EP#82: Make Electrons Flow Right?

Make electrons flow right?

• August Hardware & Electronics Engineering Meetup by MacroFab & Mouser Electronics event is live!
  • Wednesday August 30th in Houston, Texas
  • This month's topic is Lean Manufacturing and Product Design
  • Stephen will be giving a talk on "How to Design Electronics with Lean Manufacturing in Mind"
  • Guests Scott Hansen and Eric Benzenhoefer of The Idea Tank will be there as well
  • We did a podcast with them a couple weeks ago on MEP EP#77
  • Come grab some food, beer, and socializing if you’re in the Houston area
• Parker
  • New EFM8 Article
    • Covers Simplicity Studio and how to get a blinking LED to work!
    • Will be out on August 30th
• Stephen
  • Synth
    • Red Letter Day! First MEP project complete
    • Parker made the enclosure out of curly maple
    • Mullet Synth: Business in front, Party in the back
    • Ramp pulse, linear wave, needs to be super fast, super accurate
      • Stephen just dead bugged it
    • Other MEP episodes that feature the Synth
      • #68 - Sonic Massage
      • #70 - Bits Flying In
      • #71 - Wrong Variants
      • #72 - Fire Sticks
  • Been with MacroFab for two years now!
  • Resources for Synth design
    • Yunsynth
    • Shruthi
    • Music From Outer Space
• POW
  • Project 54/74
    • Seeks to document 54xx/74xx-series logic chips and subfamilies by imaging and annotating their dies and tracing out their schematics
• RFO
  • Hurricane Harvey coming to Texas
    • How does an electronic engineer or maker survive the apocalypse of no power?