EP#72: Fire Sticks

Fire Sticks

• The next Hardware and Electronics Engineering Meetup page is live and will be on June 28th. Please RSVP if you plan on attending!
• The Stanford ValBal launched again with avionics components from MacroFab! You can see a live video on our Facebook page from earlier today and as always, track it with this site. Also check out episode 64 of the MEP where we have Sasha Maldonado and Paige Brown of the Standford Student Space Initiative!
• Parker 
  • Tested a new serial LED board for the pinball platform 
    • CLP6C-FKB LED
    • WS2801
    • Draws 60mA LED
    • 8mA standby current
    • Laser the V-scored PCBs apart
  • Finishing up writing the last of the EFM8 articles that Parker started last October
• Stephen 
  • Synth works but doesn’t. 
    • Not getting ACF, something isn’t biased just right
    • Stephen will rip out some strip board and create an off board filter
    • Final version will have two envelopes
    • The current envelope works but Stephen doesn’t like it
  • Mutable Instruments Shruthi 1
• Pick Of the Week (POW) 
  • PD Buddy Sink : USB Power Delivery for everyone - Hackaday.io Projects 
    • Built by Clayton Hobbs
    • Smart power jack that plugs into Power Delivery enabled power sources
    • Tell it what voltage and current you need and it talks to the to any USB PD power supply to get you the juice
  • Internet of Fidget Spinners - HackADay 
    • Built by Matthias
    • ESP8285 for communitcation
    • Accelerometer to measure wobble and an optical switch to measure the rotation speed
    • POV - persistence of vision for graphics
    • Project Page