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Welcome Uri Shaked of Wokwi.com!

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Welcome Ken Burns of TinyCircuits!

  • TinyCircuits is located in North East Ohio (NEO), in Akron.
  • Ken also attended the University of Akron
  • Decided to stay in the Midwest
  • Past guest Todd Bailey talked about going to a job for working with graybeards
  • Ken used to work for Avid, which was later bought by Avnet/E14.
  • Since it’s a design shop, he got to try out different types of electronics.
  • This included learning the entire process and taking it to a CM.
  • Wireless HART developed by Rosemount (now Emerson), based on 802.15.4
  • MACtek made a PC based interface device for wireless HART
  • Dust networks bought by LT
  • The standard uses a negotiated time for when to wake up to save power.
  • Pepperl and Fuchs bought out Mactek
  • Decided to leave Avid to start a company
  • Wanted to make a smart sensor platform
  • This was late 2000s (2008), so Arduino was getting started
  • TinyDuino (and the other boards with the same form factor) is 20×20 mm
  • TinyCircuits have launched 3 kickstarters
  • Digispark was 2 months prior
  • This was early kickstarter days. His Kickstarter video recorded rough.
  • The stretch goal was to do mfg, inspired by companies like Dimension Engineering
  • Couldn’t have done it otherwise because of the volumes being low per board
  • Kickstarter money worked as seed money
  • Design was done, but the manufacturing all the problem
  • Example system is a processor board + USB shield + GPS (for tracking cats)
  • Was in MAKE magazine for that kit
  • Everything is open source
  • Didn’t need as many feeders as they got for the PNP machine.
  • Bought a used machine
  • Machine was from 1996
  • It had 80 feeders included and was bought with the reflow oven
  • All delivered for 25K
  • Juki
  • Started with 0402
  • Bought it from a company that was reputable
  • A month of tinkering to get it started
  • The bigger learning curve is making consistent product
  • “Paste is by far the most critical step in the process”
  • Yields started at 40%
  • Need to use fresh paste every time
  • Yield is 99% now
  • Dek 265 helped make things more consistent.  Got it a year after original stuff for $3K
  • They are now running with a Panasonic SP60
  • Got a new PNP 2 years ago, also from Juki.
  • New machines allows small runs or big runs
  • Allows testing of a lot of different products
  • It’s gotten much cheaper to send it out than when they started.
  • Doing manufacturing allows you to do a higher mix, which might be cost prohibitive with sending out to a CM.
  • TinyCircuits has done some CM work where it makes sense. Ken says they’re not going to offer ISO9001 or anything.
  • It makes sense if the customer wants something custom designed
  • Robotic golf caddy
  • Chris asked what customers are asking for at TInyCircuits.
  • Roadmap is higher end stuff
  • Whiskers are breakout sensors.
  • They are now funding on Kickstarter!
  • 5 pin input mux allows you to talk to different versions of the same sensor (up to 16)
  • Dealing with the Tariff
  • Selling batteries on digikey
  • “18650 is the biggest thing we sell on eBay”
  • Selling on digikey and mouser
  • Johnny 5 / firmata (used by past guest Jason Huggins)
  • Latest stuff supports circuit python
  • Little Bits sold to Sphero for unknown amount after raising $70M.
  • Working with group out of MIT
  • tinycircuits.com
  • They work out of the old Goodrich plant in Akron

 

