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I guess 2018. I learned about them relatively recently and IMHO they're doing a pretty darn good job.

I was fortunate to read a preprint of Brand's latest. It's magnificent.

How and why do things fail? What are the cultures that lead to long-lasting products?

The undercurrent here is that Brand is behind the 10,000 year clock and has a vested interest in making things last a long time.

This book is an exploration of the world of things, how they break, and how people fix them. It's a huge effort, and Part One is right. He's been posting further work on Twitter from Part Two.

He included some sword fighting manuals that I sent that we think are the earliest written instruction guide.

We loved writing them, too! Traffic to the photo teardowns dropped and has been replaced by video. If you can help us figure out how to get people to pay attention to long-form articles again, we're all ears!

Thanks for the feedback! Fellow Tennessean here so I'm a bit embarrassed. I fixed the Make your voice heard embed (we removed a CallPower integration).

I'm working on fixing the letter now.

We built this tech when having five or six states with bills was exciting. Now, 50 states times two chambers times sometimes two or three bills has become a whole thing to keep track of it all.

Keeping all of these bills up to date across 50 states that change every year is quite the project. It's a pretty manual process right now, alas. I'd love to automate it.

Everyone else: please thread any bill year mismatch / other issues you find here, and I'll fix them!

The Toyota Sienna is the only minivan with all-wheel drive, which matters in cold climates or for the more adventerous families. It's built on the same chassis as the Highlander.

Hot tweezers is a fun idea we've been talking about. How would you like to see it implemented?

Yes, we really love the cap. It instantly safes the iron when you're done.

We'll post more documentation on the serial interface, it's pretty straightforward. A temperature control program would be no problem.

Thanks for the feedback! The storage cap indeed makes a huge difference when you have to do something quickly and then put the iron away.

In our testing, we rarely need to change temperatures. I think our algorithm does a better job of responding to the power load and flowing heat into the material than other irons. Of course, if you're changing solder then you'll need to change the temperature setting.

We built the web interface with mobile in mind. We just need a mobile browser that supports web serial. Someone else posted a WebUSB polyfill, and I'm going to check that out tomorrow.

The cap has a magnet on it that auto-homes so that really isn't a risk.

The Power Station has a 55 Watt Hour battery, which is where most of the cost comes from. It doubles as a battery bank for your phone or laptop, or any other USB-C devices in your life.

We're talking with Digikey! Stay tuned.

Preorders start today and will ship on October 15.

We didn't lock down the firmware on the Power Station, so go right ahead!