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.
Stephen’s base for the CNC he is rebuilding. Has the computer and VFD mounted.
Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!