When an Alien Craps

February 25, 2022 Hosted by Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

The things that change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. An Alien craps in Space and subsequently this podcast gets made.

Autodesk Eagle DRC Problems

  • Via in Pad Detection
  • Is there a EDA tool that actually detects this?
    • Diptrace
    • Eagle
    • Altium
  • FAB3000
    • MacroFab’s Internal tool set does not
  • What do we do about this as Engineers?
    • Write our own tools of course!

Datasheet and Schematic Woes

  • TI CD4053
  • The actual function of the chip was just not in the datasheet
  • One typo made the datasheet unusable
    • Old datasheets strikes again!
    • This has been fixed sort of
  • What matters when you read a datasheet?

Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

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