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.

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Measuring up your interview questions

Measuring up Your Interview Questions

Interview questions, love em or hate em it is all something we have to go through. How does your technique measure up to Stephen's and Parker's?

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What Engineer’s Seek

What is the comet grounding technique? Is it actually made up by someone on twitter? Maybe? Find out on this episode of the MacroFab Podcast.

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The Drop Ship Shuffle

The supply chain crunch is effecting more industries then the electronic industry and is exposing the drop ship shuffle of retailers and inventory.

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Work to Automate the Work

On this episode, Parker discusses his current adventure in testing and qualifying ratcheting wrenches and Stephen finally learns the magic of python!

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Strategic Component Sourcing with Cody Endlich

Cody Endlich joins Stephen and Parker to discuss electrical component distribution, counterfeit parts, risk mitigation, and MacroFab joining the ERAI.

When an alien craps

When an Alien Craps

The things that change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. An Alien craps in Space and subsequently this podcast gets made.

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Chunk 2 Chunk Current Returns

This week we have PCB ground layouts and what to thing about in regards to current returns, elevated inductors, and should XYRS have a Z component?

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A Rant About How Magnets Work

Topics include StarWars, NASA, Magnets, Perpetual Energy, and Virtual Grounding.

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Plastic Deg-Ra-Dation with Scott Hansen of Retro-Brite

Our guest this week is Scott Hansen, Founder of Retro-Brite which restores yellowed plastics by reversing the chromophores degradation.

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Another Tool for Your Toolbox

Is it time for Stephen to finally get a 3D printer and join the maker revolution? Parker and Stephen discuss how engineers use 3D printers this week.

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Armchair Military Strategists

How do we secure the global electronics supply chain while also preventing World War III? Stephen and Parker discuss TSMC and Taiwan this week.

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The Gamification of PCB Assembly

One faithful evening, Parker received a marketing email about gamifying the MacroFab platform and thought it might be a good podcast topic.

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2022 New Year Engineering Resolutions

With 2021 behind us it is time to look forward to 2022. Will Parker and Stephen cross off all there new year resolutions or will they be forgotten?

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Perpetual Prototypes

Did Stephen and Parker complete there holiday projects as mentioned in last weeks episode or will they slip further behind with feature creep?

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The Bad Hunch

Six times! Y'all let us talk about Star Wars 6 years in a row! Roz, Hyr0n, Stephen, Chris, and Parker discuss the latest in Star Wars media and tech.

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Removing The Barriers

Electronic bench equipment for hardware development. Stephen and Parker dive into a high level of what kind of equipment is needed to outfit a bench.

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Electron Congo Line

Are the founders of electrical engineering lizard people or is big electricity have a dark secret that they don't want you to know about? Tune in!

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Cow Field

This week Stephen and Parker were supposed to discuss bench equipment for development and testing but got distracted by talking about home-brewing beer.

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Tip Resurrection Cream

How is it possible that Stephen and Parker can talk about solder and soldering supplies for over one hour. Listen to this weeks episode to find out!

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A 1 Dollar Chips Matter

What kind of soldering equipment should an engineer look at getting for their bench? Parker and Stephen start discussing equipment and supplies!

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Crispy Currents

The engineering mind. Stephen and Parker discuss if the process engineers use to solve problems is inherent to engineers or is there something more?

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Tradition is Peer Pressure From the Dead

Is the DIY maker movement now dead or is it shifting to be less commercialized now? Chris Gammell joins our podcast to discuss is DIY Dead?

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Operation Scope Creep

Multi-layer PCB designs. As an engineer, how do you decide when it is time to increase layer count and how do you decide what goes on those layers?

Has open source hardware run its course

Has Open Source Hardware Run Its Course?

Ben Heckendorn and Chris Kraft rejoin the podcast to discuss if Open Source Hardware has run its course or is the dream still alive in our souls.

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