The Contextual Electronics Podcast

CEP015 - Finishing Prototypes with Zack Freedman

Chris Gammell — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 21:15:14 GMT

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 building next.

Show Notes

0:00 Introduction
2:05 What Zack is building (a computer)
2:40 A water cooled oscilloscope
3:40 How Zack got started
4:40 Hackaday article
5:20 Bluetooth heads up display
5:40 Hoboken Hackerspace
7:15 NYC electronics scene
8:30 Working with artists
10:00 Working on the set of Mr Robot
11:05 Doing a first run prototype for a startup
13:10 Building skills in high pressure environments and on consulting jobs
17:45 Working on deadlines
19:10 How many projects are in a single video?
20:45 Building subassemblies
21:30 Building projects "backwards" (outside in)
23:00 Not thinking your idea is the last good idea you'll ever have
24:15 The prototyping mindset
27:00 Ranking risk in a project
29:15 Usability in wearable projects
31:30 "The role of most prototypes is to try to kill the idea"
33:30 What makes people want to buy a prototype?
35:45 Minimizing features in any one prototype / test
36:30 Consumer products should be shown to thousands before going to market
38:00 YouTubers' battle for attention (check out Voidstar Lab to see all of Zack's videos)
41:00 YouTube theories
44:45 Zack's persona
47:00 Filming b-roll to keep things interesting
51:00 YouTube comment positivity
52:25 Maker Twitter
54:00 Full time YouTube
54:20 Changes in the hardware space since 2012
56:40 Prototyping tools
58:30 "The Maker Movement"
59:25 Working for industrial clients
1:01:40 Focusing on the technology vs the purpose of the technology
1:03:30 Building a project because you want the thing (output)
1:05:30 Technology being used to move the world forward
1:07:15 What will Zack build in the future?
1:09:40 The Cyberdeck
1:12:15 Cyberdeck cafe Discord
1:13:10 Building on a stream vs on a video (streams happen on Zack's Patreon every Monday and Friday)
1:14:40 Previously wanting to go into game design
1:16:30 Providing a representation of what people think the process is
1:17:20 People think IronMan is reality
1:18:20 Bringing people into the field
1:20:25 "Finish more projects"
1:23:30 Going beyond the getting started projects
1:26:20 People genuinely interested in a topic will skip beginner classes
1:27:35 Engineering is intrinsically solitary
1:29:30 Trying to figure out gender discrepancies in making
1:31:05 "What's it like to put yourself out there?"
1:32:30 Putting yourself out there will help you find more positive feedback
1:35:05 Building community
1:37:00 Finding Zack's work and joining his community
- Patreon
- YouTube
- Discord
- Twitter
- Instagram
1:38:40 Conclusion

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CEP014 - Moving to KiCad V6 with Jon Evans

Chris Gammell — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 10:00:17 GMT

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 and beyond
5:05 Jon's work background - Jon works for Formlabs
8:20 What is coming in KiCad v6?
10:45 Working with legacy code in KiCad
13:30 Looking at an example project
14:50 Schematic editor
18:50 Changes to the schematic UI
21:00 Layout tool
22:45 Changes to the layout UI
24:10 The split of beginner vs advanced users
25:55 The benefits of an open source tool
26:25 Comparison to tools that are cloud based
27:45 The KiCad ecosystem
30:45 KiCad Professional Services
32:00 KiCon 2021
33:10 What is DRC? How is it changing?
37:40 The challenges of live DRC
40:15 Example of DRC
46:05 New python API
48:30 Example project for using python scripting with KiCad
50:00 How the KiCad project works with feature requests
52:15 Working with the console inside KiCad
53:55 What else is Jon excited about in V6?
56:20 KiCad as a professional tool?
1:00:05 Following Jon online
1:02:10 Conclusion

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CEP013 - Open Source Robotics with Kat Scott

Chris Gammell — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:33:41 GMT

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 OSHWA, which defines and certifies Open Source Hardware.

