EP#93: Glue A Penny On It

• Episode 100 is coming up! It’ll be a Q&A session - so send in your questions to podcast@macrofab.com
• 2nd Annual Star Wars Xmas Special Engineering Podcast. Check out the video from last year!
• Parker 
  • Update on the Jeep Electronics 
    • LM22678TJ-5.0/NOPB
      • 5V switcher regulator with 5A capacity
      • Used Ti Webench to design it
    • ADP3338AKCZ-3.3-RL
      • 3.3V LDO Linear Regulator with 1A capacity
    • CU40045-UW1J
      • 40 x 4 VFD
      • Propeller code for driving this display
    • Keep Tabs on this project on github!
  • Decent cheap toggle switches on Amazon
• Stephen 
  • Science Museum Update
    • Video screen that plays animation - in house engineer setting it up and built an Arduino circuit around Stephen’s project
  • DipTrace update 3.2 
    • You can now rotate and flip by groups, when making patterns WOOT!
• Rapid Fire Opinion (RFO) 
  • Solder? What is the best kind? What about Flux?
  • The Amazing $1 Microcontroller - Jay Carlson
    • Best comparison of MCUs I have seen
    • Goes through IDEs, Performance, Peripherals of each IC
  • Alibaba buys into CPU company to support AliOS - Electronics Weekly
    • Alibaba has bought a stake in a Chinese microprocessor manufacturer to promote development of of processors which support Alibaba’s operating system – AliO
    • AliOS has two flavours – called AliOS Cloud Link for cloud computing, and AliOS Things for IoT

Tags: AliOS, Amazing $1 Microcontroller, electronics podcast, flux, Houston Museum of Natural Science, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, Podcast, solder