Podcast Notes
Parker
- Going to be doing Webinars for MacroFab.
- How MFs tools make you a better electrical engineer and supply chain manager
- Learning AutoDesk Fusion360
- Getting pretty good
- Learning from Youtube and Stephen
- Can be almost as fast and proficient as Parker was in Sketchup
- Getting pretty good
- Braze it 420
- Learning to braze brass radiators and steel gas tanks
- Make sure there is no gas fumes!
Stephen
- CNC
- Trying to buck the standard
- Jointer/Planer -> table -> electrical work -> table saw -> torsion box -> gantry restoration -> new spindle
- New 220V for the following
- Welding
- Brewing
- CNC machine
- Fermentation controller
- Audibles on some design characteristics
- Switches/encoders
- Probably going to go with wiring instead of all PCB mount
- Footprints for Solid State Relays
Rapid Fire Opinion
- Raspberry pi 4 release fixes the USB problem
- This is being treated as a “design for manufacturability” change
- Lumped along with some silkscreen changes to avoid solder bridging and the SD card voltage switch moving
- Why not fully announce this?
- Chinese Tariff Exemption for 2- and 4-layer PCBs
- Valid until Aug. 7, 2020
- Fisher & Paykel PCB Silkscreen Design
- The sad faces are where the hand insert components go
- If any sad faces are showing, the operator hasn’t finished their job.
Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!