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MacroFab Engineering Podcast #372

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March 31, 2023, Episode #372

Stephen gets an upgrade in his electronics lab with a new multimeter, A Fluke 87V! But is a Fluke as good as the price tag warrants? We break down Stephen’s old meter vs the new Fluke on this episode of the podcast.

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Topics:

  • Bud Industries - Board-ganizer Enclosure Kit
    • Combine breadboards and evaluation boards into an enclosure
  • Fluke 87V multimeter Vs Centech 61593 (also got a rigol DS2072 oscilloscope)
    • $520 vs $39.99
    • 6000 count vs 2000 count
      • Fluke can do “High Res” mode and go to 20,000 count
    • Autorange vs range select
      • Benefits of both
      • Manual range might be better for keeping your ducks in a row.
    • Main difference - the fluke is basically 4x or better on nearly all measurement accuracy
    • The all important beep test
    • Parker uses a ‘Velleman’ DVM850BL
  • Debugging things that don’t work
    • Wagoneer was not happy recently
    • Events that lead up to the problem
    • Problem solving techniques
    • Resolutions?
  • Power Distribution Module
    • What is up with this project?
    • Building an adjacent community for long term discussion of the podcast and projects
  • The MacroFab Podcast Contest IS BACK
    • Details at a later podcast episode

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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