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  • Luke just got back from Maker Faire Bay Area
    • 0h 0m 48s
  • Arduino FPGA board
    • 0h 1m 4s
  • Want lots of serial ports
    • 0h 2m 59s
  • Porting sketches from one micro to another
    • 0h 6m 30s
  • FPGAwars
    • 0h 9m 41s
  • Remake of Pong
    • 0h 10m 35s
  • Need tools for things to be simpler
    • 0h 11m 22s
  • Tim Mithro Ansell
    • 0h 11m 43s
  • Clifford Wolf who started project ICEstorm
    • 0h 11m 51s
  • FPGAwars hashtag
    • 0h 13m 0s
  • APio for building FPGAs
    • 0h 13m 13s
  • Obijuan Academy
    • 0h 13m 54s
  • Learning Verilog
    • 0h 14m 44s
  • Data pipeline vs State machines and control
    • 0h 16m 24s
  • Similar to an “if” statement on a micro
    • 0h 16m 51s
  • Faster to write imperative code
    • 0h 17m 14s
  • Serial port example
    • 0h 18m 3s
  • Low power FPGA collects data, wakes up the micro and then transmits
    • 0h 19m 24s
  • “You’re not writing code any more, you’re describing hardware”
    • 0h 22m 6s
  • Wants to be able to take code and then sythesis in logic
    • 0h 23m 43s
  • Why is FPGA needed in a world of cheap micros
    • 0h 26m 58s
  • Amazing $1 microcontroller
    • 0h 27m 27s
  • When should people switch to an FPGA
    • Customized peripherals
    • Being sure of the hardware that’s going into micr
    • FGPAs have room for change in the future (Especially if you think the protocol will change in the future)
    • 0h 29m 54s
  • Chris has experienced this with a video recorder that sells digital upgrades.
    • 0h 33m 1s
  • Also useful in test jigs to emulate hardware
    • 0h 33m 6s
  • Explaining the hardware
    • 0h 35m 40s
  • A series is 1.2×0.7
    • 0h 36m 32s
  • Same size as Teensy
    • 0h 36m 59s
  • Doesn’t have the end pins like the Teensy
    • 0h 39m 0s
  • Buy the boards on Tindie
    • 0h 39m 44s
  • Difference between a and b series
    • 0h 40m 57s
  • Bugblat tif
    • 0h 41m 7s
  • Learned surface mount soldering
    • 0h 44m 11s
  • Can find purchaseable boards and more on TinyFPGA.com
    • 0h 45m 54s
  • Lattice Mach XO2
  • CPLD replacement
    • 0h 46m 31s
  • No DSP blocks
    • 0h 46m 39s
  • Might be able to fit a micro in A2
    • 0h 47m 23s
  • A2 has a hard SPI block
    • 0h 47m 52s
  • Put store up on tindie for A1
    • 0h 48m 58s
  • Digilent clint cole
    • 0h 49m 35s
  • Having a board on the shelf could help for projects/hackathons/when in a bind
    • 0h 51m 22s
  • There used to be a B2
    • 0h 52m 50s
  • USB connector is SMT
    • 0h 53m 57s
  • BX board is 4 layer with BGA ICE40 81 ball 0.4 pitch
    • 0h 54m 49s
  • Package is meant to be used in a high density interconnect
    • 0h 55m 41s
  • B2 pins are mostly IO
    • 0h 56m 34s
  • Leaves some pins tri-stated and breaks out the deep hard IP blocks
    • 0h 57m 22s
  • Using PCBway with 4/4 process, via is 0.2 mm
    • 0h 59m 49s
  • Wanted more IO for the Bx boards
    • 1h 1m 16s
  • Squished pads narrower and elongated them
    • 1h 1m 26s
  • Everything is on github 
    • 1h 1m 53s
  • Choose your side t-shirt
    • 1h 3m 23s
  • Re-using pins like the SPI flash
    • 1h 5m 4s
  • Once config is complete, the SPI is handed over to the user design
    • 1h 6m 12s
  • Recommends moving to a larger package
    • 1h 7m 30s
  • Decided not to do castellation
    • 1h 9m 12s
  • B series guide
    • 1h 9m 54s
  • BX has a different pin constraint file
    • 1h 10m 46s
  • Recommends using APio on commandline
    • 1h 11m 9s
  • IDE using Atom with APio plugin
    • 1h 11m 18s
  • Using IceCube2 toolchain
    • 1h 12m 4s
  • APio supports mostly pin constraints
    • 1h 15m 17s
  • Symbiflow is the next gen of opensource tools
    • 1h 16m 0s
  • FPGA_dave
    • 1h 16m 56s
  • ECP5 will be the next FPGA
    • 1h 17m 32s
  • Wants to use SERDES
    • 1h 17m 47s
  • Targeting crowdfunding campaign in fall
    • 1h 20m 1s
  • Currently have to preorder the BX, due in July
    • 1h 20m 13s
  • B series has an USB in the FPGA fabric
    • 1h 22m 20s
  • Gets enumerated as a serial port
    • 1h 23m 6s
  • Users can pull in the USB device to their projects
    • 1h 25m 0s
  • Can store metadata in the spi flash that talks to the programmer
    • 1h 25m 38s
  • Like a map file + UID
    • 1h 26m 1s
  • Dave Vandenbout XESS
    • 1h 27m 35s
  • Professor in Egypt doing FPGA online compiler
    • 1h 29m 36s
  • SDR radio people
    • 1h 31m 6s
  • Hackaday Supercoference
    • 1h 33m 14s
  • Ordered 1250 boards, 600 ordered
    • 1h 36m 14s
  • TinyFPGA on Twitter, GitHub, Tindie. Luke is on Hackaday as lukevalenty
    • 1h 36m 30s

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Welcome Earl Sharpe and Collin Kidder of Macchina!

