MacroFab Circuit Break Podcast

Circuit Break Podcast by MacroFab Will No Longer Continue

We've truly enjoyed every moment of bringing this content to you, and we're incredibly grateful for your support and engagement. While we won't be producing new episodes, all of our previous episodes will remain available on your favorite platforms for you to revisit anytime. Thank you once again for being a part of our journey.

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Conductive Cuisine

We'll explore an in-depth study conducted by Seth Jenkins, Neil LaTourette, and Brendan Liverman on how boiling time affects hot dog conductivity.

August 9, 2024

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Rotary Alarm System

Do not adjust your podcast broadcast device. What you are hearing is a rotary alarm system. This siren denotes the beginning of episode 200!

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High Voltage Gyrators and KiCad Plugins

Stephen and Parker discuss Equalizers for High Voltage signal paths and ultra rare Atari 2600 Hardware. Also, what is the Apple H1 Chip?

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Digital Razorblades

It has been a couple weeks since a Parker and Stephen episode but they didn't get any electronic projects done! Somehow 1 hour of audio still exists.

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Designing in Color – Greg Paulsen on 3D Printing

Greg Paulsen of Xometry rejoins the podcast to discuss the specifications, designing for scale, and design considerations for 3D Printing technologies.

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Foamy Power Factors – Electrolytic Capacitors with KEMET

Ivan Quiroz and Suzana Jankuloska of KEMET join the podcast to discuss the inner workings of Electrolytic Capacitors and reading Datasheets.

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Mach 5 Sandpaper – MIT Rocket Team

Charlie Garcia and Luka Govedič come onto the podcast to discuss being rocket scientists and the MIT Rocket Team's History, Goals, and Future.

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Adult Supervision Not Required – Tilt 5 With Jeri

Jeri Ellsworth joins the podcast to discuss the development of Augmented Reality technology and the process of bringing consumer devices to market.

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Robots Have Fall Damage

Matthew Prater joins Parker and Stephen to discuss his student's innovation projects and antimatter positrons.

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The Fourth Rule of Robotics

Parker's repair of the Tigershark seems to be working fine and Stephen learns how to read a Digital Datasheet. Also, only 8 more episodes before 200!

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Fork Lift Adventures Narrated by Daniel Hienzsch

Daniel Hienzsch of Rheingold Heavy and Manufacturing Reports joins Parker and Stephen to discuss PCB manufacturing and low cost vendor choices.

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Sealed Tigersharks

Stephen's finally upgrades his toolkit to include a Digital Logic Analyzer and Parker repairs a Tigershark. Don't worry it's not a real shark.

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Not Even My Final Form: Jeff Garoon on Industrial Design

Jeff Garoon joins Parker and Stephen to discuss the design, testing, and regulations of creating low volume Industrial IoT devices.

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Design Contest – Useless Machines Wrap Up

The Useless Machine contest has just closed. Thank you Mouser for sponsoring our contest and our judges! The Podcast Favorite gets chosen!

Removing the waterworld from product development

Removing the Waterworld from Product Development

Mike Geyer of Fictiv joins Parker and Stephen to discuss the State of Hardware Report, Tariff Engineering, the Production Gap, and Lean Manufacturing.

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So You Want To Eat Electrons?

Stephen's non analog projects starts! He is designing a Fermentation Controller for brewing. There is also a proposed Community project!

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A Joe Grand MFG Adventure: What You are Designed to Do

The KINGPIN returns after two years to discuss off-shore versus on-shore manufacturing, Tariffs and Chinese Customs, and Defcon Badge designs.

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Like a Satellite Out of Hell

Parker and Stephen gear up for DefCon 27 and discuss how custom transformers can change design philosophy.

Feel the hum

Feel the Hum

Zapp Brannigan returns on the podcast to discuss the latest in AND!XOR #Badgelife Design Elements!

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The Wireless Research Center

Gerard Hayes and Shruthi Soora discuss the mission of The Wireless Research Center and FCC Pre-Cert Testing.

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Greg Paulsen: Pizza is the Way to an Engineer’s Heart

Greg Paulsen is the leader of the Application Engineering team at Xometry and plays a vital role in vetting new technologies and materials.

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Chrissy Meyer and Personal Errata Datasheets

Chrissy Meyer’s invests in deeply technical teams that are solving problems in robotics, hardware, industrial automation, AI, and machine learning.

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Mach 3 Cheeseburgers

Mach 3 Cheeseburgers, Simulations for the PinoTaur mosfet drivers, and more on this episode of the MacroFab Podcast.

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Little Shop of Transformer Horror

Josh Rozier starts his design of a power transformer, the DOOM SAO gets more code, and the MacroAmp is 90% done!

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Leeroy Jenkins Transistor

Parker gets test results from his APA-102C experiments and Stephen wraps up REV2 of the MacroAmp!

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