Show Notes

DOT CARMA
NASA VIPER
DARPA Tutorials
Autoware Lecture Series
F1 Tenth
Indy Autonomous Challenge
Virtual Robot X - Maritime Robotics
Njord Robotics
Tahoe Robot
ROS Industrial
ROS for Arms
ROS Nav Stack
Ignition Gazebo Simulation
GazeboSim.org
GazeboSim community
MicroROS
Autoware.ai
The Ministry of Silly Walks
OSHWA
The 2021 Open Source Hardware Summit (now passed, due to delay in releasing this episode)
TurtleBot
The Open Robotics twitter account
Kat Scott's Twitter account

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CEP012 - Mixed Media with Becky Stern

Chris Gammell — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 10:21:28 GMT

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

Time tags:

0:00 Introduction
1:47 Becky Stern bio
3:34 Building out ideas
4:57 Learning new things
6:36 Collaborations
8:46 LEDs and light in projects
13:20 #SampleCode
14:30 What is a neopixel (WS2812)
16:15 Teaching students
19:55 Getting started programming
21:20 Higher level programming projects
24:20 Troubleshooting remotely
27:00 Best practices for documentation
29:20 Camera tips
33:10 Creating documentation from photos
36:30 Getting started crafting
40:05 "Getting to blinky" for crafts
42:15 Finishing projects
45:40 Setting a schedule for projects
48:30 Making things easy for your future self
49:30 Tools
53:25 Small workspaces
54:00 Future projects
58:40 Where to find Becky's work
59:20 Wrap up

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CEP011 - Environmental Monitoring with Conservify

Chris Gammell — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:49:52 GMT

Welcome, Conservify!

Our guests today

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
- FieldKit weather
- Fieldkit enclosure
- Upper / Lower / Modules
- Solar and batteries
Winning The Hackaday Prize

Time tags:

0:00 Introduction
1:11 Conservify team introduction
6:20 Deploying electronics into harsh environments
10:35 Using off the shelf components
12:29 Monitoring water levels in the Amazon river basin
14:20 How did scientists measure things in the past?
20:23 Correlating data in the past
22:49 Open source in field science
23:22 FieldKit Hardware
28:11 Accomodating different hardware needs
31:30 Hardware details
34:20 Power requirements for the field
36:48 Unexpected customer requests
38:40 Community contributed hardware / firmware
44:50 Data visualization
48:10 FieldKit.org demo
52:35 Publishing without hardware
55:28 Who is using FieldKit?
57:25 Pilot program with NYC
58:30 Upcoming air quality kit
1:03:10 Giveaway of FieldKit stations
1:05:22 Focus on affordability
1:06:14 Deploying more non-profit FieldKits
1:07:32 Where to find more info
1:08:35 Hackaday Prize
1:09:32 Summary and wrap-up

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CEP010 - Low Volume and Low Cost with Timon Skerutsch

Chris Gammell — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 09:55:26 GMT

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 circuit board router
This also led to the creation of the Piunora, a Rasberry Pi in the shape of an Arduino Uno.
Interested in getting a Piunora? Sign up here for the mailing list (general) and sign up here for the Crowdfunding campaign
His dayjob is working on a technical exhibitions, such as museum exhibits and trade fairs.
He is the only person there, so there are limited mentorship opportunities
He is mostly self taught
The low volume nature of technical exhibitions means Timon has had to reduce costs without volume
Bunnie Huang's book
- Chris thought it was the Shenzhen Guide (it was not what Timon meant)
- The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in making and breaking hardware
When finding a manufacturer, it's important to build relationships
Reducing cost means that you might need to move outside "western" manufacturers
It's easier to find alternative suppliers using sites like LCSC or Alibaba
Import costs can be high if manufacturing in China
The rough ABC Bill of Materials (BOM) discussed during this episode
The ABC Rev A Schematic is available on the course site now
"It's often about finding the right keyword for the components you're searching for"
Selling a "pro" and a "lite" version can offer the board at a lower price for people that don't care about every feature.
Check out Timon's youtube
Timon helps out with and participates on the Maker Cast, a monthly show that highlights different people on YouTube who make things and discuss them.

