EP#82: Make Electrons Flow Right?

August Hardware & Electronics Engineering Meetup by MacroFab & Mouser Electronics event is live!
- Wednesday August 30th in Houston, Texas
- This month's topic is Lean Manufacturing and Product Design
- Stephen will be giving a talk on "How to Design Electronics with Lean Manufacturing in Mind"
- Guests Scott Hansen and Eric Benzenhoefer of The Idea Tank will be there as well
- We did a podcast with them a couple weeks ago on MEP EP#77
- Come grab some food, beer, and socializing if you’re in the Houston area
Parker
- New EFM8 Article
  - Covers Simplicity Studio and how to get a blinking LED to work!
  - Will be out on August 30th
Stephen
- Synth
  - Red Letter Day! First MEP project complete
  - Parker made the enclosure out of curly maple
  - Mullet Synth: Business in front, Party in the back
  - Ramp pulse, linear wave, needs to be super fast, super accurate
    - Stephen just dead bugged it
  - Other MEP episodes that feature the Synth
- Been with MacroFab for two years now!
- Resources for Synth design
POW
- Project 54/74
  - Seeks to document 54xx/74xx-series logic chips and subfamilies by imaging and annotating their dies and tracing out their schematics
RFO
- Hurricane Harvey coming to Texas
  - How does an electronic engineer or maker survive the apocalypse of no power?

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