MEP EP#118: Battlestar Gallactic Grounds

Podcast Notes

• Stephen
  • Fixing Jerry’s Amp that picks up radio signals
  • The Johnson Noise
  • E34L Tubes
• Parker
  • DAC Article Part 3 Complete
  • DAC fixture parts arrived to finish Part 4 of the article series
  • Details on the MacroFab plans for DefCon 26
  • Gameboy Update
    • Check out the YouTube video from the BenHeck Show
  • Tried out the new Eagle V9
  • PinHeck update on the software side
    • Raspberry Pi GPU Audio Video Programming by Jan Newmarch
• RFO
  • PCB Grounding
    • Star Grounds
    • Plane and Plunge
    • Galactic Grounding
    • Analog devices article on grounding
  • Tiny Arduino + FPGA = Sno
    • Altera MAX10 based development board
    • The MAX10 comes preprogrammed with functions that match the Arduino API
    • These built in modules do the analog to digital conversion, servo control, operate NeoPixels, and a host of other functions
    • HackaDay Article by Al Williams who has been on two previous podcasts: EP#57 and EP#94.
  • Analog-rich MCU shoots for sensor nodes
    • Microchip PIC16F18446
    • ADC can run with the processing core shut-down, waking the core when required
    • You can sign up for a free board here on the Microchip site?
    • MPLAB Xpress PIC16F18446 Evaluation Board
• Announcements
  • Twitter Chat Info
    • May 4th Friday at 1PM CST
  • MacroFab Monthly Electronics Meetup
    • May 23rd 6PM at MacroFab HQ in Houston
    • Brandon Satrom from Particle. Going to give a talk about IoT fundamentals.
  • Houston Hardware Happy Hour
    • May 3rd at Slowpokes
    • Bring hacks and hang out

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