Happy new week 🤖😊 Last week we got into the electronics side: 🧠 The robot brain (microcontrollers) 📡 How robots sense the world (sensors) Week 3 is about the code ; how robots are actually programmed and taught to make decisions. What's been your favourite so far? Tell us

$AMBQ - THE PUREST BET ON THE ONE VARIABLE THAT GATES PHYSICAL AI — ENERGY PER INFERENCE — BUT THE TAPE ALREADY PAYS FOR A 2028 IT HASN'T SHIPPED Ambiq's moat is sub-threshold silicon — logic that runs below 0.5V for a quadratic, not linear, energy saving — validated by 280M shipped microcontrollers, >80% of them running an AI model on-device. The inflection is real: after deliberately walking away from $1–2 commodity smartband chips (FY25 revenue −4.7% to $72.5M), Q1 FY26 re-accelerated to $25.1M ( 59%) on higher-value Apollo 5 silicon into Garmin, Whoop and Google, with Q2 guided ~ 75%. The catch: at ~$87 it trades ~22× sales, 253% above its $24 IPO and 165% since the canonical bull note at $32 — and by the CFO's own math it needs ~$47M a quarter, roughly double today, just to break even, a 2027–28 event. Mechanism: there is no Moore's Law for batteries, so power-efficient edge compute is the binding constraint for wearables, drones and humanoids — but the Atomiq platform chip that justifies this multiple hasn't shipped a dollar of revenue yet.

(2) 8 Pin Microcontrollers per sense Total 10 Microcontrollers with 8 pins each 80 pin

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The Chinese have a proverb: when You're pointing a finger at someone, three other fingers are pointing back at you at the same time. There was an uproar in Europe after the US imposed an export ban on Anthropic’s models. Meanwhile, our own internal regulations - completely detached from reality - are blocking virtually everything possible. This is precisely what our leading AI expert, Prof. Sankowski, wrote about. The problem lies on our side. EU dumb bureaucrats are already labeling not only models like Fable as “dual use” and “restricted” - it goes much further than that, all the way down to simple oscilloscopes and microcontrollers. I don’t know whose interests these people are serving, but the clear effect of their decisions is the slaughtering of any technological thinking and the technological development of Europe. Let me depict the EU restrictions with a photo:

loop to real time everything here and time to make stuff is going to go to 0 No one is internalizing how microcontrollers and code are going to come together yet

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Title: "Canada confuses grant-review literacy with technical capability recognition." Oh, this sounds a lot like public-sector-adjacent tech grant review in Canada. People in the know will relate: Canadian founders, technicians, technologists, engineers, computer scientists, builders, grant applicants, and anyone who has been filtered through bureaucratic review systems. Some Canadian tech grant programs provide applicants with one-word or one-sentence reviews, if that, even after the applicant spends weeks preparing a serious technical submission package. Actual engineers show up with director-level references from top-tier American tech, real execution history, real product-development experience, and deep technical depth — the kind of experience many reviewers may never have had themselves. Then experienced technical people get reviewed through systems that often reward grant-writing theatre over real technical capability. The review criteria drift away from the thing being built. A microcontroller project should be judged by people who understand microcontrollers. A drone project should be judged by people who understand drones. An autonomous vehicle project should be judged by people who understand autonomy, software, systems engineering, testing, safety, and deployment. Equity, inclusion, accessibility, and Indigenous participation can matter in public programs. But in a technical grant, they should support the technical mission — not replace it. Canada’s mistake is letting administrative categories become substitutes for engineering judgment. When review programs over-weight GBA Plus, EDI, community-benefit language, regional-politics language, and polished social-impact essays, they risk selecting the best grant writer instead of the best builder. Instead, Canada too often builds review systems where the strongest applicant is not the strongest builder. It is the strongest bureaucratic essay-writer. And sometimes, serious external credibility produces disbelief. People in Canada with serious American tech references can be treated as if their experience must be exaggerated, fake, or impossible. “The reference is fake.” “The director never wrote that.” “No one gets references from American tech.” “There are many directors in American tech, so maybe the applicant is overstating what the title means.” That is the mindset problem. The result? It creates the impression that tech grant funds are kept close to the office, recycled through familiar administrative networks, and assigned to people who may have little real training, experience, or operating history inside serious technology companies or real technical projects. Then the public sector wonders why major IT and technology projects become over-budget, delayed, broken, or dependent on endless outside rescue. Maybe one reason is simple: The real technical candidates were rejected before the work even began. The administrators rejected the builders. The builders never developed the ecosystems the country needed. Then future public technology projects became more expensive because Canada had to buy, outsource, patch, or rescue systems that should have been built by a stronger domestic builder class years earlier. Candidates who have actually engaged with American tech directors, software engineers, project managers, board members, engineering leaders, and serious execution environments can end up ignored, filtered out, or quietly avoided because their experience looks “too much” for the local review culture. That is how a country accidentally builds a grant-management class instead of a technology-building class. Canada does not have an innovation shortage. It has a builder-recognition problem.

A huge majority of people who say they want a car with ZERO TECH don't actually mean that. What they mean is they want a car from the late 80's or early 90's, when we were using microcontrollers to manage fuel injection, ignition timing and transmission shifting. We don't want full-tilt operating systems, modems, etc.