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]]> https://theamphour.com/388-an-interview-with-earl-sharpe-and-collin-kidder/feed/ 1 Earl Sharpe and Collin Kidder of Macchina join Chris to talk about automotive electronics, car hacking, how an ECU works and why you might want to consider tinkering under the hood of your car. Earl Sharpe and Collin Kidder of Macchina join Chris to talk about automotive electronics, car hacking, how an ECU works and why you might want to consider tinkering under the hood of your car. The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones) full false 1:21:24 5402 #379 – An Interview with John Saunders https://theamphour.com/379-an-interview-with-john-saunders/ https://theamphour.com/379-an-interview-with-john-saunders/#comments Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:41:13 +0000 https://theamphour.com/?p=5305 John Saunders of Saunders Machine Works and the NYCCNC YouTube channel joins Chris and Dave to talk about machining, 3D design and the process behind creating a mechanical thing.

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Welcome John Saunders of Saunders Machine Works and NYCCNC!

It was great having John on to tell us about machining and mechanical concerns. While we normally focus on electronics on this show, it’s increasingly important to have a broad view of the product development cycle and the various processes required to get something created for the market. We think NYCCNC helps beginners get a footing in the field. Be sure to subscribe!

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Chris is on vacation, so David (Ledger) is filling in. Hear all about the goings-on at the EEVblog world headquarters and also throughout the larger electronics industry. Show notes will return next week. See the /r/TheAmpHour subreddit for links to some of the things they discussed.

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Welcome, Stefan Dzisiewski-Smith! (@stefandz)

  • Chris and Stefan met at Resonate.io, through mutual friend and former guest Mike Harrison.
  • He studied EE at Imperial College, both undergrad and grad degree.
  • An early project was writing assembly on a PIC16F87. 
  • After that, he was convinced to apply to the Royal College of Art for a multidisciplinary Industrial Design Engineering.
  • It required a portfolio, much of which was created right before applying.
  • The first job out of school was working at a high voltage power supply company. The floor started on fire at one point after an arcing supply.
  • Xray tubes are hard to simulate so they would test real ones in lead lined boxes.
  • One large project after joining Jason Bruges studio was the Matthew Knight arena (Eugene Oregon). This project uses Shutterglass.
  • After leaving the studio, Stefan joined the company that became Buffalo Grid. The initial project concept was a bicycle generator to charge phones in Uganda. It later switched to being solar. The business model was to give away equipment, do profit share
  • Internally, there was an MPPT board from NXP and a BeagleBone Black. These days it’s a more integrated solution and a MPPT unit from “Roc Solid Solar“.
  • Stefan now works at Bare Conductive, which makes capacitive sensing using carbon paint. It was started by 4 RCA grads, including his former roommate Matt.
  • Listeners may have seen the Touch Board an Arduino compatible project with SD card, audio output and a capacitive sensor. It was a key part of their first Kickstarter, which rasied nearly 122K pounds.
  • There will be a new product in September meant for the RPi Zero. Chris mentioned these are hard to get, to which Stefan mentioned the site “Where is my Pi 0?” Chris heard rumor there are some available at his local MicroCenter.
  • Unicorn Poo?.
  • The chip behind it is the MPR121. It was originally created by Freescale but then sold to Resurgent Semi. Stefan wrote a new low level library for Arduino
  • Stefan brought up current events, how Analog is buying Linear Tech.
  • These days Stefan is working on an Induction cooker.
  • You can find more about Stefan and his past work on bycgwtsf.com and you can follow him on Twitter

Many thanks for Stefan sharing his wide variety of knowledge and experience!

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Welcome, Elecia and Chris White from Embedded.fm! Our 3rd Call-in Show for The Amp Hour, this one focused more on the embedded side of things with some other electronics thrown in!

It was great having Chris and Elecia on the show again to help answer questions! Thanks to everyone who called in and chatted with us!

Thanks to Jeremy for the picture of the school bus

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  • Welcome to our two guest hosts!
  • Podcasts!
  • Dan started wanting to make boards that have sensors underwater… now there is the OpenROV community!
  • Chris mentioned a /r/bestof post about life before internet and how things were different.
  • Michael recommends only “Kind of knowing something”, because it forces people to be comfortable with discomfort.
  • Dan has been working on “Arduino From Scratch” posts, spec’ing cap for output and wondering about the ESR of capacitors (Chris had no idea)
  • Mentors are critical for learning electronics.
  • Niche communities like /r/arduino and various stack exchange sites are great resources. Forums can be dicey (especially if you ask rookie questions without searching first…) but are a great localization of experts.
  • Thinking about getting started tomorrow for the first time? Michael recommends starting with a soldering kit.
  • The recently announced ($5) Raspberry Pi Zero kit will bring in new people to the hobby/field. 

