MEP EP#284: Real Engineering for a Real Engineer

When to Schedule Python for Engineers Intro Stream?
- This Saturday July 10 at 6PM central
- Twitch URL for the stream
- Overview of the Topics
  - Setting up a python environment on Windows PC
  - Python script talking to an embedded device over serial communication
  - Not a how to write python/code stream
  - Might get into Tkinter for GUI stuff
  - Embedded Device will be Arduino
  - SCPI to handle the coms
- List of items
  - Arduino
  - Windows PC
  - PyCharm

PinoTaur Production Update
- Production is going well, boards are slated to be completed soon
- The Future of the Supply Chain
  - Finding part alts that work for you
  - Finding different temperature ranges, packages, and even packaging

Adventures in Plastic Injection Molding
- We have reached 1 Mega presses
- First analysis - Images below
- All “failures” were due to test bed
- Could probably go more than 1 million presses
  - Will repeat 3 or 4 more times
- New batch of actuators due any day now

Finally Real Engineering
- Ran into my very first honest to god Differential Equation…
- Got around it with excel
- To all college students - Do well but….

What is the most computational intensive work you have had to do on the job?

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