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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
• 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
• 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!
• 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?”

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!

Tags: MacroFab, MEP, Podcast