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CEP009 - Meta Learning Electronics with Mike Cheich and Phil FitzGerald

Chris Gammell — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 11:47:41 GMT

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 in Programming Electronics are hardware hobbyists who want to get into programming, usually through Arduino
- It can be intimidating learning electronics because of the breadth of knowledge required
- Phil-ism: Accreditation, certification, celebration.
- Self evaluation matters at the beginning of education
- SME = Subject Matter Expert
- Analogy of creating a map within a city (mapping out London)
- Selling people on the end point of a learning journey
- Learners normally don't care as much about the specifics of the journey
- After the fact, learners will rose c0lor the specifics of how they got to the point they're at
- DITLO = Day in the life of
- Chris struggles with how traditional education was teaching electronics
- Mike likes finding the guiding principle within the electronics universe
- Two tracks - thinking (theory) and doing (practice)
- Designing your own 5 year map of curriculum
- Phil-ism: You can't show it if you don't know it
- Extending your knowledge of how maps work by being able to create a map in a new city
- Creating lists of things to do, or not to do
- Mike is learning how to 3D printing, which was a new learning journey
- Facing failure and understanding what you should do when that happens
- Drawing your map so you understand what you do and don't know
- Keeping notes is so you reinforce your own knowledge. In Phil's example, this might take the form of a map. Phil explains in more detail in the video below: *
- The Dunning Kruger Effect
- Make It Stick by Peter Brown
- Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset
- Removing barriers to learning when a learner experiences a problem (QR Code example)
- Sleeping on a problem (or stepping away from a problem)
- Accreditation is someone verifying you know what you claim to know
- "What comes before that" is an important question when mapping out the steps required to learn something
- Maps start as post-it notes
- Creating analogies
- Breaking down individual elements of the learning process and relating it back to that analogy
- How do you quantify "show it to know it"?
- Chris is a proponent of "Build Logs" (which is also a section on the CE Forum)
- What do you notice in the thing you want to build?
- Thinking about the steps that indicate you're about to get to the next step? (ie. Which stop comes before the stop you're going to get off at on the train)
- Dewey Decimal System
- Sometimes courses try to constrain the possible paths of research, as that can get overwhelming
- The downside to learning in the modern day is how many sources of distraction there are (ie. phones)
- Guided path examples
- Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck
- Learning something well enough to teach is holding yourself to a higher standard
- Check out Phil's site The Compelling Message and check out his book!
- Mike teaches electronics on Programming Electronics Academy

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CEP008 - Building Rockets with Joe Barnard (Interview)

Chris Gammell — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:56:22 GMT

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 rockets
The AVA Flight computer, recently released
Watch the "Launches" Playlist on the BPS.space YouTube channel (various were watched during the recording)
Watch the "Landings" playlist on the BPS.space YouTube channel (various were watched during the recording)...these were using the Thrust Vector Control
PID Control loops
Joe uses Simulink to test out different control characteristics
Kalman filters
Reaction wheel
Support Joe and BPS.space on Patreon!

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CEP007 - Combining Art and Technology with Sarah Petkus

Chris Gammell — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:08:20 GMT

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 project into the Hackaday Prize and also gave a talk at the Hackaday Superconference about it.
Comparing artists and jackets, the former usually want to show completely finished work, instead of something that might be in progress. This means artist sometimes outsource the technical work. Sarah likes doing both.
"You learn the most when you do it all, when you have the control"
Howdo we get more art people to be technical? How do we get more crossover?
"I made this!"
Noodlefeet is Sarah's robotic offspring. she has been creating an upgrading him for over 5 years.
The Noodlefeet playlist on Sarah's Youtube channel
Rebuilding Noodle to make him more sturdy, especially while walking.
Ship of Theseus
The Noodle brain uses a Jetson Nano for classifying images. See the 'mother of machine' site for more info.
End Effectors
"The tasting channel"
Sarah got started in 3D using SketchUp, as did Chris. She learned parametric modeling via Fusion360 went on a deadline.
Sarah and Mark met at SynShop
Follow Sarah on YouTube
Sarah shares her regular sketches and thoughts on Twitter
Sarah also has a patreon

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CEP006 - Cellular Design Review with Roy Chen

Chris Gammell — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:04:47 GMT

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.

