MEP EP #159: Big Mattress is Coming For You

Podcast Notes

• Parker
  • Wrote an article about the past three years of the MacroFab Engineering Podcast
  • Chime Module
    • MC14069UB
      • Hex inverter
    • MC14001UB
      • Quad NOR gate
    • Other Circuit components
  • What is the best way to reverse engineer a PCB?
  • Ray Alert
• Stephen
  • Rebuilt and rewired 3 amplifiers
  • Soldano clone went from being somewhat noisy to virtually nothing
    • Very interesting grounding scheme
    • Lots of dos and donts
  • Utracer tube testing
  • The Macro Amp
    • Nu Tube
  • Always remember to over buy parts
• Game idea?
  
  • Zork derivative game that comes on a “com stick”
• RFO
  • Power Supply Design for Clean Jazz Amps
    • This is a cool blog about building power supplies
    • Vasily Ivanenko
    • Lots of images and good analysis
    • Heavy focus on component selection and managing grounds
  • Bees can do simple arithmetic, offering hop to low-gate-count AI
    • Now that is kinda click baity
  • Flow Chart on Electrical Component Selection
    • This accurately describes part buying for personal projects

MacroFab will be at SXSW. We are teaming up with Particle.io to put together a Hardware Happy Hour. It will take place on Friday March 8th from 4PM until 8PM at the super cool Jester King Brewery. Check the show notes for full details and to RSVP. Join us for lite bites and refreshments, network with fellow Hardware nerds and kick off SXSW.

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