MacroFab Engineering Podcast
370 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsMacroFab's Engineering Podcast! Where Electrical Engineers, Parker Dillmann and Stephen Kraig talk about electrical engineering topics, DIY projects, and industry news. Sometimes cool people stop by the podcast to drop some knowledge.
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MEP EP #166: Ken and Chip Gracey of Parallax Inc
April 03, 2019 22:08 - 1 hour - 107 MBKen and Chip Gracey of Parallax Inc Ken Gracey Leader and CEO of Parallax UC Davis alumni who lives and breathes Parallax products and has done so around the world All about family, working smart, having fun, mountaineering, and riding his unicycle Chip Gracey Parallax founder. He had his first major introduction to programming and electronics when he was 13 years old with the Timex Sinclair computer After graduating high school, he and his techy friend from the 7th grade started Par...
MEP EP #165: Dillon Nichols - Simplified Home Automation
March 28, 2019 05:03 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MBSimplified Home Automation Dillon Nichols Electrical engineer specializing in embedded systems Spends his free time designing circuits, writing code, and building physical objects by 3D printing, woodworking, and metal working Enjoys trying out new processors and services to build up his engineering knowledge base Dillon was one of the Winners of the MacroFab Design Contest: Blink an LED Pragmatic Blinky Category Disintegrated LM3909 - 1.5V LED Flasher Home Automation What do you e...
MEP EP #164: Surfing for Science: Phil Bresnahan of Smartfin
March 20, 2019 18:27 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBSurfing for Science: Phil Bresnahan of Smartfin Phil Bresnahan Has made the water his playground and office for most of his life Senior Development Engineer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography a department of UC San Diego, and the Lead Engineer of the Smartfin Project SmartFin What is SmartFin? The Lost Bird Project Why use a Surf Board for this platform? What kind of sensors does this fin have? How does it measure the ocean’s chemistry? Construction techniques? How is the fin...
MEP EP #163: The Golden Integrated Circuit
March 13, 2019 19:07 - 58 minutes - 80.2 MBThe Golden Integrated Circuit Parker Propeller Development Stick Type-C Addition Found the BQ24165RGET to handle the lithium battery power management New battery management IC handles dual inputs thus replacing the TPS2113ADRBR power mux and p-channel mosfet Wagon Tach Project Signal is a 50V pulse from the distributor Arduinos do not like 50V Wagon Powered Mirror PCB Installed! 3D printed a bracket and installed into the door Tag Connect Probe Ends Will give a full report on ...
MEP EP #162: Electric Vehicle Charging and Cat Safety
March 06, 2019 23:41 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MBElectric Vehicle Charging and Cat Safety Christopher Howell OpenEVSE started in February 2011 with a simple experiment to try to generate the J1772 pilot signal on an Arduino One experiment lead to another to another until a prototype J1772 compatible controller was born With lots of feedback and interest a few boards were offered to other hardware hackers What started as 6 boards built in the first batch turned into many thousands... Today, OpenEVSE powers charging stations from many ...
MEP EP #161: Kalashinikaze: The Right to Fly Arms
February 27, 2019 21:51 - 52 minutes - 71.6 MBKalashinikaze: The Right to Fly Arms Parker Prop Dev Stick Type-C edition update Routing almost complete Moved from 0603 to 0402 Parallax Propeller moved from QFP to QFN Changed the voltage regulator from a NCP1117 3.3V to a AP7361C 3.3V Why? Adding Lipo battery charging support BQ24075 Ti part Testing my USB Type-C example boards Interesting Dongle Type-A to Type-C Wagon power mirror controller works! Stephen LND150 feedback tone stack for a Roz amp Similar to the Venteq this...