Thanks to Dan and Michael for joining Chris on the show this week! Follow @RheingoldHeavy and @ProgElecAcademy on twitter for more!

Thanks to Lucas Santana for the picture of the (intact) elephant

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Welcome, Luke Beno of Analog.io!

  • Analog.io is a data collection and charting website where you can view and share datastreams with others.
  • Luke entered Analog.io (including a hardware component) into The Hackaday Prize.
  • This is used for keeping track of lots of data over time, but Luke uses it for tracking beekeeping. 
  • The site does not directly collect data, currently Analog.io pulls mainly from data.sparkfun.com. That server runs the open source phant.io.
  • Luke says it’s easiest to get started using an Electric Imp or a Particle board.
  • The boards make http requests which get recorded by phant.io. Notification based upon trigger levels is not currently supported. 
  • As platforms get larger, holes in server reliability become more apparent.
  • Dave and Chris have been reading Free by former guest Chris Anderson.
  • One example of a likely purchaser of services would be monitoring temp/humidity of vacation home (making sure the heat isn’t broken). 
  • There was a kickstarter about a bee hive with a direct tap.
  • Other similar platforms include xively and thingspeak.
  • Luke has a tutorial for getting up and running using a tiny temp/humidity board and an electric imp. 
  • The service used to be called imp.guru, but changed names.
  • The electric imp uses a server/agent scheme. 
  • You don’t always need to use an Electric Imp, it just makes compiling and downloading (or updating) code easier.
  • Instead, Luke targeted a lower power solution using a sensor node built with an MSP430 and an NRF24 radio. The base had another NRF24 radio and an ESP8266 to talk to the wifi network. 
  • Google is making a new router called OnHub.
  • Chris sees parallels to Distributed Control Systems.
  • The day of recording is BTTF day (Oct 21st, 2015).
  • Dave was very concerned about power consumption.
  • MQTT has a “broker” that acts like a satellite. Anyone subscribed to the broadcast message will get the data packet that is submitted by a device.
  • SmartThings was bought by Samsung and acts as a connected home router.
  • LoRA has 7 mile low power RF coverage. There is a kickstarter for this with the Things Network.
  • APRS is a ham radio version of multi node system. 
  • Luke utilized the 43oh.com forums to build his system. 
  • Software for his stack
    • He programmed using Energia for the MSP430 (arduino style).
    • He used arduino for esp8266
    • The Sparkfun server running phant.io is NodeJS
    • Analog.io is Ruby on Rails.
    • In browser processing and mapping is javascript/angular.js
  • In his day job, Luke is an ASIC architect for Triad Semiconductor.
  • He attempted to answer why aren’t there low pin FPGAs with tons of resources like Dave wants (some are starting to hit the market).

 

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  • Chris is traveling and thinking about his portalab once again. This may require a set of modular test equipment built into the case.
    [tube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIEeyKCg_2c[/tube]
  • Perhaps a “MIDI for control surfaces” for portable test equipment would be a good solution going forward?
  • Dave’s intern, also named Dave, has been working out well. He has been using SolidWorks to design a case for a project. 3d design skills continue to be valuable in the marketplace.
  • New CAD makers have been entering the market. Extremely well funded OnShape has a browser based CAD tool (similar to Upverter) that has been in development for 3 years. Perhaps this is the future?
  • Chris has been learning Autodesk Fusion 360, also free to use for new folks
  • Giving away student licenses seems like a no brainer. Dave’s intern learned Altium and Solidworks because it was free to students. Chris mentioned that small companies may struggle even giving away their software.
  • Chris wrote about using Github and KiCad together. This continues to be a good tool combination.s
  • The Arduino group has been embroiled in trademark legal issues. Read about it from Massimo here or from the court documents here.
  • This has interesting implications in the (open) hardware industry as people/companies will likely:
    1. Get more paranoid about up front agreements.
    2. Innovate and collaborate less openly because of potential downsides.
  • Mooooore consolidation in the electronics industry
  • You can dream up new circuits…using psychedelics? Chris has used a floatation tank to think about control system problems.

