Podcast Notes The next Hardware and Electronics Engineering Meetup page is live and will be on June 28th. Please RSVP if you plan on attending! The Stanford ValBal launched again with avionics components from MacroFab! You can see a live video on our Facebook page from earlier today and as always, track it with this site. Also check out episode 64 of the MEP where we have Sasha Maldonado and Paige Brown of the Standford Student Space Initiative! Parker Tested a new serial LED board for the pinball platform CLP6C-FKB LED WS2801 Draws 60mA LED 8mA standby current Laser the V-scored PCBs apart Finishing up writing the last of the EFM8 articles that Parker started last October Stephen Synth works but doesn’t. Not getting ACF, something isn’t biased just right Stephen will rip out some strip board and create an off board filter Final version will have two envelopes The current envelope works but Stephen doesn’t like it Mutable Instruments Shruthi 1 Pick Of the Week (POW) PD Buddy Sink : USB Power Delivery for everyone - Hackaday.io Projects Built by Clayton Hobbs Smart power jack that plugs into Power Delivery enabled power sources Tell it what voltage and current you need and it talks to the to any USB PD power supply to get you the juice Internet of Fidget Spinners - HackADay Built by Matthias ESP8285 for communitcation Accelerometer to measure wobble and an optical switch to measure the rotation speed POV - persistence of vision for graphics Project Page Rapid Fire Opinion (RFO) Worlds Heaviest Weight - Veritasium How do you measure big forces accurately? Rocket Engines that produce 33 million netwons of force. Calibrating huge force transducer with the world's heaviest weight! Have to take in account the air displaced by the weights. Does the Moon affect it? Peratech wins place in most advanced gaming mouse - Electronics Weekly First mouse with Force -Sensitive Analog buttons. Swiftpoint-z-mouse Won three CES 2017 innovation awards Includes an accelerometer and a gyroscope SP-200-10 Sensor QTC® SP Sensors are pressure sensitive membrane switches. Made with Elastomers dubbed ‘quantum tunnelling composites’ (QTCs) LG Display Quality Assurance Report - Parker's new monitor packaging Test report for Parker’s new monitor. Are you interested in seeing a blog series for the synth we're working on? Let us know! Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!
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