MEP EP #160: Al Williams and the One Instruction Wonder
February 20, 2019 17:08 - 54 minutes - 74.6 MBAl Williams and the One Instruction Wonder Al Williams One of the authors behind Hackaday, a website that features electronic projects and other things that appeal to people interested in computers, electronics, and technology Ham radio operator Author of many books Has worked on everything from underwater technology to the International Space Station and just about everything in between Was on previous episodes EP#57: Mr. Williams, your book changed my life EP#94: Al Williams and t...
MEP EP #159: Big Mattress is Coming For You
February 13, 2019 20:21 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBBig Mattress is Coming For You Parker Wrote an article about the past three years of the MacroFab Engineering Podcast Chime Module MC14069UB Hex inverter MC14001UB Quad NOR gate Other Circuit components What is the best way to reverse engineer a PCB? Ray Alert Stephen Rebuilt and rewired 3 amplifiers Soldano clone went from being somewhat noisy to virtually nothing Very interesting grounding scheme Lots of dos and donts Utracer tube testing The Macro Amp Nu Tube Always rem...
MEP EP #158: Jason Cerundolo of Reclaimer Labs
February 06, 2019 21:04 - 50 minutes - 69.2 MBJason Cerundolo of Reclaimer Labs Jason Cerundolo An engineer experienced in mechanical, electrical, and firmware engineering Jason has over nine years of experience as a hardware engineer and working on electronic designs in Silicon Valley In his free time, he works on open source projects, such as USB Type-C tools and projects USB Type-C Power Delivery PHY Breakout Board A breakout board for the FUSB302 USB-PD PHY for BMC communication used in USB-C connectors Determine plug orien...
MEP EP#157: Power Hungry Venti-Q
January 30, 2019 23:23 - 49 minutes - 68.7 MBPower Hungry Venti-Q Parker Star Wars Detonator is 95% complete It is inside the enclosure and works! Stand needs to be printed and wrap up the paint Original STL files for the detonator by Roel Veldhuyzen Future of this project? USB Type-C Article Update USB Type-C -> FTDI FT230X -> Parallax Propeller is completed Example is on our githubs Next is going to be a direct to MCU style like an ATmega32u4 unless someone else has a better idea from the slack channel? Stephen EQ is fun...
MEP EP#156: Are you ready to Tango?
January 23, 2019 20:55 - 59 minutes - 82.4 MBAre you ready to Tango? Parker Wagon Chime Module Installed back on Wagon and It works! USB Type-C Article Update Have the Type-C to FT230X complete Design Block for Eagle ESD protection on the CC Pins? IP4234CZ6,125 USB ESD protection Stephen Found the old ribbon mic from MEP EP#110: Dangling Transformers Going look at doing a quick spin of a stacked PCB based version instead of the 3d printed chassis Boards can screw together to clamp to the ribbon itself by having a gold pad o...
MEP EP#155: Void Copper Donuts
January 16, 2019 20:32 - 1 hour - 85.7 MBVoid Copper Donuts Parker Wagon Chime Module Repaired StarWars Detonator Prop RPI3 CM Motherboard USB Hub Saga LAN9514 MP62551 or TPS2054B Improving the Prop Dev Stick Changing to QFN from QFP Prop USB Type C for USB 2.0 Changing the power handling? Original part is TPS2113 Only handles 5.5V MAX NCP3901 is a Dual input Mux Handles more power then I need but no built in current limiting Maybe MPS has a good standalone current limiter? Stephen Beginning the eq build. There is...
MEP EP#154
January 09, 2019 23:20 - 52 minutes - 71.5 MBReclaiming Audio Equipment with Cliff Schecht Cliff Schecht An electrical engineer with a masters degree Spends his days rescuing vintage gear Is the CEO and operates Reclaimed Audio Reclaimed Audio offers repair and restoration services on audio, radio, and test equipment from the turn of the century through current state of the art Restoring Vintage Audio Equipment How to restore equipment and keep it true to original design, but get it ready for another 20 years run time Rebuildin...
