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Circuit Break Podcast #149

PEE-can Verse puh-KAHN – Scaling up Electronics with KINETIC

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December 5, 2018, Episode #149

Matt and Jeff of KINETIC join the podcast to discuss scaling up manufacturing of their IoT wearable.
  • Matt Glazer
    • Lead electrical engineer at KINETIC
    • Building IoT wearables for the industrial workforce by day and building electric long-boards by night
    • Obsessed with space and can talk hours on end about the current state of space technology
  • Jeff Doong
    • Head of manufacturing at KINETIC
    • In charge of making sure current products are manufactured correctly and new products are designed to efficiently scale
    • If he wasn’t at KINETIC, he’d be a farmer back home in California
  • KINETIC
    • What is KINETIC?
      • Last time we had KINETIC on the podcast it was episode #53 with Aditya and Mijael. What has changed since February 2017?
      • Product has a name now. Now longer called the device.
    • Expand a bit more on what you two do at KINETIC?
    • Any major engineering challenges yall had to overcome since the last prototype?
    • KINETIC has been expanding to scale up manufacturing. What were some of the engineering changes needed to do so?
    • Supply Chain management?
    • Case Study on the MacroFab website

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Jeff Doong and Matt Glazer of KINETIC. In an ideal world Matt will send Jeff to terraform Mars.

Jeff Doong and Matt Glazer of KINETIC. In an ideal world Matt will send Jeff to terraform Mars.

The “GORE VENT” that enables pressure equalization between the outside and inside of the enclosure. Keeps the relative waterproof rating of the enclosure intact.

The “GORE VENT” that enables pressure equalization between the outside and inside of the enclosure. Keeps the relative waterproof rating of the enclosure intact.

KINETIC’s Lego style assembly instructions. If only more product designs had these!

KINETIC’s Lego style assembly instructions. If only more product designs had these!

About the Hosts

Parker Dillmann
  Parker Dillmann

Parker is an Electrical Engineer with backgrounds in Embedded System Design and Digital Signal Processing. He got his start in 2005 by hacking Nintendo consoles into portable gaming units. The following year he designed and produced an Atari 2600 video mod to allow the Atari to display a crisp, RF fuzz free picture on newer TVs. Over a thousand Atari video mods where produced by Parker from 2006 to 2011 and the mod is still made by other enthusiasts in the Atari community.

In 2006, Parker enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin as a Petroleum Engineer. After realizing electronics was his passion he switched majors in 2007 to Electrical and Computer Engineering. Following his previous background in making the Atari 2600 video mod, Parker decided to take more board layout classes and circuit design classes. Other areas of study include robotics, microcontroller theory and design, FPGA development with VHDL and Verilog, and image and signal processing with DSPs. In 2010, Parker won a Ti sponsored Launchpad programming and design contest that was held by the IEEE CS chapter at the University. Parker graduated with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Spring of 2012.

In the Summer of 2012, Parker was hired on as an Electrical Engineer at Dynamic Perception to design and prototype new electronic products. Here, Parker learned about full product development cycles and honed his board layout skills. Seeing the difficulties in managing operations and FCC/CE compliance testing, Parker thought there had to be a better way for small electronic companies to get their product out in customer's hands.

Parker also runs the blog, longhornengineer.com, where he posts his personal projects, technical guides, and appnotes about board layout design and components.

Stephen Kraig
  Stephen Kraig

Stephen Kraig is a component engineer working in the aerospace industry. He has applied his electrical engineering knowledge in a variety of contexts previously, including oil and gas, contract manufacturing, audio electronic repair, and synthesizer design. A graduate of Texas A&M, Stephen has lived his adult life in the Houston, TX, and Denver, CO, areas.

Stephen has never said no to a project. From building guitar amps (starting when he was 17) to designing and building his own CNC table to fine-tuning the mineral composition of the water he uses to brew beer, he thrives on testing, experimentation, and problem-solving. Tune into the podcast to learn more about the wacky stuff Stephen gets up to.

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!

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