MEP EP#102: 8 Bit Rupee Wallets

Podcast Notes

• Stephen
  • Alternative uses for assembly layers
    • Assembly, document, and mechanical layers
    • “It’s a way for us electrical engineers to feel like a mechanical engineer”

• Parker
  • HackADay IO talk
    • Friday, January 12, 2018, 12:00 pm PST
    • “The moment they invent smell-o-vision, this podcast would be done”
  • MEP101 DSO138 Update
    • STM32F103
    • Widely cloned
    • If your cocktail of silicone is a little off, you’ll be okay
    • Silicon actually change as the year goes around (according to a professor of Stephen)
      • “The chip just decides only to run on Saturdays”
    • Legit STM32F103’s are $2.36 in QTY
      • Can get “questionably sourced “ units for under $1
  • OctoPrint
    • Use a Raspberry Pi to control your 3D printer
    • You can load gcode wirelessly up to the Pi with SSH tunnel on browser
    • Best open source project parker has come across
    • Monoprice Ultimate 3D printer
      • Had to set up bod rate manually
      • Webcam setup
  • Printoid 
    • Access OctoPrint over the internet

• Rapid Fire Opinion (R.F.O.)
  • Dragonfly 2020 Pro
    • Additive PCB printing
  • Google shuts down its CES booth because it’s not waterproof
    • People said it was one of the better booths there
  • Vishay VOR High-Performance Solid State Relays
    • Low turn-on current at 0.25 mA
      • Does both AC and DC only
    • 400V 140mA
    • What is the application to maximize this part?

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