Welcome back everyone! This week on the MacroFab Roundup: Naughty AIs, Implementing USB Type-C, Finding the nearest Cheeseburgers, and a Crash Course in Beginner Electronics.
Interesting Links and Articles
- The Naughty AIs That Gamed The System
- A list of machine learning algorithms that instead of learning what is intended the AI is doing exactly what it is told to do
- A good primer on the importance of the data set used to train machine learning algorithms and AIs
- Similar to the paperclip maximizer
- Low-cost implementation of USB Type-C
- Application note from Texas Instruments
- How to implement USB Type-C into an exiting device with minimal design changes
- Take a Video Crash Course in Beginner Electronics
- Make produced a series of videos featuring Collin Cunningham
- Covers the basic electrical components, tools, and processes
- Interesting USB Type-C Connector
- This USB Type-C connector only has the pins for implementing USB 2.0 data speeds
- Typical USB Type-C connectors have under pad connections and small lead spacing which require different PCB specifications sometimes, this part avoids that
- Datasheet
- Cheeseburger Compass
- A raspberry pi project that uses geolocation data for cheeseburger restaurants and displays the distance to the nearest one to your location
- Learning from Failure: QFN Package Corner Problem
- Some QFN packaged parts have contacts that exit the side of the part
- Care must be taken that these contacts don’t get soldered
MacroFab Engineering Podcast
This week on MEP EP #146: the TechHOUNDS – Derek Fronek and John Waidner discuss the FIRST FRC group the TechHOUNDS.
MacroFab IRL Events
- Hardware & Electronics Engineering Meetup by MacroFab & Mouser Electronics
- Octavo Systems
- IEEE
- November 28th at 6PM