Episode #386 – An Interview with Andrew Sowa

• Andrew is a “KiCad artist”!
  0h 2m 48s
• Interview with Saar from Boldport
  0h 5m 26s
• The layers of PCBs provide a color palette
  0h 7m 15s
• SVGs are made using Inkscape or illustrator
  0h 8m 27s
• Chris uses Sketch (mac only)
  0h 9m 14s
• Andrew wrote a tutorial about how to render into 6 colors
  0h 9m 42s
• Crosshatch in color
  0h 10m 26s
• Flouresce under UV
  0h 11m 32s
• Benchoff badges
  0h 12m 11s
• Pumping Station: One
  0h 12m 56s
• Tour of Art Institute shops by Supplyframe
  0h 14m 51s
• His day job is fixtures for decorative lighting
  0h 19m 55s
• Working with Contract Manufacturers (Andrew later wrote about this)
  0h 21m 34s
• Pairing power supply and LED board
  0h 22m 59s
• Binning LEDs for color temp consistency
  0h 24m 13s
• Blackbody curve, mixing colors
  0h 24m 59s
• Driver for multiple color
  0h 26m 54s
• Commercial fixtures are variable voltage and current driven, but are about 36V output
  0h 29m 37s
• <70 Hz is epileptic issues
  0h 31m 15s
• 120Hz flicker drives CA regulations
  0h 31m 28s
• Andrew had a crowdfunding campaign for Faust, a high end LED fixture for growing plants
  0h 32m 6s
• This ran (and was unsuccessful in funding) on Indiegogo
  0h 36m 5s
• Chicago aquaponics
  0h 39m 3s
• Nat’l Geo article about growing food in greenhouses
  0h 39m 26s
• Teardown Portland
  0h 43m 45s
• Josh Lifton started Teardown
  0h 44m 41s
• Joe Grand will be giving a talk
  0h 45m 11s
• Bunnie will be giving a talk
  0h 45m 18s
• Chris will be giving a KiCad workshop as well at ToorCamp
  0h 46m 27s
• Andrew wrote a blog post about the art process
  0h 47m 18s
• Andrew will be going to OHS, Superconference
  0h 48m 3s
• 2018 Open Hardware Summit
  0h 48m 51s
• Whitney Merrill talking about Badgelife
  0h 50m 15s
• Kerry Sharfglass about building a badge
  0h 52m 33s
• Hackaday prize
  0h 55m 10s
• Andrew will be building a “Bus Tracker”
  0h 56m 52s
• Andrew was on “Call In show 3”
  0h 58m 57s
• Andrew writes for Supplyframe Hardware
  1h 0m 24s
• Follow Andrew on Twitter as @JunesPHD
  1h 0m 41s