MEP EP#153
January 02, 2019 23:22 - 1 hour - 88.7 MBDiscrete Atomic Luffa Control Benjamin Heckendorn An electronics hacking entertainment guru Former host of Element 14’s “ The Ben Heck Show”. Chris Kraft A tinkerer currently working as a software engineer in the financial services industry Extensive background in 3d printing and building anything that seems interesting Past two years Both where last seen on Episode 75: Does the simulation match reality? Ben has moved on from hosting "The Ben Heck Show" Chris has been experimenting...
MEP EP#152
December 26, 2018 21:47 - 1 hour - 93.2 MBThird Annual MacroFab Star Wars Christmas Special - Vader's Fake Fingers Josh Rozier By day Josh Rozier does business intelligence and data analytics for a large, east-coast insurance monolith By night he is Roz, a level 5 Scoundrel and chief troublemaker of the StarWars D20 RPG group Is the Force a Force? Hyperspace Ramming 12 Parsecs? Solo’s famous line that shows Lucas has no idea what he was writing. Predictions from the previous podcast Stephen was right - Luke Died Parker was ...
MEP EP#151
December 19, 2018 21:01 - 48 minutes - 67.1 MBWhy Mesh Networking Matters – Brandon Satrom Brandon Satrom Developer Advocate for Particle, an IoT platform company The founder of Carrot Pants Press, a company dedicated to educating makers On the MacroFab Engineering Podcast Episode Number 122, Brandon discussed the Particle Photon and built an IoT breathalyzer with Parker live on the podcast What is currently distracting Brandon now? Why mesh networking matters Existing mesh networking standards Thread/OpenThread and why Particle...
MEP EP#150
December 13, 2018 00:36 - 41 minutes - 56.3 MBConnector Confusion Congratulations to our Slack member Mobius Striptease! Mobius’ pulse generator won first place at their Senior Design Expo! Article written about MacroFab: Houston electronics manufacturing company gears up for growth. Talks about the growth of MacroFab over the past 2 years. Parker RPI3 Compute Module PCM5122 Routed LAN9514 Routed single upstream USB port on BCM2835 Pin 44 Ethernet 25MHz output Pin 31 LAN RESET Information found on the Raspberry pi forum Need ...
MEP EP#149
December 05, 2018 23:37 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MBPEE-can Verse puh-KAHN - Scaling up Electronics with KINETIC Matt Glazer Lead electrical engineer at KINETIC Building IoT wearables for the industrial workforce by day and building electric long-boards by night Obsessed with space and can talk hours on end about the current state of space technology Jeff Doong Head of manufacturing at KINETIC In charge of making sure current products are manufactured correctly and new products are designed to efficiently scale If he wasn't at KINETIC...
MEP EP#148
November 28, 2018 21:43 - 51 minutes - 70.8 MBA Unique Perspective on Feature Creeping The podcast got mentioned in an article! 12 Great Podcasts for Engineers from the Mind Tribe blog. Mind Tribe is a design driven engineering firm based in San Francisco. The list spawns from a survey from the engineering team at Mind Tribe. Thanks Mind Tribe for mentioning our podcast! Parker RPI3 Compute Module Added PCM5122 Added LAN9514 Still figuring out the schematic part Ethernet and USB hub built in EFM8 Universal Beeeeeeeeeee Com port...
MEP EP#147
November 21, 2018 16:36 - 49 minutes - 67.5 MBCharlyn Gonda and the Ever-Lowering Fence between Software and Hardware Charlyn Gonda Coder by day, maker by night A chronic problem solver and is currently in the middle of her year-long project, 12 Months of Makes Has too much fun building circuits, creating things with 3D printing, crafting hats and coding IoT devices! Topics Charlyn what is your background? Day Job ect? Why did you become a Software Developer? How did you go from a Software Developer to building Hardware for the ...