Contextual Electronics now has a free week signup for anyone who is interested in trying out the program! See the various options here.

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CEP005 - Clojure Script on Hardware with Mike Fikes

Chris Gammell — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:00:47 GMT

Today we're talking with Mike Fikes. He is a software developer who specializes in Clojure Script, but has been building custom hardware to run it on.

Clojure Script is built on Clojure, which is built on Lisp, which is built on Java (whew!)
Mike has been taking Ben Eater's class and following along building custom hardware to learn more about how computers work. Ben has been a guest on Chris' other podcast, The Amp Hour.
Mike has also been working with Bil Herd, who designed the Commodore 128. Bil has also been a guest on The Amp Hour.
Vouch.io
The boards Mike designed work with Espirit, a fork of Espruino.
You can buy the boards on Tindie, if you'd like to try them out.
Mike gave a talk about this subject at Clojure North a couple of months ago.

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CEP004 - High current open hardware with Elen from Fully Automated Technologies

Chris Gammell — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 20:52:49 GMT

Today we're talking with Elen from Fully Automated Technologies. She is a self-taught hardware designer who works on high current electronics designs that are fully open source. She is also developing EDeA, a new website that will help share functional blocks of circuits in KiCad.

Fully Automated Technologies
Elen works with Zoe on the open source designs there
Elen's work on GitHub
She uses KiCad for all hardware designs
The "freewheeling ferret" project on the Fully Automated GitHub
The Fully Automated BMS on Hackaday.io
EDeA is a new open repository for reusable design blocks in KiCad
Follow Elen on Twitter, @tachiniererin

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CEP003 - A Hardware Design Review with Erik Larson

Chris Gammell — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:11:10 GMT

Today we're talking with, Erik Larson, who is a firmware engineer with some interesting background! He joins Chris to review the Advanced BLE-Cell (ABC) board, which is also a new course on Contextual Electronics.

Erik has worked at places like Honeywell Aerospace, Apriva and Hologram (where he and Chris met). Erik is now a full time consultant for his own company, Statropy Software LLC.
Erik was the firmware engineer on the Hologram Dash, which was an embedded module that Hologram used to make for people to get started making cellular connected devices.
During his career, he had to learn how to code remotely on a VAX! This meant being very careful with code check-ins
Erik and Chris review some of the "Must check" sections of schematics, in order to get firmware and hardware talking properly:
- Pin selection on a microcontroller
- Programming elements, including the bootloader
- Understanding the peripherals of the specific chip you're using
The board we're reviewing is the Advanced BLE-CELL (ABC) board, which is designed as part of a Contextual Electronics course. You can follow along and watch the entire design of this board if you're a member of Contextual Electronics.
Here is the schematic, as shown in the video (has since been updated for the course, as has the layout)
Check out the nRF52840 Product Specification (datasheet)
Erik recommends getting a development board and breakout boards before the hardware arrives.
You can hire Erik to help with your next firmware project on his website, Statropy Software, LLC

That's our third episode, which is the last in our initial release of shows!

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CEP002 - Building a DIY Pick and Place with Stephen Hawes

Chris Gammell — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:10:01 GMT

Today we're talking with, Stephen Hawes, an electronics engineer and maker who is building his own Pick and Place machine and sharing about the process on YouTube

Stephen works at Formlabs during the day, and films videos at night!
Controlling 30 feeders
Using OpenPnP
Adding vision to the PnP
PnP Controller build
The glowtie (which he did a crowdfunding campaign on)

CEP001 - Design Methodologies with Sophy Wong

Chris Gammell — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:05:16 GMT

Today we're talking with, Sophy Wong! She is a designer and maker and a generous content creator. We couldn't have thought of a better guest to be on the first episode of The Contextual Electronics Podcast!

Introducing The Contextual Electronics Podcast

Chris Gammell — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:03:50 GMT

I started Contextual Electronics (CE) in 2014 to teach electronics by pairing theory and practice. We sometimes refer to this as "the online electronics apprenticeship", since our members follow along with electronics builds. Since then, hundreds have participated in project based education to improve their skills. In 2020, we're looking to feature people using electronics in their everyday work. This is a new podcast called, The Contextual Electronics Podcast. Listeners/viewers will gain a better grasp of required knowledge for their personal projects and how to work towards it. This will bring more context to your practice.

