MEP EP#82: Make electrons flow right?

Podcast Notes

August Hardware & Electronics Engineering Meetup by MacroFab & Mouser Electronics event is live!
- Wednesday August 30th in Houston, Texas
- This month’s topic is Lean Manufacturing and Product Design
- Stephen will be giving a talk on “How to Design Electronics with Lean Manufacturing in Mind”
- Guests Scott Hansen and Eric Benzenhoefer of The Idea Tank will be there as well
- We did a podcast with them a couple weeks ago on MEP EP#77
- Come grab some food, beer, and socializing if you’re in the Houston area
Parker
- New EFM8 Article
  - Covers Simplicity Studio and how to get a blinking LED to work!
  - Will be out on August 30th
Stephen
- Synth
  - Red Letter Day! First MEP project complete
  - Parker made the enclosure out of curly maple
  - Mullet Synth: Business in front, Party in the back
  - Ramp pulse, linear wave, needs to be super fast, super accurate
    - Stephen just dead bugged it
  - Other MEP episodes that feature the Synth
- Been with MacroFab for two years now!
- Resources for Synth design
POW
- Project 54/74
  - Seeks to document 54xx/74xx-series logic chips and subfamilies by imaging and annotating their dies and tracing out their schematics
RFO
- Hurricane Harvey coming to Texas
  - How does an electronic engineer or maker survive the apocalypse of no power?

Front of the Synth Stephen designed and made.

Rear of the Synth Stephen designed and made. Still needs some tidying up.

Stephens Spiderman Deadbug Schematic. This makes everything work!

We are bracing for the avocado of doom.

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.