Parker Dillmann | November 9, 2017 | AliOS, Amazing $1 Microcontroller, electronics podcast, flux, Houston Museum of Natural Science, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, Podcast, solder

Podcast

MEP EP#93: Glue A Penny On It

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
- Update on the Jeep Electronics
  - LM22678TJ-5.0/NOPB
    - 5V switcher regulator with 5A capacity
    - Used Ti Webench to design it
  - ADP3338AKCZ-3.3-RL
    - 3.3V LDO Linear Regulator with 1A capacity
  - CU40045-UW1J
    - 40 x 4 VFD
    - Propeller code for driving this display
  - Keep Tabs on this project on github!
- Decent cheap toggle switches on Amazon
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.

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.