MEP EP#146
November 14, 2018 21:52 - 53 minutes - 73 MBThe TechHOUNDS John Waidner Electronics Engineer with a background in Logic design, analog circuit, system integration and testing Currently John is a mentor for the TechHOUNDS and volunteers for the Boy Scouts of America Derek Fronek High school student from Carmel High School Part of the Carmel High School robotics team the TechHOUNDS TechHOUNDS What are the TechHOUNDS and how did you start? Leadership? Who leads the group? Divisions Robot Ops Programming/Electrical Construct...
MEP EP#145
November 06, 2018 21:12 - 57 minutes - 78.6 MBThe Vox in a Box Roxs Stephen's Vox in a Box Preamp Design Vox AC30 preamp - 3 gain stages with a cathode follower and a phase inverter Phase inverter - create differential signals for the power amp input Drop signal using voltage dividers and mosfet buffers 320V phase inverter to 18V buffer drive Built point to point on an aluminum plate for easy modification and testing Power Amp Design TPA3116 Class D amplifier LM311 comparator mute circuit for start up mute ~5 to 10 Seconds Ru...
MEP EP#144
October 31, 2018 15:37 - 50 minutes - 69.2 MBEspress-ify? Designing Products Around the ESP-32 Platform. Guests Zapp Chief Bling Officer (CBO) at AND!XOR During his limited free time he writes vulnerable C code, dabbles in Kicad, and trolls Arduino bot accounts on Twitter Never been seen at the same time and place as Batman...But then again, neither has Stephen Hyr0n A button pusher, easily replaced by a thousand monkeys with a thousand laptops, but manages to crank out firmware and hacker puzzles If you’re reading this...
MEP EP#143
October 24, 2018 20:25 - 47 minutes - 65.4 MBSystem-In-Package Platforms Gene Frantz - Chief Technology Officer for Octavo Systems One of the founders and the visionary behind Octavo Systems Professor in the Practice at Rice University in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Was the Principal Technology Fellow at Texas Instruments where he built a career finding new opportunities and building new businesses to leverage TI’s DSP technology Holds 48 patents and has written over 100 papers/articles and presents at ...
MEP EP#142
October 18, 2018 00:30 - 1 hour - 94.4 MBSupply Chain Conspiracy Securities Misha Govshteyn CEO of MacroFab Founder of Alert Logic Christopher Church Founder & CPO of MacroFab Founder of Dynamic Perception Co-Founder/Chief Architect at Alert Logic Chris was on a previous MEP episode about the recent Chinese tariffs Supply chain hardware and software security This topic spurs from recent allegations from bloomberg about the possibility of a hardware supply chain infiltration in Super Micro Computer Inc, which may ...
MEP EP#141
October 10, 2018 21:02 - 1 hour - 104 MBIt Depends – An In Depth Look at MLCCs with James Lewis James Lewis Our guest this week may or may not be an Engineer or may or may not have Hair! James Lewis’ passion for teaching non-engineers has led to him to create the Bald Engineer Blog and the AddOhms video tutorial series With 15 years of experience in electronics, marketing, sales, and teaching James boils seemingly difficult concepts down to the core, so that anyone can learn what they need to finish that next great projec...
MEP EP#140
October 02, 2018 22:11 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MBThe Genesis of My Bill Of Materials Parker RTL SDR functional setup? RTL-FM Seems to work fine for FM stuff AM works in direct sampling mode but I can’t seem to get that to work with RTL-FM Upconverter needed? Auto switching signals? RTL_FM also does not support stereo sound Might need a new option? R820T P7K5 Software Defined Radio? KiCad User improvements for MacroFab in the future KiCad Python API has awful documentation Particle Spectra Conference Workshops...
MEP EP#139
September 26, 2018 18:11 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBBreaking Bad Taps Parker Diagnosing power drops in the Wagon RTL SDR update? RTL-SDR for the Raspberry Pi Maybe a Live twitch session with some seasoned Python / SDR Peeps? Wrote about PCB Stackups for the MacroFab knowledge base Stephen Vox in a Box Power supply and Power amp have schematics Test Box Design for the power supply and power amp R.F.O. SQFMI Leaks new project #Watchy E-ink, ESP32 based, Accelerometer, 25 day battery life, Arduino support, and ...
