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Chris and Dave discuss big electric vehicles, finding unmarked parts, test equipment, olive oil, and more!
#591 – Olive-a The World
#576 – A literal trainwreck
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Trains are a continual source of fascination for nerds young and old. This week, Chris and Dave discuss recent train experiences and also talk about new chip fabs, shuttering IoT networks, asset tracking for the masses, and really old software.
#566 – Switching Converter Engineering with Carmen Parisi
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Carmen Parisi, Staff Applications Engineer at Renesas, joins Chris to talk about how high current regulators work and what it’s like testing and supporting those chips for a wide variety of customers.
#559 – Occam’s Engineering Razor
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This week, Dave and Chris discuss troubleshooting, both in the abstract and in the literal. Dave has been troubleshooting his solar panel, and Chris has been building up new 3D printing metholodologies. Also semiconductor manufacturing, workshops, project management, and more!
#549 – Creative Engineering with Shrouk El-Attar
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Shrouk El-Attar is an electronics designer, refugee, belly dancer, activist and podcaster. She joins Chris to talk about creating electronics for interesting problem solving, including FemTech products, robots and art.
#536 – NFT Schematics
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This week Dave and Chris discuss the value of a schematic, how chip fabs recover from shutdowns, getting started projects, 3D printing with resin, operating systems and much more!
#535 – Efinix FPGAs with Sammy Cheung
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Sammy Cheung, CEO of Efinix, joins Chris to talk about FPGAs. They discuss designing reconfigurable devices into products that do not traditionally have FPGAs, but will benefit from enhanced capabilities like Computer Vision.
#519 – Simulating Embedded Hardware with Michael Gielda
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Michael Gielda of Antmicro joins Chris to talk about simulating embedded hardware, from the microcontroller core all the way out to multiple units communicating on a mesh network (and beyond). Their open source tool (Renode) enables better firmware testing and more reliable systems.
#517 – Depth and AI with Brandon Gilles and Brian Weinstein
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Brandon Gilles and Brian Weinstein of Luxonis (makers of the DepthAI) join Chris to talk about how embedded computing will change in the next 5 years due to depth perception and AI image classification. The DepthAI board uses the Intel Movidius Myriad X chip, which enables many of these advances.
#502 – Lowest Common Denominator Design
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This week Dave and Chris discuss detailed teardowns of EVs, choosing PCB fabrication based on minimum tolerances, PCB stackup, large chip companies merging, and the untimely passing of an engineering icon.