Thanks to BusinessSarah for the Venn diagram picture

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]]> https://theamphour.com/230-prepping-for-hoverboards-gallionic-github-gabble/feed/ 8 Dave and Chris discuss the coming year, the promise of hoverboards, iterative design, CAD software, revision control and the importance of presentation when trying to get hired. Dave and Chris discuss the coming year, the promise of hoverboards, iterative design, CAD software, revision control and the importance of presentation when trying to get hired. The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones) full false 1:22:31 3974 #226 – An Interview with Colin Karpfinger – Blendling Bean Brio https://theamphour.com/226-an-interview-with-colin-karpfinger-blendling-bean-brio/ https://theamphour.com/226-an-interview-with-colin-karpfinger-blendling-bean-brio/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:56:11 +0000 http://www.theamphour.com/?p=3935 Colin Karpfinger, founder of Punch Through Design (the makers of the Light Blue Bean) joins Dave and Chris to talk designing bluetooth products, productizing consulting work and how to balance everything.

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Welcome, Colin Karpfinger of Punch Through Design!

  • Colin is from Milwaukee (woot, midwest). He went to school in Minneapolis and started his consulting company there. There is still a PunchThrough office there.
  • Their first official product was the LightBlue app, a development application on the iPhone.
  • The first hardware product was the Light Blue Bean, a bluetooth communicating, Arduino compatible development board. It costs about $26-$30 per unit.
  • The Light Blue Bean integrates their other hardware product, the LBM313 module. These cost about $8 per module.
  • They had to go through FCC cert. Also IC, CE, MIC, KCC.
  • The general costs to get certified was $40K and 2-3 months.
  • There is also a board that helps to breakout and test the Light Blue Bean, the Vegas Lounge
  • PunchThrough rolled their own crowdfunding solution when launching the bean (no longer available but you can view their backer updates on their blog). They also ticked the price up each day. This resulted in pre-selling over 9000 units.
  • Apple salts the BT id for security.
  • The Light Blue Bean was manufactured in Korea and delivered via a fulfillment service.
  • The testing of the beans was gamified for the manufacturing staff. They showed some of these on their Vimeo site.

    LightBlue Bean Test Jig     from Punch Through on Vimeo.
  • The LBM313 uses 0201 parts and has square pads under the module. This can be soldered directly to another PCB. The Light Blue Bean is only a 2 layer board.
  • The modules uses the CC2540 chipset from TI.
  • The latency is one of the limiting factors. The Miselu (iPad keyboard launched on kickstarter) needed to control for this.
  • Another music based product, the Retronyms Wej is another music based product. It is a  tabletop, open source MIDI unit.
  • So why Apple support to start with? It’s the Bluetooth stack. Apple added non-approved features and now they are getting pushed back into the bluetooth standard.
  • These relate to the central and peripheral roles – sensor is usually peripheral, phone is usually the central. The iPhone can be both.
  • The LightBlue app can simulate hardware. This is probably why FitBit recommended it as the “Find my hardware” app of choice.
  • There is now an Android SDK for BTLE. The Windows based development tools are also coming.
  • Now it is possible to run your Light Blue Bean apps from an iPhone or iPad. Interestingly, the compiler isn’t on the iPhone/iPad app, it’s on the cloud (and can also sync sketches with your Dropbox).
  • Punch Through is hiring! Send a resume and portfolio of projects to info at punchthrough dot com.
  • They are also giving away beans to the top 10 holiday bean usage ideas!

You can follow Colin or Punch Through on Twitter. Many thanks to Colin for being on the show and telling us about balancing product design and consulting and the Light Blue Bean! Be sure to pick one up for yourself and try it out today!

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]]> https://theamphour.com/226-an-interview-with-colin-karpfinger-blendling-bean-brio/feed/ 3 Colin Karpfinger, founder of Punch Through Design (the makers of the Light Blue Bean) joins Dave and Chris to talk designing bluetooth products, productizing consulting work and how to balance everything. Colin Karpfinger, founder of Punch Through Design (the makers of the Light Blue Bean) joins Dave and Chris to talk designing bluetooth products, productizing consulting work and how to balance everything. The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones) full false 1:14:31 3935 #189 – An Interview with Marcus Schappi – Kit Ketch Kenophobia https://theamphour.com/189-an-interview-with-marcus-schappi-kit-ketch-kenophobia/ https://theamphour.com/189-an-interview-with-marcus-schappi-kit-ketch-kenophobia/#comments Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:13:18 +0000 http://www.theamphour.com/?p=3659 Marcus Schappi of Little Bird and formerly of Ninja Blocks stops by to talk about his newest kickstarter, the MicroView. An "Arduino At Heart" device with a build in OLED screen for quick feedback for your devices.

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Welcome, Marcus Schappi!

