EP#85: Space Engineers VS Caffeinated Chipmunks
Sep 14, 2017•39 min•Ep. 85
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Space Engineers VS Caffeinated Chipmunks
- September 13th, 2017 was the 4th anniversary of MacroFab!
- Hardware and Electronics Engineering Meetup for September event is live!
- How to Design Products with Lean Manufacturing in Mind which Stephen is doing.
- How to Use Mouser's Parametric Search Function
- Free food and beer and Networking!
- "Fan" Art for the Pinotaur!
- Thanks Emmett Naughton, Tom Anderson, and Ekon_Designs!
- Parker
- Fixing Stephens Motorcycle
- 2001 Honda Arrow VT 1100 c3
- Back cylinder does not fire
- Fuel, spark, compression - at least one of those things doesn’t work
- Update week after next weeks episode. MEP EP#87
- Fixing Stephens Motorcycle
- Stephen
- New gear for the podcast
- All in rack-mount format, everything accessible from back side
- Front will be mint
- List of equipment
- MOTU 8pre USB interface
- ART P16 XLR Balanced Patchbay
- 2 of Shure SM7B Vocal Dynamic Microphone, Cardioid
- 2 of Shure SM58-LC Cardioid Dynamic Vocal Microphone
- 2 Mindprint DTC tube preamps and compressor/limiters
- Dual tube channel
- Stephen picked up for $200 valued at $3,000 each
- Parker’s Geophysical services - vintage rack mount
- New gear for the podcast
- POW
- Aylons showed off a really neat way to reflow FPGA BGAs at home in our Slack Channel
- Clothes iron with a thermocouple attached
- Regulate temperature via PID (Person In Dominion)
- Multimeter set in Diode mode
- Connected to an I/O pin on the PCB and GND on PCB
- When the meter beeps you reflowed!
- Aylons showed off a really neat way to reflow FPGA BGAs at home in our Slack Channel
- RFO
- Sewer in London’s East End Menaced by Giant Fatberg - New York Times
- Whitechapel fatberg
- Occupying a sixth of a mile of sewer under Whitechapel Road
- 140 Tonsof fat and wet wipes
- Lee Irving described the experience of encountering a fatberg as overwhelming, with a smell that mixes rotting meat and smelly toilet
- A Question from our CEO Chris Church
- "Do engineers in space helmets work faster, or slower, than caffeinated chipmunks?"
- And a bonus question. “... and which does less damage?”
- Sewer in London’s East End Menaced by Giant Fatberg - New York Times
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