MEP EP#184: Like a Satellite Out of Hell

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Parker

• Trophy Software?
  • WiFi connectivity - Comitup
  • Python GUI - guizero
• PinoTaur
  • LED boards using the APA-102C-NEW-260
    • Make them low cost and easy to assemble
  • Build up 2 more REV1 for testing purposes
• Next project Sponsored by Mouser
  • IoT Compressor revitalization
  • Started on MEP EP#68
  • Uses a Particle Photon
  • PX3AN2BS250PAAAX
    • HoneyWell Pressure Transducer
  • 6225AXXSZS-DC3
  • Need a new enclosure that is industrial and ruggedized

Stephen

• Linear power supply design
  • Roz transformer and the appropriate taps
  • How do you estimate the dc output voltage given a transformer spec?
  • Vdc = 2*Vmax/pi
  • Power supplies for valve amplifiers Page 38
    • Very cool chart for determining DC output voltage from rectifiers with series resistance
  • http://www.hammondmfg.com/pdf/5c007.pdf
• Drilling and tapping the trophy
  • • Just got the parts day of recording

R.F.O.

• Glasgow tongue has a taste for whisky
  • Glasgow University researchers have made a bionic tongue which can tell the difference between Glenfiddich, Laphroaig, Glen Marnoch and between different vintages of each brand sampled at the ages 12, 15 and 18.
• So, you want to build a CubeSat?
  • Al Williams covered this topic!
  • Lots of CubeSat data here
  • What kind of CubeSat would you design?
• How to Master PCB Repairs and Why You Should
  • Hardest thing about repairing circuit boards is knowing what the part was before it let the smoke out!

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