EP#108: Crazy Transistor Contraptions
Feb 21, 2018•59 min•Ep. 108
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Episode description
- Stephen
- Midi Woes
- Atleast the Teensy is fast
- Parker
- DAC testing update
- Interesting results looking at the spectrum analysis of the DACs
- Film caps suppress harmonics better but let more low end frequency through
- "Audio" grade parts have a higher response over the frequency band
- All the DAC load outs have a flat frequency response
- Blind testing resulted in listeners picking the cheaper passive load out for the DAC saying it sounded more "spacious"/"open"/"dynamic" compared to the film caps.
- DAC testing update
- Rapid Fire Opinion R.F.O.
- Discrete Pong Project Goes Big, Adds a Player
- Two-player color Pong game with audio completely from discrete components
- EEVBlog build thread
- Stealth Winners of the new iPhoneX
- PCB Sandwich
- mSAP
- modified semi-additive processes for PCB assembly
- Can get traces down to .6 to .4mils
- PDF with good diagrams on how mSAP works
- Is coding required for Electrical Engineering?
- Get on our Slack channel and join the conversation!
- Discrete Pong Project Goes Big, Adds a Player
Tags: Coding in Electrical Engineering, electronics podcast, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, MIDI, mSAP, PCB Sandwich, PCM5122, Podcast, Pong, Teensy
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