MacroFab Engineering Podcast
Conversations about electronics, hardware, and the engineering life. Hosted by Parker Dillmann and Stephen Kraig.
FTC “Nixing The Fix” Report
Earlier this year the FTC released a report on the current status quo of repairing manufactured items. Stephen and Parker break down this report!
Let The Robots Do It
Is grinding out math problems just busy work? Is the current state of Math class curriculum hampering the real life deployment of engineering skills?
Real Engineering for a Real Engineer
A decade after graduating college, Stephen finally did a differential equation for his job! That is some real engineering I tell you what.
You Adapt. You Overcome. You Put in a Pull Request.
A custom, open source, DIY multimeter? Parker and Stephen go down the rabbit hole of putting down design requirements and what open source means.
When Print(); Just Works
The print function of a programming language. Used by engineers everywhere as a universal debugging tool. Is there a better way maybe... but nah.
Through Hole Manufacturing
Through hole assembly for PCBs might be great for low volume prototypes but how do you scale up that process? What design considerations are needed?
Don’t Worry About It
Right to Repair is going global and Stephen might have solved his injection molded component's void by tweaking the mold design.
Resume and Interview Tricks for Engineers
Need to brush up that resume or are you a fresh engineer graduate looking for your first job? This podcast episode is full of stuff you wanna hear!
Design With Manufacturing – Altium and MacroFab
Ted Pawela, Altium's Chief Ecosystem Officer, joins the podcast with Chris Church to discuss Altium's participation in MacroFab's recent fundraising.
Bunch of Nibbles
Measuring clock drift. What is a good way to automate measuring this? This and more in this project update heavy podcast episode!
Skippy Documentation
Are Stephen's LM338 regulators fake? Parker uses X-Ray vision to find out the answer! This and an Adventure in Plastic Injection Molding this week.
Log Stepping Revision Control
How do you record and implement bodges and changes to your PCB layout? All at once or as you find them in your design? Parker and Stephen discuss.