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Parker Dillmann  | 

MEP EP#229: Get Cute This Weekend

Podcast Notes

Parker

  • Brewery Lives!
    • Test boil and Process
    • Issues with the current iteration of the brewery
    • What is next
      • Take Inventory of Brew Equipment
      • Spare parts
      • Storage on cart
      • Clean and Fire up Fermentation chamber
      • Clean the brewery
      • Ingredients
      • BREW
    • Future?
      • Motorized valves to simplify the fluid transfer process
      • Drains at bottom of vessels?
      • Better way to change set points on the PID controllers?
  • A/C window unit Wine Chiller
    • Parker Kool 2800
    • Issues and gotchas for future

Stephen

  • My (Stephen’s) Jelly Project
    • Cutting panels tomorrow
    • Two cncs at Stephen’s disposal
      • That is unfair!
    • Inkscape/Corel Draw for component layout
    • Fusion 360 for CAD/CAM
Parker's brewery in its almost completed form! Pre test boil.

Parker’s brewery in its almost completed form! Pre test boil.

 

Inside the electrical box. Breakers all over! Even had to put a din rail on the cover to fit everything.

Inside the electrical box. Breakers all over! Even had to put a din rail on the cover to fit everything.

 

Boil achieved!

Boil achieved!

 

The Parker Kool 2800 which is a hacked up Whipser Kool 2800 with a $100 A/C window unit.

The Parker Kool 2800 which is a hacked up Whipser Kool 2800 with a $100 A/C window unit.

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.

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