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Podcast

118

Parker Dillmann | May 2, 2018

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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PCB star grounding method to the extreme! Awesome looking.

DAC Test Fixture. Will be featured in the DAC Part 4 Article that should be out in the coming weeks.

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

About The Hosts

Parker Dillmann is MacroFab's Co-Founder, and Lead ECE with backgrounds in Embedded System Design, and Digital Signal Processing. He got his start in 2005 by hacking Nintendo consoles into portable gaming units. He also runs the blog, longhornengineer.com, where he posts his personal projects, technical guides, and appnotes about board layout design and components. Parker graduated with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas.

Stephen Kraig began his electronics career by building musical oriented circuits in 2003. Stephen is an avid guitar player and, in his down time, manufactures audio electronics including guitar amplifiers, pedals, and pro audio gear. Stephen graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University.