Oxide and Friends
Oxide and Friends
Oxide Computer Company
Raiding the Minibar
1 hour 52 minutes Posted Apr 1, 2025 at 2:00 pm.
Intro
Backplane
Switch Cabling
Mating Pins
"Firewood"
Mating Pins mk2
K.2 "Kludge.2"
K.2 v2 "40% less kludge"
Minibar overview
Sidecar QSFP
The "Rotisserie"
Minibar Layout
Minibar Altium Render
More Minibar
Minibar backend
Minibar reverse view
Minibar top view
Minibar lite
Minibar lite in situ
Minibar bringup
Magwire rework
Dummy PCB
Wrapping up
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Show notes

Much of the work at Oxide goes into hardware and software used to build and test the eventual product. Bryan and Adam were joined by Ian, Doug, and Nathanael to talk about "Minibar", a rig for connecting up an Oxide server (code name: Gimlet) for manufacturing and internal use. Triumphs and catastrophes including stabbing a connector with a guide pin and bringup mishaps!

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Ian Sobering, Doug Wibben, and Nathanael Huffman,

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