  • Marcus and Maddy Schappi started Geek Ammo and are producing the MicroView as a Kickstarter (but only 5000 of them).
  • They also own and run Little Bird Electronics, the largest Australian distributor of Open Source Hardware.
  • Marcus does customer support and is tempted by “Let Me Google That For You” — http://lmgtfy.com
  • They run the business out of their house! Which is even crazier when you realize they carry more than 10,000 SKUs (Stock keeping units)
  • Prior to the latest Kickstarter venture, they started Ninja Blocks. It’s based upon the BeagleBone (original) and raised more than $100K.
  • The idea behind NB was to act similar to IFTTT.com (“If this, then that”), but for hardware/real world interactions.
  • They were able to run this campaign on Kickstarter before it came to Australia by incorporating in Delaware as a US company.
  • They were assisted and supported by StartMate, a resource for Aussie companies.
  • At first, the idea of an Arduino with a built in display was an off-hand joke. However, they wanted it to be real (like Chris wanted with the Tacocopter).
  • Early protos were done with the $4K pick and place from Shenzhen.
  • The MicroView will also have an interactive course for iPad. There are 11 modules to get people started.
  • When submitting the project to Kickstarter, they didn’t believe the picture was a prototype because it was so shiny. In fact it was a machined and polished CNC.
  • Cases are a difficult problem to solve; with the Ninja blocks, they 3D printed each and every case (more than 1000!). They did this inside the Little Bird house and Marcus’s child may be as much as 10% ABS plastic because of it.
  • Marcus is no longer involved in the day-to-day operations of Ninja Blocks. They did a $1m investment round and recently launched the very shiny Ninja Sphere on Kickstarter.
  • The MicroView will be manufactured by Sparkfun. The engineering team was our guest a few months back and it’s easy to see why such a talented team is growing into such a powerhouse company!
  • Sparkfun also produced the Makey Makey, a popular MIDI interface tool based on the Arduino.
  • Marcus was able to convince Nate by making an analogy to the AMG/Mercedes Benz relationship.
  • Arduino is now incorporated in Switzerland (the Delaware of Europe!)
  • The MicroView is participating in the “Arduino at Heart” program, a quasi-licensing/approval that alerts users that the guts of a device are hackable.
  • It’s about creating products that “just work”. Marcus likes the Electric Imp, which gives users wifi inside an SD card.
  • What did Marcus learn from the online game Clicking Bad? Distributor networks really matter! And Sparkfun has a LARGE network.
  • Apparently 30% of Kickstarter backers are outside the US. At least for Marcus and Dave’s campaign.
  • Sparkfun are outpacing their competitors. Marcus and Dave wonder if anyone would/could buy them?

Thanks so much to Marcus for “debuting” his Kickstarter project on The Amp Hour! As of the posting of the show, the campaign already crossed the $45K mark! Jeesh, so much for a “debut”!

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Welcome, Elecia White of Logical Elegance and the Making Embedded Systems podcast (and book)!

  • Elecia’s wonderful book is called “Making Embedded Systems” and is published by O’Reilly. You can get a discount by going to this site and using the code ‘authd’
  • The notebooks discussed are the SNCO 2001
  • Her career so far has taken her to the depths of management and back. She was a full time manager at Shotspotter.
  • Dave loves it when his reputation precedes him to an interview (shocker!), Elecia doesn’t.
  • Want to get into embedded? Start with Arduino.
  • Elecia sees lots of projects using the Cortex-M3, was surprised the Cortex-M0 didn’t do better.
  • Unless a software stack is required (ethernet, bluetooth), Elecia doesn’t like RTOS’s because they often still don’t run fast enough (or aren’t deterministic enough).
  • She has worked wit the c2000/Piccolo family and likes it for math heavy operations because of the DSP.
  • The compilers aren’t getting any less expensive…or better. She prefers the GUI of Visual Studio but no embedded IDEs seem to have the same functionality.
  • Power optimization is a challenging/fun part of Elecia’s jobs as well.
  • She worked on some of the Fitbit devices out in the market today (one, flex, force).
  • Also some of the toy lines at LeapFrog, such as the Violet.
  • A common frustration among embedded engineers is when people expect embedded systems to be like their iPhones.
  • Self commenting code is something to strive for, but is unrealistic.
  • Elecia believes commented out code snippets should be deleted (and tracked by revision control).
  • “If code is the main meeting that is happening, comments are the backchatter that happens between engineers over IM”
  • She doesn’t dislike Git, the processing being used when she first started with it was poor.
  • El likes touch feedback and sees haptics as a new area for innovation, especially for VR/AR.
  • Writing a book is tough…she did it 3-5 hours a day for 6 months…while consulting!
  • Making Embedded Systems was similar to the O’Reilly Head First series.
  • Going to be at the EE Live event in April? You can go watch Elecia do a teardown and give a talk about IoT being disappointing.
  • Elecia and Christopher have a Nest Thermostat and a Smoke Detector and they aren’t quite living up to expectations. At least not $3.2B expectations from the consumer perspective.

