MacroFab Engineering Podcast #53
Aditya and Mijael of Kinetic with “The Device”
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February 3, 2017, Episode #53
- Aditya Bansal
- Co-founder and CTO of Kinetic
- Graduated Purdue University with a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Worked at IBM Research Center before Kinetic
- Developed a motion tracker to move text on a display so the text stays still while running on a treadmill
- Mijael Damian
- Kinetic is a company developing wearable devices to reduce workplace injuries of industrial workers
- Located in New York City
- Small, lean team
- The “Device” runs on the Intels Edison platform which is an x86 architecture
- Rugged design for industrial and harsh environments
- OLED display
- 15 hours of battery life
- Advance IMU for tracking motion
- Records and tracks employee motion to help reduce high risk moves and lifts
- Quantifies how many high risk moves and lifts a person does
- Can give supervisors data on equipment improperly setup, EX: Table too short or parts stored too high
- Lots of advance drop tests, environmental testing, humidity, and temperature
- This is also the first year anniversary of the MEP! Here is to another 52 episodes!
Figure 1: Aditya Bansal and Mijael Damian of Kinetics dropped by to visit MacroFab!
Figure 2: Kinetic’s “The Device”
Figure 3: Aditya Bansal setting up the testing area for preliminary testing of Kinetic’s production run.
About the Hosts
Parker Dillmann
Parker is an Electrical Engineer with backgrounds in Embedded System Design and Digital Signal Processing. He got his start in 2005 by hacking Nintendo consoles into portable gaming units. The following year he designed and produced an Atari 2600 video mod to allow the Atari to display a crisp, RF fuzz free picture on newer TVs. Over a thousand Atari video mods where produced by Parker from 2006 to 2011 and the mod is still made by other enthusiasts in the Atari community.
In 2006, Parker enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin as a Petroleum Engineer. After realizing electronics was his passion he switched majors in 2007 to Electrical and Computer Engineering. Following his previous background in making the Atari 2600 video mod, Parker decided to take more board layout classes and circuit design classes. Other areas of study include robotics, microcontroller theory and design, FPGA development with VHDL and Verilog, and image and signal processing with DSPs. In 2010, Parker won a Ti sponsored Launchpad programming and design contest that was held by the IEEE CS chapter at the University. Parker graduated with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Spring of 2012.
In the Summer of 2012, Parker was hired on as an Electrical Engineer at Dynamic Perception to design and prototype new electronic products. Here, Parker learned about full product development cycles and honed his board layout skills. Seeing the difficulties in managing operations and FCC/CE compliance testing, Parker thought there had to be a better way for small electronic companies to get their product out in customer's hands.
Parker also runs the blog, longhornengineer.com, where he posts his personal projects, technical guides, and appnotes about board layout design and components.
Stephen Kraig
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.
Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!
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