MEP EP#138
September 19, 2018 17:48 - 43 minutes - 59.4 MBMacroFab Design Contest: Blink an LED – MEP Favorite We would like to thank everyone that entered into the MacroFab Design Contest: Blink an LED Sponsored by Mouser Electronics. The winner for the Pragmatic Blinky was Dillon with the Disintegrated LM3909 – 1.5V LED Flasher. The winner for the Most Complicated Blink was Paul Gallagher with The Bouncy Thief LED Blinking Machine. And The winner for the Wearable blink was Gerben with the Led eyelashes. MacroFab Engineering Podcast Favorite d...
MEP EP#137
September 12, 2018 22:02 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBVector Simulations for Samsung Capacitors Before we get started I would like to thank everyone that entered into the MacroFab Design Contest: Blink an LED Sponsored by Mouser Electronics. The judges are going through the entries this week and we will announce the winners on the blog and typical social media locations on September 17th, 2018. Stephen and Parker will announce the winners of the MacroFab Engineering Podcast Favorite on the next episode 138. Stephen Both Introduction and De...
MEP EP#136
September 05, 2018 23:45 - 56 minutes - 52 MBClassy NASCAR Badgelife Parker Wagon Chime Module Experimented with brake clean and that seemed to not remove the finish Any other suggestions? Wagon Powered Mirror Module Schematic complete and Board laid out Used DRV8872 motor drives SOIC-8 style package instead of SO-36 of the BTM7742G Just another project to work on Raspberry Pi - RTL SDR radio Wood front panel Tube preamp that runs off of 12V Touch VFD? Stephen uTracer blog post by the Designer New blo...
MEP EP#135
August 29, 2018 22:03 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBThe Hamster That Chirps Parker Wagon Chime module Two ICS MC14001B MC14069 Interesting metal can for a speaker module Two transistors in a push pull configuration Replaced electrolytic caps and it kinda functions Powered Mirror Circuit RKJXT1F42001 BTM7752G Stephen uTracer complete! Cleaner signals? Lessons learned Things Stephen would do different if he could RFO Craig Rettew askes: “Cost comparison between 2 layer and 4 layer boards. Are 2 layer much c...
MEP EP#134
August 22, 2018 22:01 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBInjection Molded Enclosure Design with John Teel John Teel Founder of Predictable Designs, a company which helps startups, makers, and small companies develop new electronic products Previously, John was on Episode 106 of the MacroFab Engineering Podcast where John spoke about making the product development process as predictable as possible Injection Molding Enclosure Design What is the general process of injection molding? Challenges of Injection Molding: Why does it have this “...
MEP EP#133
August 15, 2018 21:52 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBTales From an Electrical Engineer - Ideas on Mechanical Design Parker Building the electronics for the Thermal Detonator Arduino Nano LM386 amplifier PinHeck REV8 update! PCM5122 moving on PCB Fabricating a rear window wiper for the Wagon Forum post on modifying a Dodge Durango rear wiper motor Stephen uTracer PCB arrived STM32 Microcontroller STM32CubeMX System Workbench for STM32 NUCLEO-L476RG RFO MacroFab Design Contest: Blink an LED Sponsored by Mouser Electronics...
MEP EP#132
August 08, 2018 21:06 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBDoes not respond after opening LOUD? MacroFab Design Contest: Blink an LED Sponsored by Mouser Electronics More information can be found on the MacroFab Blog Get your blink on! Parker MEP SAO was completed and an article was written about it MAX6682 breakout board working Time to finish the Jeep MCU board? Wagon skid plate complete Stephen uTracer PCB finished Update on uTracer enclosure printing? RFO Learn FPGA Fast with Hackaday’s FPGA Boot Camp FPGA Bootcamp Al Willia...
