EP#66: Cooking with Gears with MacroFab

Podcast Notes

• Parker 
  • We are excited to announce that our first meetup was a great success! We hosted over 90 guests last Wednesday (April 26 2017) . Some of them shared projects they are working on and everyone had a good time.
  • Thank you to our guest speakers! 
    • Damien Garza – President at ESU, Inc. & President at Greater Houston Manufacturers Association
    • Rick Pettys – Owner and Engineer at SparX Engineering
    • Ray Simar – Professor at Rice Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., IEEE Fellow
  • Next meet up is this month on  May 31. Topic is “Innovating the Energy Industry”!
• Stephen 
  • Design Challenge! Click names to see the submissions! 
    • Thomas Ives from Salem, OR 
      • LM3914 - Dot Bar Display Driver
    • Brett Smith
      • DM74ALS163BM - Counter
      • CD4514BM96 - Demux
    • Dave Sandl
      • CoolRunner II CPLD
      • ADC over I2C
    • Shawn Swift
      • ATTINY88 driving LEDs:
      • Drive LEDs directly with the 28 IO pins
      • Multiplex them and drive 144 LEDs
• RFO 
  • IuT ! IoT - HackADay 
    • Internet of USEFUL Things, not just the Internet of Things.
    • Hack A Day is looking for the best ideas we can find for useful connected devices.
  •  Here’s Why Juicero’s Press is So Expensive - Bolt.io 
    • Tear down of the expensive and controversial Juicero juice press.
    • People are calling it a beautifully engineered device. WRONG!
    • Best comment.  “I’ve been hacking Capri Suns since I was 5. I am a hacker.”
  •  Amazon’s new Echo Look has a built-in camera for style selfies - TechCrunch 
    • AI will decide what is appropriate for millennials to wear.
    • Pave way for Augmented reality dressing rooms?

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!