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Runtime: (34:43)
Hosts:
Parker Dillmann
Stephen Kraig
Guest:
N/A
Podcast Notes
- The next Hardware and Electronics Engineering Meetup page is live and will be on June 28th. Please RSVP if you plan on attending!
- The Stanford ValBal launched again with avionics components from MacroFab! You can see a live video on our Facebook page from the June 15th launch, and as always, track it with this site. Also check out episode 64 of the MEP where we have Sasha Maldonado and Paige Brown of the Standford Student Space Initiative!
- Parker
- Tested a new serial LED board for the pinball platform
- Finishing up writing the last of the EFM8 articles that Parker started last October
- Stephen
- Synth works but doesn’t.
- Not getting ACF, something isn’t biased just right
- Stephen will rip out some strip board and create an off board filter
- Final version will have two envelopes
- The current envelope works but Stephen doesn’t like it
- Mutable Instruments Shruthi 1 and a Video of how it sounds.
- Synth works but doesn’t.
- Pick Of the Week (POW)
- PD Buddy Sink : USB Power Delivery for everyone – Hackaday.io Projects
- Built by Clayton Hobbs
- Smart power jack that plugs into Power Delivery enabled power sources
- Tell it what voltage and current you need and it talks to the to any USB PD power supply to get you the juice
- Internet of Fidget Spinners – HackADay
- Built by Matthias
- ESP8285 for communication
- Accelerometer to measure wobble and an optical switch to measure the rotation speed
- POV – persistence of vision for graphics
- Project Page
- PD Buddy Sink : USB Power Delivery for everyone – Hackaday.io Projects
- Rapid Fire Opinion (RFO)
- Worlds Heaviest Weight – Veritasium
- How do you measure big forces accurately? Rocket Engines that produce 33 million netwons of force.
- Calibrating huge force transducer with the world’s heaviest weight!
- Have to take in account the air displaced by the weights.
- Does the Moon affect it?
- Peratech wins place in most advanced gaming mouse – Electronics Weekly
- First mouse with Force -Sensitive Analog buttons.
- Swiftpoint-z-mouse
- Won three CES 2017 innovation awards
- Includes an accelerometer and a gyroscope
- SP-200-10 Sensor
- QTC® SP Sensors are pressure sensitive membrane switches.
- Made with Elastomers dubbed ‘quantum tunneling composites’ (QTCs)
- LG Display Quality Assurance Report – Parker’s new monitor packaging
- Test report for Parker’s new monitor.
- Worlds Heaviest Weight – Veritasium
Are you interested in seeing a blog series for the synth we’re working on? Let us know!



Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!