MEP EP#207: Beating Dragons with Quarters

MEP EP#207: Beating Dragons with Quarters

Parker

• PinoTaur Revision 2
  
  
  
  • Passes smoke and programming test
  
  
  • Onward to shipping it off to testers and programmers
  
  
  • Have a friend that has a couple empty pinball cabinets
  
  
  • List for Revision 3
    
    
    
    • Change fuse holders to Keystone 3588
    
    
    • Fix a couple none chamfered traces
    
    
    • Update Logos
    
    
    • Full backside artwork
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• What is next for the PinoTaur project?
  
  
  
  • LED Boards using the APA-102C-NEW-260 that I have been testing
  
  
  • Wiring Harness Designs
  
  
  • Audio Amp for the RPI
    
    
    
    • PCM5122 + Class D Amp
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

Stephen

• Simulation of the Week
  
  
  
  • AC analysis
  
  
  • 2nd order low pass filter
  
  
  • Sallen-Key topology
  
  
  • Two examples with different cutoffs and Q
  
  
  • Next week - Monty Carlo and Gaussian distributions of tolerances
  
  
  
  


• Fermentation Controller
  
  
  
  • Resurrecting the walking dead
  
  
  • Schematic is getting updated
  
  
  • Modifying system design for buttons instead of membrane switches
    
    
    
    • This is for robustness
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Will be milling enclosures
    
    
    
    • Most of the layout is complete
    
    
    • Need to position screen