Christian Peeters, Credit Card, Credit Card Skimmers, electronics podcast, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, Patrick Traynor, Skim Reaper

Podcast

211

Parker Dillmann | February 12, 2020

MEP EP#211: Credit Card Vigilantes – Skim Reaper

Podcast Notes

Patrick Traynor

CEO of Skim Reaper
The Dasburg Family Preeminent Chair in Engineering in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida

Christian Peeters

CTO of Skim Reaper
Ph.D Student in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida

Skim Reaper

What is Skim Reaper
- How does it work?
- Behind the name
  - Did you know that when your PCB’s first hit our production line we thought you were manufacturing a skimming device!
- Swipe vs Chip
How did you start? What was the beginning of the project?
The hardware itself
- Form Factor challenges
- Engineering Roadblocks you had to overcome?
Growing your business
- What is your method for getting media coverage to spread the news about the Skim Reaper device
- Plans for future growth and market expansion
So if someone detects a skimmer..what do they do?

Patrick Traynor, CEO of Skim Reaper

Christian Peeters, CTO of Skim Reaper

The Skim Reaper in Action!

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.