So You Want To Eat Electrons?

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Parker

• Been taking a break from Electronics post Defcon Doom SAO Dash
• Installed aftermarket A/C into the Wagon

Stephen

• Fermentation controller for brewing
  • Processor STM32F – maybe 0 family because UART
  • AMW007 Serial Wifi Module
  • Takachi Fc series Aluminum Control Box
  • 6 DS18B20 probe inputs via an XLR style connector
  • USB micro panel connector
  • Two Nema 5-15 standard 120V outlets (heating and cooling)
  • 120V input via cable gland
  • Graphic LCD Display with tactile buttons on front
  • Thinking about an adhesive backed printed overlay
• Mindprint DTC
  • The first one is fixed! Woohoo!

R.F.O.

• How not to Light Pipe -HAD Fail of the week

  • Making PCB light pipes and unique lighting effects
    • This can be done well
      • The right LEDs
      • Brightness
    • Reminds Parker of SAO style backlit PCBs

• The “terrible” 3 cent MCU – a short survey of sub $0.10 microcontrollers

  • Are cheap MCU’s terrible or do they actually fill a roll?

• So you want to pick a ___

  • Idea for quick look up guides
  • Jfet look up guide – Analog devices?
  • Community Driven Project? What say everyone?

• Chirp Partnership Brings Data-over-Sound to Arduino

  • Similar to dial tones and audio coupled modems
  • Nano 33 Sense board
    • A DSP-optimised Arm Cortex-M4 processor
    • Uses board’s mic as receiver

• New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity

  • microbe consume electrons
  • Parker needs to take more Biology classes clearly

• Elon Musk says he wants to ‘nuke Mars’ and that he plans to make ‘Nuke Mars!’ T-shirts

• Is it ethical to nuke a planet?

• Al Williams and the non-FPGA articles!

  • That is it.

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Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

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