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Podcast
93
Parker Dillmann  | 

MEP EP#93: Glue A Penny On It

Download: MP3
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Twitter: @MacroFab

Runtime: (01:04:02)

Hosts:
Parker Dillmann
Stephen Kraig

Guest:
N/A

Podcast Notes

  • Episode 100 is coming up! It’ll be a Q&A session – so send in your questions to podcast@macrofab.com
  • 2nd Annual Star Wars Xmas Special Engineering Podcast. Check out the video from last year!
  • Parker
  • Stephen
    • Science Museum Update
      • Video screen that plays animation – in house engineer setting it up and built an Arduino circuit around Stephen’s project
    • DipTrace update 3.2
      • You can now rotate and flip by groups, when making patterns. WOOT!
  • Rapid Fire Opinion (RFO)
    • Solder? What is the best kind? What about Flux?
    • The Amazing $1 Microcontroller – Jay Carlson
      • Best comparison of MCUs I have seen
      • Goes through IDEs, Performance, Peripherals of each IC
    • Alibaba buys into CPU company to support AliOS – Electronics Weekly
      • Alibaba has bought a stake in a Chinese microprocessor manufacturer to promote development of of processors which support Alibaba’s operating system – AliO
      • AliOS has two flavours – called AliOS Cloud Link for cloud computing, and AliOS Things for IoT
  • Visit our Slack Channel and join the conversation in between episodes!
Figure 1: Older prototype of the Jeep Electronic Control stuff. Showing the Large VFD!
Figure 1: Older prototype of the Jeep Electronic Control stuff. Showing the Large VFD
Figure 2: Old Kester 44 solder that Parker has 20lbs of. Set for life.
Figure 2: Old Kester 44 solder that Parker has 20lbs of. Set for life.

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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