MEP EP#209: A Bad User Experience

Podcast Notes

Parker

Pinotaur REV2 is flipping a machine now
- Light strips using APA-102C-260-NEW
Brew Cart welded up!
- Gotta design a hoist to lift the grain in and out of the mash tun

Stephen

Simulation of the week
- Bandpass with monte Carlo and gaussian tolerance
Fermentation controller
- More Parts!
  - 40A Solid State Relay
    - BEM-14840DA
  - Tactile switch
    - 700SP7M1QEAP2BLKBLK
  - 4×4 tactile keypad
    - ADC reading?
    - RobotDyn Button Keypad 4×4 Module
  - 4×4 membrane style – kind of industrial
    - Yootop 2 pcs 16 Keys Matrix Membrane Switch Keypad Keyboard for Arduino

Rapid Fire Opinion

MagicWolfi from the slack channel asks
- “How is it done in the factory and maybe some ideas what to do at home? This is painful if it is more than a few boards.”
The 5 best arduino projects

Ben and David with the PinoTaur system. Testing it in the depths of the wild wilderness of Wisconsin.

Brewery cart Parker welded up. Made out of 2″ 14AWG box tubing.

Stephen’s simulation of the week for band pass filtering.

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.