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December 4, 2019, Episode #201
Parker
- Air Raid Siren Update
- Ordered Power System for Badge Testing
- Will post the design when it is verified to work
- Looking for IC’s for the lithium battery version
- Type-C USB and power delivery would be nice features
- Brewery Building
- Soldered some stainless steel
- Electrical Box almost completed
- Need to wire up the pump switches
- The joke is that brewing is 90% cleaning and 10% paperwork
Stephen
- How easy is it to make a game console?
- Had the idea from the pi touchscreen
- Only solder. No electronic design
- LCD Screen
- Power boost 1000
- Lipo Battery
- Raspberry pi zero
- Aluminum – $30
- Buttons and dpad?
- Tactile buttons dont feel right
- I dont like the idea of sawing up a SNES controller pcb
- Adafruit ideas
R.F.O.
- DeepPCB: Pure AI-Powered, Cloud-Native Printed Circuit Board Routing
- 24 hr turn around
- The hardest part of PCB routing is Placement
- Solder mask color clearance?
- Check with your pcb manufacturer!
- Has the water analogy gone too far?

Front of the PCB Parker design to test the power system of the badge he is working on.

Back of the PCB Parker design to test the power system of the badge he is working on.
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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