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Oxide and Friends

For Want of a Resistor

Sep 16, 2026 · 1h 24m

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When the supply chain crunch catches up with you, sometimes a tiny resistor the size of a fleck of pepper is the difference between a world-class computer and... e-waste. Members of the Oxide operations and electrical engineering teams join Bryan and Adam to discuss how close we came to stopping production, for want of a resistor. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , speakers included Robert "RFK" Keith , Eric Aasen , Scott Tagwerker, and Steve Tuck . Previously, on Oxide and Friends: OxF s06e12 - Rooting for the Home Team with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel OxF s06e06 - When Nine Nines Isn't Enough OxF s02e12 - More Tales from the Bringup Lab Some of the topics we hit on, in…