KiCad developer Jon Evans joins the Contextual Electronics podcast hosted by Chris Gammell:
CEP014 – Moving to KiCad V6 with Jon Evans
Jon Evans is a longtime developer on the KiCad project and practicing EE at Formlabs. He joins Chris to talk about the future of KiCad, including features that are coming in V6.
On The Metal is a great podcast for people that enjoy tales of computer engineering and the latest guest is the wonderful Star Simpson!
Welcome back to the second of our three part bonus season of On the Metal: episodes that we recorded after the end of Season 1 but before the onset of the pandemic.
On this episode of On the Metal, we interview Star Simpson, autonomous aviation visionary, insatiably curious engineer, and relentless optimizer. Join us as we learn how a pirated C++ compiler at an impressionable age pushed Star towards electronics, how a friend jockeying for Hacker News karma landed her work on late-night TV — and why you definitely didn’t want to be test pilot on the Piasecki PA-97. And if you find yourself hankering for a good read, you’re in luck: this episode ends with a flurry of book recommendations sure to sate your inner aviation buff.
A long-time friend of OSH Park and parent to Noodle, the talented Sarah Petkus, is on the latest episode of Chris Gammell’s Contextual Electronics podcast:
CEP007 – Combining Art and Technology with Sarah Petkus
Follow more of Sarah’s awesome work on YouTube:
and Sarah’s website:
Welcome Jared Wolff of Circuit Dojo!
Jared is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology (which Chris also considered attending). He did co-ops while there, like we talked about on last week’s episode.
While on co-op at Cisco, he was in the cable group and marveled at the techs doing repairs with magnet wire.
He is an east coast guy at heart, so he moved back to Connecticut eventually
Jared worked at Apple for a while, but the lifestyle is difficult because of time requirements and stressful travel. He was also there when Steve Jobs was still around and there was a bit of over the top hero worship.
Nordic’s early bluetooth chipset was the nRF8001, which was a transceiver over SPI (no micro)
Working for startups was interesting if you thrive on doing a lot of different things
Great new episode of the Embedded.fm podcast:
Adam Wolf (@adamwwolf) of Wayne and Layne (www.wayneandlayne.com) spoke with us about making kits, museum exhibit engineering, working on KiCad, and extraterrestrial art philosophy.
Adam has a personal blog on www.feelslikeburning.com/blog/ as well as a website adamwolf.org. Adam co-wrote Make: Lego and Arduino Projects
If you want to know how to contribute to KiCad libraries, check out their instruction page: kicad-pcb.org/libraries/contribute/
We also mentioned:
Evil Mad Scientist’s Guide to Improving Open Source Hardware Visual Diffs
KiCad Automation Tools: tools to autogenerate KiCad artifacts when committing to git
Kivy: open source Python library for making displays
Cedux: application framework
OKGo Upside Down and Inside Out video and Art in Space project
Jeff Keyzer of Mightyohm.com joins Chris Gammell and Dave Jones on The Amp Hour podcast:
Jeff Keyzer of Mightyohm.com joins Chris and Dave to talk about learning 3D CAD, attending a wide range of conferences, long lead time components, and plans for learning in the new year.
Hip hip hooray for Keyzermas Vacation!
- Jeff has been attending a lot of events in 2019
- CES
- DesignCon
- IEEE EMC in New Orleans
- Chaos Camp
- Teardown
- Superconference
- Jeff is no longer at Valve, since February of 2019.
- He’s been spending his time learning Solidworks and updating his Altium knowledge/license.
The wonderful electronics podcast The Amp Hour recently interviewed Matt Berggren of Autodesk about EAGLE and more:
Did you read all 3000+ articles published on Hackaday this year? We did. And to help catch you up, we preset the Hackaday 2018 Year in Review podcast!
Join us for the podcast, available on all major podcasting platforms, as Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams attempt the impossible task of distilling the entire year into a one hour discussion. We’ve included every story mentioned in the podcast, and a few more, in the show notes here. But since we can’t possibly mention every awesome hack, we encourage you to share your favorites, and pat the writers on the back, by leaving a comment below.
Electrical engineer and PCB designer Andrew Sowa recently joined Chris Gammell on The Amp Hour podcast:
We have the side room (ie including TV) reserved for talks.
7:00-7:10: mingle
7:10-7:50: “Reverse Engineering Midway Zeus” by Philip B
7:50:-8:00: mingle
8:00-8:20: “Using open source tools to reverse engineer and modify UEFI bioses” by Matt M
8:20-9:00: mingle
OSH Park 