- July Hardware & Electronics Engineering Meetup by MacroFab & Mouser Electronics event is live! Come grab some food, beer, and socializing if you’re in the Houston area
- Previous Podcast Updates
- Parker
- With the success of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module LVDS test board. I started putting together the PinHeck REV8 board
- More Python and OpenCV work (fun!)
- Have the webcam taking pictures
- Auto crops and records all the images of parts
- Looking into a higher resolution camera, more info on that later
- Stephen
- Parts for the filter finally shipped!
- Started putting together the boards
- Like the multi colored jumpers
- Veroboard – Strip Board Mouser Part Number 854-ST2
- 80 x 100 mm with mounting holes
- Use a 7/32″ drill bit and a jeweler’s drill to cut traces and brillo pad to clean up
- Going to add a tube preamp to the synth output
- Already have the preamp built. Just need to connect it.
- Schematic
- Tritrix speakers and the nutube amp.
- Kicking up the nutube amp again
- The speakers are almost built just need to paint and finish
- 3d printed a plate for soldering the crossover to
- Pick Of the Week (POW)
- Nuvoton NAU7802 – found on the Nice Chips Subreddit
- Precision low-power 24-bit ADC , with an onboard low-noise PGA, onboard oscillator, and a precision 24-bit sigma-delta ADC . Capable of up to 23-bit ENOB (Effective Number Of Bits) performance.
- SOP-16 or DIP-16
- I2C
- $2.22 in singles
- Gotcha @10SPS, PGA=1
- Rapid Fire Opinion (RFO)
- At Last, (Almost) A Cellphone With No Batteries! – HackADay
- University of Washington
- The first-ever battery free cell phone, able to make calls by scavenging ambient power.
- Not really a cellphone. Its really a remote handset for a base station.
- 3.5 microwatts and transmits 31 ft away.
- Evaluation boards for USB type-C power delivery – Electronics Weekly
- Rohm has announced USB Power Delivery (USBPD) transmitter/receiver evaluation boards.
- 15 to 100W
- All about circuits video
- BM92A21MWV-EVK-001 is the one you want
- Availability: Now
- Pricing: TBD
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Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig
Special-thanks-to-whixr-over-at-Tymkrs-for-the-intro-and-outro!