Annika O'Brien, Houston Robotics Club, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, Nerd Cred, Podcast, Symbiobots, TX/RX
Podcast
86
Parker Dillmann  | 

MEP EP#86: Don’t Try This At Home

Download: MP3
RSS Feed: Link
Twitter: @MacroFab

Runtime: (01:57:16)

Hosts:
Parker Dillmann
Stephen Kraig

Guest:
Annika O’Brien
YouTube
Make Robots, Not War

Podcast Notes

  • Houston Hardware and Engineering Meetup is next Wednesday. RSVP today!
  • Annika O’Brien
    • Founder and driving force behind both the LA Robotics Club and Houston Robotics Club
    • Focus on creating communities for people of all ages who have an interest in learning more about Robotics and Electronics
  • Houston Robotics Club
    • Working on getting 501c3 status (non-profit)
    • Will provide outreach and free mentor-ship programs to any child interested in robotics
    • About 100 active users
    • Shout Out to TX/RX for generally being awesome and hosting the Robotics Club
  • Landmine Tracking Robotics
    • Symbiobots
    • Communicates with rats that can smell TNT
    • Piper the robot sees the rat’s dance and will tag the landmine
    • Will eventually drill into landmines to inject environmentally safe gel that will biodegrade TNT
Figure 1: Annika O'brien
Figure 1: Annika O’brien
Figure 2: Drawing of Piper the robot.
Figure 2: Drawing of Piper the robot.

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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