EP#85: Space Engineers VS Caffeinated Chipmunks

EP#85: Space Engineers VS Caffeinated Chipmunks

Space Engineers VS Caffeinated Chipmunks

  • September 13th, 2017 was the 4th anniversary of MacroFab!
  • Hardware and Electronics Engineering Meetup for September event is live!
    • How to Design Products with Lean Manufacturing in Mind which Stephen is doing.
    • How to Use Mouser's Parametric Search Function
    • Free food and beer and Networking!
  • "Fan" Art for the Pinotaur!
  • Parker
    • Fixing Stephens Motorcycle
      • 2001 Honda Arrow VT 1100 c3
      • Back cylinder does not fire
        • Fuel, spark, compression - at least one of those things doesn’t work
      • Update week after next weeks episode. MEP EP#87
  • Stephen
    • New gear for the podcast
      • All in rack-mount format, everything accessible from back side
      • Front will be mint
      • List of equipment
        • MOTU 8pre USB interface
        • ART P16 XLR Balanced Patchbay
        • 2 of Shure SM7B Vocal Dynamic Microphone, Cardioid
        • 2 of Shure SM58-LC Cardioid Dynamic Vocal Microphone
        • 2 Mindprint DTC tube preamps and compressor/limiters
          • Dual tube channel
          • Stephen picked up for $200 valued at $3,000 each
        • Parker’s Geophysical services - vintage rack mount
  • POW
    • Aylons showed off a really neat way to reflow FPGA BGAs at home in our Slack Channel
      • Clothes iron with a thermocouple attached
      • Regulate temperature via PID (Person In Dominion)
      • Multimeter set in Diode mode
      • Connected to an I/O pin on the PCB and GND on PCB
      • When the meter beeps you reflowed!
  • RFO
    • Sewer in London’s East End Menaced by Giant Fatberg - New York Times
      • Whitechapel fatberg
      • Occupying a sixth of a mile of sewer under Whitechapel Road
      • 140 Tonsof fat and wet wipes
      • Lee Irving described the experience of encountering a fatberg as overwhelming, with a smell that mixes rotting meat and smelly toilet
    • A Question from our CEO Chris Church
      • "Do engineers in space helmets work faster, or slower, than caffeinated chipmunks?"
      • And a bonus question. “... and which does less damage?”

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EP#435: Prioritize to learn to Prioritize - Engineering Career Paths

EP#435: Prioritize to learn to Prioritize - Engineering Career Paths

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EP#434: The Other VCC

EP#434: The Other VCC

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EP#433: Building LibrePCB - Urban Bruhin's Journey in Open Source EDA

EP#433: Building LibrePCB - Urban Bruhin's Journey in Open Source EDA

In this episode of Circuit Break, Parker Dillmann and Stephen Kraig welcome Urban Bruhin, the creator of LibrePCB, an open-source EDA tool. Urban shares his journey from being an electrical engineer t...

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EP#432: Remote Ownership

EP#432: Remote Ownership

In this episode of Circuit Break, Parker Dillmann and Stephen Kraig discuss the recent increase in semiconductor tariffs and its impact on the electronics industry. Parker shares insights from his lat...

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EP#431: Timing Tariff Modulations

EP#431: Timing Tariff Modulations

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EP#430: The Toilet Mountain of Social Media

EP#430: The Toilet Mountain of Social Media

Summary:In this episode, Parker Dillmann and Stephen Kraig delve into the hefty topic of U.S. funding for 'digital twin' chips research under the CHIPS Act, comparing its budget to other big expenditu...

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EP#429: The Magic Touch Is Money

EP#429: The Magic Touch Is Money

This week we delve into the major (Isn't there always one?) lawsuit against Apple for monopolizing the smartphone market. We explore the implications of Apple’s business practices on innovation, consu...

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EP#428: Repairing the Retro Future

EP#428: Repairing the Retro Future

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