MEP EP#131
August 01, 2018 22:32 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBScott Swaaley and MAKESafe Tools Scott Swaaley Electrical Engineer from California Polytechnic State University Started his career rewiring 18th century tall ships Designed electrical systems for hospitals and data centers before becoming a specialist in renewable energy economics Had a career in teaching and working with students in makerspaces Founder of MAKESafe Tools YouTube Channels Scott likes Clickspring This Old Tony What is MAKESafe Tools? Bringing industrial-...
MEP EP#130
July 25, 2018 20:35 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBFree Form Jazz Welding Chris Gammel over at The Amp Hour gave the MacroFab Engineering Podcast a shout out for our podcast with Chris Church for our Tariff discussion The Amp Hour also hit episode 400! Congrats! Parker MEP SAO Update Software almost complete What kind of LED patterns should I implement? Wagon skid plate welding Stephen uTracer update CNC work on the enclosure Feed rate and speed calculations R.F.O. Return of RadioShack? HobbyTown will start hav...
MEP EP#129
July 18, 2018 20:10 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBTrebuchet VS Opamps Parker Connectors for the Jeep PCM where a perfect match! P/Ns Black Connector: 4-1437290-5 White Connector: 4-1437290-6 Grey Connector: 4-1437290-7 Still waiting on the MAX6682 breakout board GitHub Repo Ordered some MEP Shitty Add-Ons Zapp and Hyron ordered a set MEP EP#69: Incognito Mode MEP EP#109: Arduino, The Gateway Drug To #BadgeLife Brandon Satrom ordered one MEP EP#122: Brandon Satrom and the LANoT A/C control module repair for t...
MEP EP#128
July 11, 2018 19:14 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBGit on the Darwin Wagon Parker MEP Shitty Add-On EFM8SB10F2G based like the MacroWatch V2 15 addressable channels of LED blinking 23 Red 0603 LEDs in total Connectors for the Jeep PCM PCM connector locks are starting to break due to age Found an eBay auction with replacement connectors for sale that had part numbers printed on the connectors P/N Black Connector: 4-1437290-5 White Connector: 4-1437290-6 Grey Connector: 4-1437290-7 Update on the Wagon Carburetor ...
MEP EP#127
July 05, 2018 20:12 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBTariff Impacts with Chris Church Chris Church The Chief Product Officer of MacroFab Founded MacroFab along with Parker Recent article Decoding Tariff Impacts on US Electronics Manufacturing What kind of items in the Tariff list will impact US Electronics Manufacturing? Passives, actives excluding ICs and diodes, mechanical components like switches, connectors, etc Assembled PCBs from China Shouldn’t see a huge impact from LEDs Short Term Impacts on the Market Pricing on...
MEP EP#126
June 27, 2018 16:06 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBSpace Engineering Parker MAX6682 breakout board finished and ordered This is for the thermistors GitHub repo for the board files New Jeep, The Grande Wagoneer A/C doesn’t work as expected Found the FSM and Schematic Schematic for the A/C controls Page 31 Page 32 Schematic has four parts that control the A/C Compressor Evaporator thermistor Turns out this is a standard 5K NTC thermistor A/C temperature sensor Compressor Low Pressure Switch Standard part #4...
MEP EP#125
June 20, 2018 18:50 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBThe Open Source Episode with Robert Keim Robert Keim A graduate from the University of California of San Diego with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering Technical Director for All About Circuits Extensive experience in a wide variety of fields, including Analog design Firmware development Digital signal processing Power management Motor control Digital camera design Low-noise PCB layout System integration Designing for harsh environments Neural networks...
MEP EP#124
June 13, 2018 17:52 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBLetting The Loaf Out Parker MAX6682 breakout board to read the thermistors Engineer Spotlight on All About Circuits Ford Climate Controlled Seat Module Breakdown Peltier setup Temperature feedback is via thermistor 54K to 240K with the resistance around 170K at room temp Possibly a NTC 200K? Fan uses a LB11988HR from OnSemi 3 Wire Interesting setup to control the speed of the fan What part is Dpak with marking 065886A Stephen The uTracer 3 design update Full...