It was great to have Elecia come tell us more about the embedded world and about her vast experience in the field! Be sure to check out her podcast and all of the wonderful guests and banter on the show!

Added extra, which Dave thinks is hilarious: The Choke-A-Chicken Novelty Toy.

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]]> https://theamphour.com/187-an-interview-with-elecia-white-wirewove-worshipping-wookieist/feed/ 17 Elecia White of Logical Elegance and the Making Embedded Systems podcast stops by to talk bare metal programming, C++, designing gadgets, better interrupts and more! Elecia White of Logical Elegance and the Making Embedded Systems podcast stops by to talk bare metal programming, C++, designing gadgets, better interrupts and more! The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones) full false 1:42:02 3648 #167 – An Interview with Adam Wolf – Brick & Board Biuners https://theamphour.com/167-an-interview-with-adam-wolf-brick-board-biuners/ https://theamphour.com/167-an-interview-with-adam-wolf-brick-board-biuners/#comments Wed, 16 Oct 2013 03:45:07 +0000 http://www.theamphour.com/?p=3222 Adam Wolf of Wayne and Layne joins Chris to talk about Lego, Arduino, Open Hardware, Linux, KiCad and developing for developing areas!

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Welcome Adam Wolf of Wayne and Layne!

  •  Wayne and Layne started when Adam and Matthew met…back in 6th grade in Minnesota! Later they both attended the University of Minnesota.
  • Adam now works at Digi, the makers of Xbee. More specifically, he works helping people develop embedded solutions at
    Etherios (formerly Spectrum).
  • One of the projects he worked on for an extended period was Android. It’s useful to quickly bolt a GUI onto a product.
  • Chris has briefly played with Android using one of the Liquidware dev kits.
  • Adam and Matthew developed the Bricktronics shield to offer a low cost entry to combining Lego and Arduino. This was designed with John Baichtal, who co-wrote The Cult of Lego.
  • The kit is based on the huge interest in Lego Mindstorms. There are 550 teams FIRST Lego Robotics teams that compete each year…in Minnesota alone! How crazy is that??
  • The standard kit includes the NXT, which has an ARM SAM 9 chip on board. The newer EV3 runs full Linux.
  • Wayne and Layne had problems with audience culture clash at the beginning, especially before their book MAKE: Lego and Arduino Projects was fully released to the public.
  • Adam is not a member of the KiCad Dev team; however, he does a nightly build of KiCad and helps guide others to doing the same.
  • He also watches the dev mailing list regularly (an act all in and of itself) and noted that there is talk about change in library lookup (possibly online libraries and immediately EAGLE compatibility)
  • This stems from people being paid to work on KiCad, such as the awesome people at CERN.
    [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxHDAHpR5Ls[/tube]
  • There are many new features in the pipeline, it’s all about whether you want to try them out in your test builds.
  • Adam and Matthew recently were featured at an event that helps promote STEM for women in Africa. Their Blinky POV kit was featured and has been built all of the world. 10s of thousands have now been sold!
  • Another popular W&L product is the video game shield, which uses Wii nunchucks to control a B&W video output.
  • The nunchuck uses i2c, but the problem is they’re always at the same address since they’re normally connected to a Wii controller.
  • Newer projects work with the ChipKit PIC32 Arduino compatible board. There is also compatibility with theFubarino mini and the Fubarino sd.
  • These were developed in conjuction with Brian Schmalz who works with Sparkfun and sells some stuff through their store.
  • The new boards can handle audio by storing it in SRAM and doing some manipulation of memory locations.
  • Microchip makes i2c and a SPI SRAM that makes it easy to bolt more memory on (compared to squeezing down to an Arduino’s tiny memory)
  • Adam’s personal (somewhat dormant) site is FeelsLikeBurning.com. He also regularly updates his Google+ page (especially at the beginning of the year).
  • Adam and Matthew are also offering a special offer to listeners of The Amp Hour. Go to WayneAndLayne.com/TAH and enter the code “tahoct” for 10% off kits.

Many thanks to Adam for being on the show! Next time we’ll have Dave and Matthew as well!

Also, if you haven’t yet, don’t forget to buy a white version of our logo t-shirt from The Amp Hour! The campaign ends on Thursday!

