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MacroFab Engineering Podcast #66

Cooking with Gears with MacroFab

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May 5, 2017, Episode #66

Parker and Stephen go over the design entrees for Stephen's design challenge!
  • Parker
    • We are excited to announce that our first meetup was a great success! We hosted over 90 guests last Wednesday (April 26 2017) . Some of them shared projects they are working on and everyone had a good time.
    • Thank you to our guest speakers!
      • Damien Garza – President at ESU, Inc. & President at Greater Houston Manufacturers Association
      • Rick Pettys – Owner and Engineer at SparX Engineering
      • Ray Simar – Professor at Rice Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., IEEE Fellow
    • Next meet up is this month on May 31. Topic is “Innovating the Energy Industry”!
  • Stephen
    • Design Challenge! Click names to see the submissions!
      • Thomas Ives from Salem, OR
        • LM3914 – Dot Bar Display Driver
      • Brett Smith
        • DM74ALS163BM – Counter
        • CD4514BM96 – Demux
      • Dave Sandl
        • CoolRunner II CPLD
        • ADC over I2C
      • Shawn Swift
        • ATTINY88 driving LEDs:
        • Drive LEDs directly with the 28 IO pins
        • Multiplex them and drive 144 LEDs
  • Rapid Fire Opinion (RFO)
    • IuT ! IoT – HackADay
      • Internet of USEFUL Things, not just the Internet of Things.
      • Hack A Day is looking for the best ideas we can find for useful connected devices.
    • Here’s Why Juicero’s Press is So Expensive – Bolt.io
      • Tear down of the expensive and controversial Juicero juice press.
      • People are calling it a beautifully engineered device. WRONG!
      • Best comment.  “I’ve been hacking Capri Suns since I was 5. I am a hacker.”
    • Amazon’s new Echo Look has a built-in camera for style selfies – TechCrunch
      • AI will decide what is appropriate for millennials to wear.
      • Pave way for Augmented reality dressing rooms?
Figure 1: Design Challenge Entry from Bret!

Figure 1: Design Challenge Entry from Bret!

Figure 2: Design Challenge Entry from Dave!

Figure 2: Design Challenge Entry from Dave!

About the Hosts

Parker Dillmann
  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

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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