#video #news: #Trump threatens a 25% “secondary tariff” on any country that buys oil or gas from #Venezuela starting April 2; oil is 80% of its exports and 17% of GDP. #USA #politics
200 billion #ARM chips produced as of 02021, half of them Cortex-M, at which point they were 900 ARMs per second.
#video dead-bug soldering an SMD package (a relatively fine pitch LGA) on a prototyping area with superglue. #electronics #hardware
#video of soldering wires on a perfboard for #electronics in inconvenient packages
#video on Turkish Fulbright scholar Rumeysa Ozturk being snatched off the street yesterday in Somerville, MA by masked ICE officers for publishing an editorial in the Tufts Daily opposing #Israel’s invasion of Gaza a year ago. #news #politics #USA
#video on #USA arresting German tourists and permanent residents on entry to the country and detaining them, sometimes for weeks: 34-year-old Fabian Schmidt (incommunicado for 4 days), etc. #politics
#video on #Nighthawk trying to form stable colloid #phase-change #energy-storage #materials with sodium lignosulfonate #toread
#video by #Bugeja on getting piezo buzzers to provide useful haptic feedback by overvolting them to 200V with a TI DRV8662. #electronics #hardware
#video #news on Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing’s Cheung Kong Group selling off #Hutchison Ports’ stock, 43 of 53 major international ports in 23 countries, including the ports at both ends of the #Panama Canal, for US$19 billion, (and there was something about 90% of stock, it’s not clear) to the #USA, suggesting he anticipates war. #politics #China