MEP EP#78

Published: July 28, 2017, 4:59 a.m.

No Guru Here

  • Parker
    • Gave a presentation at the MacroFab Engineering meetup about how to turn on your Electronics Project.
      • Removal of power source
      • Physical Power Switch
      • Soft Power Switch
      • Details about MCU sleep modes
      • Will be an article soon.
  • Stephen
    • Science Museum project part 2 - Logger project will be *done* tonight and delivered tomorrow.
    • Sure Step stepper motor driver STP-DRV-80100. RJ11 port for programming the driver. The RS-232 to USB converter Stephen bought from Fry's was counterfeit.
    • The matched transistor IC ladder filter chips FINALLY arrived. Shipped from Germany.
  • Pick Of the Week (POW)
    • ElectroCard
      • Designed by Michael Teeuw
      • OLED business card
      • Used a ATTiny84 but used a SOIC-8 footprint instead of a SOIC-8 Wide
  • Rapid Fire Opinion (RFO)
Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!

Tags: ElectroCard, Hardware meetup, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Intel, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, Podcast, Roomba, Samsung, STP-DRV-80100, Ti