MEP EP#123
June 07, 2018 16:17 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBJiggling Jumper Cables Stephen The uTracer 3 A tube curve tracer that is very powerful. Some upgrades that are in the mix New interface for selecting socket connections - going to have 8 and 9 pin sockets with rotary switches for each pin Upgraded ground loop for measuring the grid current on triodes Integrated FTDI Transistor curve tracer (only tests the "positive" transistors PNP,N-Channel stuff) Lab Notebook: http://dos4ever.com/uTracerNotebook/Notebook.html#Plate SSP...
MEP EP#122
May 31, 2018 16:50 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBBrandon Satrom and the LANoT Brandon Satrom Developer evangelist for Particle The founder of Carrot Pants Press Loves to talk about Javascript, open source, microcontrollers, robots, and what ever new shiny tool or technology that is currently distracting him Kitchen Sink of badges designed for Maker Faire San Mateo. Favorite Bagel Blinky of IoT Parker unboxed a Particle Photon Included in the box is a photoresistor, a LED, breadboard, and some resistors Parker built the...
MEP EP#121
May 23, 2018 17:19 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBChoose Your Own Adventure Level Shifter Stephen Mute circuit design PDF of the schematic Is it really digital or analog? What is the defining difference between the two Parker Gameboy VGA project Added SN74LVC8T245 level shifters Designing a flat flex cable? Will document it on his blog Left to do on the schematic side of things VGA connector Possible L717HDEH15POL2 part? 3.3V TTL -> Analog VGA signal Going to use a resistor ladder Current dev board uses 4bit V...
MEP EP#120
May 16, 2018 19:38 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBMastery of Skills and Wonder Stephen Moving to Denver, Colorado Podcast will still go on in a remote form, similar to another popular electronics podcast Parker Posted on his blog recently and will be doing more! R.F.O. The Nintendo switch has been hacked – via hardware! First discovered by fail0verflow Switch runs on the Nvidia Tegra X1 platform Put the switch into a USB recovery mode by shorting out some pins on the Joy-Con Controller Then trick the Switch's USB stack...
MEP EP#119
May 10, 2018 15:28 - 1 hour - 84 MBTell Me How People Hurt You Mashup episode with Embedded.FM Elecia White and Christopher White are the hosts of the Embedded.FM podcast It is a podcast dedicated to the many aspects of engineering Elecia and Christopher talk about the how, why, and what of engineering, usually devices The focus is bringing on guests and experts onto the podcast How to make Software and Hardware Engineers work better together Schematics for the Apollo Guidance Computer and their Kicad replica on ...
MEP EP#118
May 02, 2018 15:36 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBBattlestar Gallactic Grounds Stephen Fixing Jerry's Amp that picks up radio signals The Johnson Noise E34L Tubes Parker DAC Article Part 3 Complete DAC fixture parts arrived to finish Part 4 of the article series Details on the MacroFab plans for DefCon 26 Gameboy Update Check out the youtube video from the BenHeck Show Tried out the new Eagle V9 PinHeck update on the software side RFO PCB Grounding Star Grounds Plane and Plunge Galactic Grounding Analog d...
MEP EP#117
April 25, 2018 15:39 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBTrey German Strikes Back Trey German First guest on the MEP way back on EP#10 Second appearance was EP#38 Icarus Trophy Polymorphic Labs Stewart & Stevenson M1083 Announcements Twitter Chat Info April 27th Friday at 1PM CST MacroFab Monthly Electronics Meetup May 23rd 6PM at MacroFab HQ in Houston Brandon Satrom from Particle. Going to give a talk about IoT fundamentals. Houston Hardware Happy Hour May 3rd at Slowpokes Bring hacks and hang out Visit our Slack C...