBLIN that tunes the loop compensation FOR HIM. he then looks himself in the mirror and calls himself A HARDTECH ENGINEER. he slaps down one inductor, a diode, some caps, and a prayer. NO. not today anon. THE CHALLENGE: • design a 12v to 48v dc/dc converter • highest efficiency @ 10A/480W wins but there are RULES. and they are CRUEL. RULES: • NO SWITCHING REGULATOR ICS • no boost controllers • no flyback controllers • no "smart power stages" • no little black boxes that say "PWM controller" on the datasheet • if the datasheet contains the phrase "switching regulator" you are DISQUALIFIED ALLOWED COMPONENTS: • a microcontroller • gate drivers (maybe) • power transistors • diodes • discrete analog • discrete logic • passives THE CONTROL LOOP: • must be written entirely BY YOU • no OTS analog compensation network that MAGICALLY stabilizes everything YOU WILL: • fab the board at a fab house of your choice • solder it YOURSELF • measure voltages YOURSELF • measure currents YOURSELF • perform step response YOURSELF • perform load sweeps YOURSELF • measure EFFICIENCY YOURSELF • you know, REAL EE SHIT YOURSELF like the founding fvcking fathers intended. ANY TOPOLOGY IS FAIR GAME: • boost • flyback • forward • pushpull • interleaved • some cursed topology you invented at 3am i do not care. but it must convert 12v to 48v. and it must fvck. SCORING: highest measured efficiency @ 10A wins (adjusted for BOM cost). WHY THIS IS FUN: because suddenly all the stuff those nice little regulator ICs do for you becomes YOUR PROBLEM. you must engineer. ELECTRICALLY. things like: • current limiting • duty cycle saturation • loop stability • slope compensation • dead time • gate drive timing • startup behavior • transient response EXPECTED OUTCOMES: • REAL EE is harder than it looks, i might fail. you might fail. BUT WE ALL LEARN. • writing a control loop from scratch is CURSED. • switch node ringing is DEMONIC. and guess what i2cjak, the inductor you'll pick will be WRONG!!! your efficiency will mysteriously drop by 15% because physics HATES YOU!!! but, you are a MANIAC. and you will eventually produce something BEAUTIFUL even IF it is covered in your BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS. so anon. do you ACCEPT the challenge? or will you retreat back to your TPS5430 application notes like a frightened little B*TCH? MAY THE SUPREME WIZARD OF ELECTRONS WIN!!!

"We do not have to build such a large Navy because our allies have significant naval capability...you see, as briefed by Mike Mullen, the 1,000 Ship Navy™ is when we recognize the fact that our allies will, in a time of crisis..."

@Cogs0fWar @DouglasBShaw The minute things get serious China will use existing criminal networks to start a coercion and assassination campaign targeting prominent defense founders and investors While your point stands now, the stakes will soon be quite real for the ‘civilian’ side of this fight

What happens when people who build the tools of war can claim its moral weight without bearing its risks? warontherocks.com/2026/03/the-da…

This is seriously impressive

@Osinttechnical Hell of a week for @allencontrol

For the first time, an Iranian-backed militia has carried out an FPV drone attack in Iraq, an incredibly dangerous new development. Seen here, the FPV munition flies around Victory Base near Baghdad International Airport before slamming into a building.

There are a handful of people within the federal government who, in retrospect, will be remembered in history books as responsible for saving America from a dire energy crisis by unlocking nuclear energy. They are unrecognized today everywhere but in hit pieces. I am grateful.

One for the record books

Step in the right direction but we need three extra zeros added to this number

@mattparlmer @genfabco How do I invest?

Near term @genfabco roadmap: - 50um feature subtractive PCBs - VeCS UHDI - 20um feature subtractive PCBs - <10um feature additive organic interposers - custom SoCs - board-integrated passives and radio transceivers Will sell quick turn assemblies and factory calibrated RL envs