EV Value Chain Architecture & Core Bottlenecks A. Power Electronics & Battery Management Systems (BMS) The Complexity: Translating raw DC current into regulated, variable AC phase power requires complex algorithms running on high-power microcontrollers. Managing thermal runways during rapid ambient temperature shifts requires edge computing at the cell level. Moat Status: High technical entry barriers; highly sticky client relationships due to extensive testing and validation timelines. B. EV Thermal Management Systems (TMS) The Complexity: Indian ambient temperatures frequently exceed 40°C. Fast charging generates massive internal cell heat. Moving from passive air-cooling to active liquid-immersion cooling requires ultra-precise, leak-free aluminum chilling plates, electronic water pumps, and specialized cooling valves. Moat Status: Absolute bottleneck zone. A single failure bricking a multi-lakh battery pack gives top-tier component fabricators enormous pricing power. C. Electric Drivetrains & Precision Gears The Complexity: EV motors operate efficiently at 10,000 to 15,000 RPM, requiring precise reduction gearboxes to bring wheel speeds down safely. This demands absolute micrometric precision in gear tooth grinding to minimize transmission noise (NVH) and energy loss. Moat Status: High capital-expenditure barriers; protected by complex metallurgical casting and finishing secrets.

No longer true with Linux on most robots. One can update the various microcontrollers connected from that as a hub.

The market is giving incredible opportunities... BUT That doesn't mean you can just throw out a dart and make money This is still an incredibly thematic market that rewards strength and leadership If you are underperforming, its likely because you are not trading the RIGHT stocks Here's a list of the strongest themes I'm watching: Semis: $INTC $ARM $MRVL $AMD $DELL $ALAB $QCOM $TSM Semi parts: $ACLS $AMAT $KLAC $LRCX Semi test systems: $AEHR $ONTO $FORM $COHU $KEYS $AMKR $TER Microcontrollers: $ADI $AMBQ $MCHP $TXN $STM Memory: $DRAM $SNDK $MU $STX $WDC Laser/optics: $OUST $POET $COHR $CRDO $VIAV $AEVA $VPG $APH $VECO Data center cooling: VRT MOD FIX JCI CARR Cybersecurity: PANW CRWD NET FTNT Data/Cloud NBIS APLD INOD HUT IREN CIFR CORZ WULF CLSK Banks: BAC GS JPM MS C Healthcare: OSCR HNGE UNH JNJ HTFL Energy: HYLN TE FCEL BE These are the stocks ill be focusing on in the next few months!

can I have a high dollar YC job? alternately you can fund my American microcontrollers startup

btw the "Dream Machine" is another old forgotten tech of Hypnagogic interfaces. if you're serious about Hyperstition, Platonic Khora and communing with the Machine Elves, then you're already asking AI to give you a build list to construct one. With today's Maker hobby subculture, advanced microcontrollers and the flood of cheap electronics components from China, building a DIY Dream Machine has never been easier.

Well it wasnt a raspberry pi but i watched a video of a guy installing linux on an arduino micro computer (not the microcontrollers they usually make but an ARM computer) and running half life and portal on it

exactly at that time, factories used PLCs to control their production lines I think it’s time to bring that capability to developing countries again but this time powered by AI and microcontrollers

Pins are the physical metal connectors protruding from components which is ICs, microcontrollers, or sensors❤️☺️ 👉It serve as the interface for electricity and data signals to flow between components allowing them to communicate and function together when

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Many politicians, "digital safety" activists, and general members of the public think there are clear differences between the computers of end users and social media platforms, and that we can legislate accordingly to solve alleged problems they describe. Websites are just computers you can connect to and exchange data with using a set of communication protocols. All information consumed from any other computer by an end user is relevant to one's relations in society. Whether professional or recreational, they pertain to events relevant to the society we are a part of, and our status as citizens living in that society. Particularly now, the information exchanged through applications used for any professional or recreational activity bears the characteristics associated with well known social media platforms, as the type of data and manner in which it is presented is personalized. That doesn't even mean "personalized" in the sense of a public user profile, but in the sense that the information is useful to the consumer, and affords the means to make choices: - Target data - Meta data - How it presents - Addition of media This remains true not just of popular social media platforms, but of any modern user application that sends and receives data over a network. There are many ways that different permutations describing the manner in which any application behaves and is used can be made to fit moniker of "social media". Even less-immersive applications, such as those for creating remote shell sessions, can be considered as exposing participants to any information liable to be on any computer. Remote virtual desktop technologies became sufficiently advanced years ago whereby anyone could assume identities remotely, adding greater potential to circumvent standard authentication. A child can encounter the types of information of concern, activists and politicians warn about, through the general use of digital devices, even without accessing any of the popular platforms. The chief concern ostensibly sought by digital safety advocates is the possible information presented to the child, the habits that might be adopted by the child through the use of digital devices, and how these affect a child's development, mental health, and ability to integrate with society. It is impossible to implement a thorough practice that addresses these concerns without knowing who is using or in the vicinity of a digital device. As embedded systems and small microcontrollers have become more sophisticated, this increasingly means the raw components themselves, rather than certain more polished and complex products (mobile phones, gaming/personal computers). Authenticating with ever-smaller components is something which can be done, and something which we'll perpetually have to grapple with as technology continues to improve.

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