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]]> https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-55-shonky-stiver-stultiloquence/feed/ 26 We start a new segment about ridiculous electronics products being sold to the public. They also discuss DIY going mainstream and the money associated with it. We start a new segment about ridiculous electronics products being sold to the public. They also discuss DIY going mainstream and the money associated with it. The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones) full false 1:05:09 935 #43 – An Interview with Jeff Keyzer and Jeremy Blum – Audacious Arduino Arguments https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-43-audacious-arduino-arguments/ https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-43-audacious-arduino-arguments/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 02:26:35 +0000 http://www.theamphour.com/?p=812 Dave, Chris, Jeff Keyzer and Jeremy Blum discuss the latest in electronics news, including Google's decision to use the Arduino.

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Thanks to Jeff and Jeremy for sitting in with us this week! If you’ve got comments about anything we discussed on this week’s show, let us know in the comments (or hit me, Dave, Jeff or Jeremy up on Twitter).  Be sure to subscribe using the buttons in the upper right corner (RSS or email) to be alerted as soon as the next episode is released.  Thanks for listening!

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]]> https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-43-audacious-arduino-arguments/feed/ 60 Dave, Chris, Jeff Keyzer and Jeremy Blum discuss the latest in electronics news, including Google's decision to use the Arduino. Dave, Chris, Jeff Keyzer and Jeremy Blum discuss the latest in electronics news, including Google's decision to use the Arduino. The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones) full false 1:06:01 812 #26 – The Ben & Jeri Show https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-26-the-ben-jeri-show/ https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-26-the-ben-jeri-show/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:37:58 +0000 http://www.theamphour.com/?p=594 Chris and Dave ended up talking about Element 14, Ben Heck and Jeri Ellsworth enough that they decided to name show 26 after them.

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]]> https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-26-the-ben-jeri-show/feed/ 19 Chris and Dave ended up talking about Element 14, Ben Heck and Jeri Ellsworth enough that they decided to name show 26 after them. Chris and Dave ended up talking about Element 14, Ben Heck and Jeri Ellsworth enough that they decided to name show 26 after them. The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones) full false 1:03:30 594 #11 – Ardui…no Dave This Week? https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-11-ardui-no-dave-this-week/ https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-11-ardui-no-dave-this-week/#comments Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:19:15 +0000 http://www.theamphour.com/?p=269 Dave is rightly saving his voice for his upcoming trip to the US! We were very lucky to have Jeff Keyzer of Mighty Ohm join me in Dave's stead this week.

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]]> NOTE: I apologize about the sound quality on this recording. Thanks to the Zoom H1 autogain (very bad thing) and recording in a cubby like desk at my house (nearly as bad as the autogain) I sound like a mouth breathing, key pounding cubby troll. I’m very sorry and I tried to fix it best I could. If you hear the occasional ramp up of background noise or mouth breathing, forgive me.

So did my Dave Jones impression fool you? No? I thought it was pretty bad as well. Dave is unfortunately under the weather and was not up to doing a show this week. In all honesty, he is rightly saving his voice for his upcoming trip to the US! Very exciting for him! And of course very exciting for Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory, as Dave Jones will be attending his taping! I know I’d be pumped!

Anyway, we were very lucky to have Jeff Keyzer of Mighty Ohm join me in Dave’s stead this week. Jeff explained more about his background during the show, so onto the links!

If we missed anything or if you have other magazines that are similar to Silicon Chip or Elektor, please leave them in the comments. Thanks again to Jeff for helping out this week!

NOTE: I apologize about the sound quality on this recording. Jeff actually went out of his way to try and get a good setup but then I go use my Zoom H1 with the autogain on (very bad thing) in a cubby like desk at my house (nearly as bad as the autogain). I’m very sorry and will try to fix it next week.

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]]> https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-11-ardui-no-dave-this-week/feed/ 14 Dave is rightly saving his voice for his upcoming trip to the US! We were very lucky to have Jeff Keyzer of Mighty Ohm join me in Dave's stead this week. Dave is rightly saving his voice for his upcoming trip to the US! We were very lucky to have Jeff Keyzer of Mighty Ohm join me in Dave's stead this week. The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones) full false 1:03:11 269 #2 – Critical Mass https://theamphour.com/show-2-critical-mass/ https://theamphour.com/show-2-critical-mass/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:18:09 +0000 http://www.theamphour.com/?p=16 We discussed MAKE and their Maker Faire, as well as some news about mineral deposits around the world.

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]]> Show 2 was recorded the week of August 2nd, 2010. This show was a bit more focused than the first show, but we still tended to ramble a bit. Ah well, nobody’s perfect.

Links discussed in the show:

* MAKE magazine’s review of Maker Faire Detroit (learning to solder)
* NYT article about mineral deposits in Afghanistan
* Antipasto Hardware Blog — Graphing Calculator on the Beagle Touch
* Anduino Wiki Page
* Maker Faire NYC Tickets

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