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May 2, 2018, Episode #118
- Stephen
- Fixing Jerry’s Amp that picks up radio signals
- The Johnson Noise
- E34L Tubes
- Parker
- DAC Article Part 3 Complete
- DAC fixture parts arrived to finish Part 4 of the article series
- Details on the MacroFab plans for DefCon 26
- Gameboy Update
- Check out the YouTube video from the BenHeck Show
- Tried out the new Eagle V9
- PinHeck update on the software side
- Raspberry Pi GPU Audio Video Programming by Jan Newmarch
- RFO
- PCB Grounding
- Star Grounds
- Plane and Plunge
- Galactic Grounding
- Analog devices article on grounding
- Tiny Arduino + FPGA = Sno
- Altera MAX10 based development board
- The MAX10 comes preprogrammed with functions that match the Arduino API
- These built in modules do the analog to digital conversion, servo control, operate NeoPixels, and a host of other functions
- HackaDay Article by Al Williams who has been on two previous podcasts: EP#57 and EP#94.
- Analog-rich MCU shoots for sensor nodes
- Microchip PIC16F18446
- ADC can run with the processing core shut-down, waking the core when required
- You can sign up for a free board here on the Microchip site?
- MPLAB Xpress PIC16F18446 Evaluation Board
- PCB Grounding
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PCB star grounding method to the extreme! Awesome looking.

DAC Test Fixture. Will be featured in the DAC Part 4 Article that should be out in the coming weeks.
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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