Weekly Roundup, Episode 7: Watchdog Timers, Counterfeit Components and Custom Hybrid Boards

Each week, we dive in deeper into what's gone on in the tincubator through the week in 10 minutes or less. Our topics are driven by conversations we have on social media, driven by the posts we share of our day-to-day business operations.

Topics

In this episode, we're chatting about:

• Watchdog timers - what they are, why they're useful and how they help in hardware projects

• Talking about supply chain issues and the global shortage and how it's impacted our project timelines in 2 majors ways, including custom board redesigns and dealing with counterfeit components, which is just the absolute worst

• Chatting about our custom hybrid PCB, stepping through the major components of the board and talking about the cool way we've set up provisioning and serialization

Watch the Video

Links

TikToks:

Assembling Custom Hybrid Boards: Watchdog Timer: https://www.tiktok.com/@tincubate/video/7020373048649862405

Counterfeit Components: https://www.tiktok.com/@tincubate/video/7020882488536927494

Provisioning Custom Hybrid Boards: https://www.tiktok.com/@tincubate/video/7020737041755294981

More about the Custom Hybrid Board: https://www.tiktok.com/@tincubate/video/7021590484455869701

Assembling the Custom Hybrid Board: https://www.tiktok.com/@tincubate/video/7018501461277461766

Parts:

SIMCOM 7080G: https://www.simcom.com/product/SIM7080G.html

Hologram SIMs: https://www.hologram.io/

NM 180310 Feather: https://www.tincubate.com/nmi

Mbed OS: https://os.mbed.com/mbed-os/

Ambiq Micro Apollo 3 Blue: https://ambiq.com/apollo3-blue/

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