Podcast Notes
- August Hardware & Electronics Engineering Meetup by MacroFab & Mouser Electronics event is live! Come grab some food, beer, and socializing if you’re in the Houston area.
- Joseph Broms
- Joe received his B.S. at the University of Illinois in Computer Science
- He has worked in numerous industries including, medical device, security, professional audio, broadcast, and education
- One central theme to Joe’s career is successfully turning ideas into sellable products
- Has worked on many projects ranging from a FDA approved cardiac simulator to a critically acclaimed instrument tuner, APTuner
- Joseph is releasing a product called ProtoBricks on Indiegogo
- Protobricks are LEGO compatible building blocks to lower the entry level of how electronics work
- Purpose is to remove how much ancillary gunk is needed to understand how it works
- It has been Joesph’s hobby for the past seven years with many different revisions
- Mold design and plastics
- LEGO stud pitch is 7.986mm, 2.54mm on solderless breadboard = exact factor of pi difference
- Used modified LEGO bricks as initial tests
- 3D printing has gotten good enough to prototype injection molding
- Electrical Contacts
- Copper tape and sheets pressed into the plastic did not work
- Spring loaded pogo pins everywhere!
- QUANTITY DICTATES EVERYTHING
- Protobricks are LEGO compatible building blocks to lower the entry level of how electronics work
- Stephens Game – Room for of balloons. How do you get rid of them.
- Joseph – Blowtorch
- Stephen – Pull a vacuum on the room
- Parker – Throw cats into the room
- Combination – Flamethrower vacuum cat
Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!