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February 26, 2020, Episode #213
Parker
- Going to be doing Webinars for MacroFab.
- How MFs tools make you a better electrical engineer and supply chain manager
- Learning AutoDesk Fusion360
- Getting pretty good
- Learning from Youtube and Stephen
- Can be almost as fast and proficient as Parker was in Sketchup
- Getting pretty good
- Braze it 420
- Learning to braze brass radiators and steel gas tanks
- Make sure there is no gas fumes!
Stephen
- CNC
- Trying to buck the standard
- Jointer/Planer -> table -> electrical work -> table saw -> torsion box -> gantry restoration -> new spindle
- New 220V for the following
- Welding
- Brewing
- CNC machine
- Fermentation controller
- Audibles on some design characteristics
- Switches/encoders
- Probably going to go with wiring instead of all PCB mount
- Footprints for Solid State Relays
Rapid Fire Opinion
- Raspberry pi 4 release fixes the USB problem
- This is being treated as a “design for manufacturability” change
- Lumped along with some silkscreen changes to avoid solder bridging and the SD card voltage switch moving
- Why not fully announce this?
- Chinese Tariff Exemption for 2- and 4-layer PCBs
- Valid until Aug. 7, 2020
- Fisher & Paykel PCB Silkscreen Design
- The sad faces are where the hand insert components go
- If any sad faces are showing, the operator hasn’t finished their job.
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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