EP#358: The Social Media Nightmare

EP#358: The Social Media Nightmare

Porsche’s synthetic gasoline factory comes online today in Chile

  • Way back on episode 265 (Feb 2021) we talked about this announcement from Porsche.
  • Production
    • 34,000 gallons (130,000 L) a year
    • 14.5 million gallons (55 million L) a year by 2024
    • 145 million gallons (550 million L) a year by 2026
  • Wind power to electrolysis water into hydrogen and oxygen
    • The hydrogen is then combined with carbon captured from the air or industrial sources to synthesize methanol
    • Then be converted into longer hydrocarbons to be used as fuel
    • Recycling CO2 in the air
  • Is this the future of current Internal Combustion Engines?
    • Direct drop in for normal gasoline
    • “Carbon Neutral” way to run your classic car

Chip manufacturing equipment sales record in 2022

  • Record fab constructions have driven total semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales to cross the $100 billion mark for a second straight year
  • Chips Act is $280 billion.
    • China, Taiwan and Korea are projected to remain the top three destinations for equipment spending in 2022.
  • Most of this money is going towards Wafer Manufacturing Equipment with a focus on wafers for logic / active components like microcontrollers

Why The Computer Company Raspberry Pi’s New Hire Caused A Social Media Firestorm

  • Hired an ex–police officer, Toby Roberts, as its maker-in-residence.
  • “I was a Technical Surveillance Officer for 15 years, so I built stuff to hide video, audio, and other covert gear”

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EP#404: The Barcode is 50 with its creator, Paul V. McEnroe

EP#404: The Barcode is 50 with its creator, Paul V. McEnroe

Parker and Stephen speak with Paul V. McEnroe, an award-winning engineer who developed multiple state-of-the-art technologies during his long career, including more than two decades in leadership role...

14 Marras 202354min

EP#403: Captured Pads

EP#403: Captured Pads

Parker and Stephen check in with the new Circuit Break Discourse community and a Chip of the Week discussion initiated by mobius_striptease, a closer look at the LT3073 3A, Ultra-Low Noise, High PSRR,...

7 Marras 202351min

EP#402: Consciously Collecting Concepts

EP#402: Consciously Collecting Concepts

Parker and Stephen discuss Parker’s participation in Extra Life Day: Revenge of the Holiday Special on November 4, 2023, in which he’ll be playing and streaming STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order for 24 hou...

31 Loka 202354min

EP#401: Recording Studio Problem Solving with Electrical Audio’s Greg Norman

EP#401: Recording Studio Problem Solving with Electrical Audio’s Greg Norman

Parker and Stephen have a great talk with Greg Norman, a recording engineer, producer, and technician at Steve Albini’s studio, Electrical Audio, in Chicago, who also constructs and repairs various au...

24 Loka 20231h 17min

EP#400: We Are Circuit Break!

EP#400: We Are Circuit Break!

Parker and Stephen celebrate episode 400 of the MacroFab Engineering Podcast and announce its relaunch as Circuit Break starting next week, plus a discussion about MacroFab’s tenth anniversary, the en...

17 Loka 202350min

EP#399: Zero to One: Joshua Manley on the language of the 3D realm

EP#399: Zero to One: Joshua Manley on the language of the 3D realm

Parker and Stephen welcome Josh Manley back to the show to discuss how humans and CAD can interact! Josh is the co-owner and CEO of CADClass.org. Through a comprehensive array of courses and literatur...

13 Loka 20231h

EP#398: Duke Nukem v. Parker, Raspberry Pi 5, Weldestroyer!

EP#398: Duke Nukem v. Parker, Raspberry Pi 5, Weldestroyer!

Parker and Stephen discuss Parker’s past and upcoming Extra Life Day charity work, in which he plays video games like Duke Nukem and STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order to support Children’s Miracle Network ...

6 Loka 202349min

EP#397: Guard the CHIPS, New Math for Double E’s

EP#397: Guard the CHIPS, New Math for Double E’s

Parker and Stephen discuss community feedback that led Parker to order a Bambu X1 Carbon 3D Printer, which should be arriving any day now, S to the L to the A, “guardrails” that the U.S. Commerce Depa...

29 Syys 202349min

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