How did we get here?

Podcasting isn't new for me. Contextual Electronics started as the direct result of another podcast, The Amp Hour. Feedback from Amp Hour listeners helped me realized there was a need for a program such as CE. I designed a project based course that pairs theory and practice. Over time, the course and this site have changed. CE started as a 10 week course teaching electronics; then it split out into two 8 week courses instead. Then we released all of our KiCad videos online and kept releasing new ones to the public for teaching people how to use an open source EDA program. Then we moved on to doing smaller boards for more rapid feedback on designs. Then we did a larger project to pull in firmware and build up a system. Then we developed a shortcourse that highlights swappable design. Then we started a public forum to complement the coursework. Most recently, we have been designing an advanced course that shows how to design a board that has bluetooth and cellular capabilities. We hope that the podcast is the next iteration. A free weekly podcast, highlighting guests who pair electronics theory and practice every day. We hope this will help more people discover the world of electronics.

What will the show be like?

The Contextual Electronics Podcast (CEP) will invite guests on from all parts of the industry. We are looking to feature people at different points in their careers, and with very different backgrounds. Ultimately we want to add context to the world of electronics. Hearing or watching people with different backgrounds than your own, and those who are struggling or have struggled with electronics concepts, should help you realize you're not alone in your learning. This podcast will include video, which is new for me on podcasts (The Amp Hour is audio only). Electronics and the education surrounding it is visual by nature; that's why Contextual Electronics is primarily a video course. We hope that a video podcast will help to give a better view into our guests' experiences. We will always try to make sure we describe what is on screen so that it's possible to listen to the podcast, if that's your preferred way of tuning in.

How can you tune in?

The best away to make sure you don't miss any episodes is to subscribe! Here are some places you can find the podcast, either video or audio:

Most of the podcast aggregators pull from the marketplaces above. If you can't find CEP in your favorite one, please let us know in the forum post, linked below.

On with the show!

We are releasing 3 episodes right off the bat, and they turned out great! Here are links to the show notes and the video and audio versions of the podcast. The videos will be released on YouTube publicly over the next few days (to save peoples' notifications), but you can access all of the content right now using the links below.

If you are so inclined, please consider giving us a review on iTunes and/or giving us a thumbs up on the YouTube versions of the podcast. This will help others find the podcast and the course.

Please reach out!

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The Contextual Electronics Podcast

CEP015 - Finishing Prototypes with Zack Freedman

Welcome, Zack Freedman of Voidstar Lab

Show Notes

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CEP014 - Moving to KiCad V6 with Jon Evans

Welcome, Jon Evans of the KiCad project!

Show Notes

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CEP013 - Open Source Robotics with Kat Scott

Welcome, Kat Scott of Open Robotics!

Show Notes

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CEP012 - Mixed Media with Becky Stern

Welcome, Becky Stern!

Show Notes

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CEP011 - Environmental Monitoring with Conservify

Welcome, Conservify!

Our guests today

Show Notes

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CEP010 - Low Volume and Low Cost with Timon Skerutsch

Welcome, Timon Skerutsch (@timonsku)!

Show notes

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CEP009 - Meta Learning Electronics with Mike Cheich and Phil FitzGerald

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CEP008 - Building Rockets with Joe Barnard (Interview)

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CEP007 - Combining Art and Technology with Sarah Petkus

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CEP006 - Cellular Design Review with Roy Chen

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CEP005 - Clojure Script on Hardware with Mike Fikes

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CEP004 - High current open hardware with Elen from Fully Automated Technologies

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CEP003 - A Hardware Design Review with Erik Larson

CEP002 - Building a DIY Pick and Place with Stephen Hawes

CEP001 - Design Methodologies with Sophy Wong

Introducing The Contextual Electronics Podcast

How did we get here?

What will the show be like?

How can you tune in?

On with the show!

Please reach out!

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