This is a crossover episode with The Amp Hour podcast (also made by Chris) Welcome, Zack Freedman of Voidstar Lab Zack Freedman is a prototyping engineer turned YouTuber who makes bombastic videos about 3D printed creations and getting projects across the finish line. He joins Chris to talk about his past hardware designs and what he will be buildi…

Welcome, Jon Evans of the KiCad project! 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. Show Notes 0:00 Introduction 2:15 Making changes to the platform 4:00 History of the codebase – Chat with the KiCad team about V6 a…

Welcome, Kat Scott of Open Robotics! Kat is a developer advocate at Open Robotics, the company behind software like the open source Robot Operating System (ROS). Kat joins Chris to talk about how to create high complexity robotic creations and also how to create the lower level electronics that integrate into larger ROS systems. Kat is a member of …

Welcome, Becky Stern! Becky is an artist and content producer who works electronics into projects using a wide variety of media and construction techniques. Becky also teaches a class on electronics at SVA in NYC. She is a product manager at Instructables. Show Notes Her most recent project: Zodiac Embroidery Slack status updater Collaboration with…

Welcome, Conservify! Our guests today Shah Selbe Jacob Lewallen Bradley Gawthrop Show Notes Conservify is creating the FieldKit, a new modular system for environmental monitoring for research scientists and citizen scientists. FieldKit goes arboreal Testing for wild hardware Open source! Check out the hardware and firmware on Github The hardware Fi…

Welcome, Timon Skerutsch (@timonsku)! Show notes Timon and Chris know each other from Twitter and from past Hackaday events (Timon won one of the Hackaday Prize awards for his Linux Tablet) Timon has been doing experiments with the recently released Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4) This includes creating a carrier board using an Othermill circui…

About the guests/host Mike Cheich runs Programming Electronics academy. He has also been on Chris’s other podcast in the past. Phil FitzGerald is an educational coach via The Compelling Message Chris teaches at Contextual Electronics Discussion topics Teaching how to make a sandwich Is the knowledge in reach and is it relevant? Most people that are…

Joe Barnard is a rocketeer who runs BPS.space Joe is helping to bring Thrust Vector Control to the field of model rocketry He got started wanting to work for SpaceX, but has expanded the scope of things he’s interested in doing long term The signal board is available for sale Check out the evolution of control electronics that have gone on his rock…

Sarah’s personal site (shown throughout the video) She Bon is a project exploring human sexuality and helping people discuss it in a more healthy way. It has multiple smaller projects we discussed HotSpot PulsePack Sarah shows the hardware to different groups. The hackers at DEFCON are different than the artists at Ars Electronica Sarah entered the…

Today we’re talking with Roy Chen from Quectel. He is a field applications engineer and has been helping people design cellular modules into their designs. This is the PDF design review document that Quectel created This is the powerpoint based PDF document that Quectel created BG95 EG91 Quectel The ABC course for Contextual Electronics Contextual …