Macrofab Engineering Podcast

Ken and Chip Gracey of Parallax IncKen Gracey Leader and CEO of Parallax UC Davis alumni who lives and breathes Parallax products and has done so around the world All about family, working smart, having fun, mountaineering, and riding his unicycle Chip Gracey Parallax founder. He had his first major introduction to programming and electronics when he was 13 years old with the Timex Sinclair computer After graduating high school, he and his techy friend from the 7th grade started Parallax at their homes in 1987 Chip designed the first low-cost tools for the PIC microcontrollers Led to the development of the first BASIC Stamp module released in 1993 The Parallax Story Starting Products Apple IIgs memory cards EEPROM emulators for microcontroller development PIC Tools Basic Stamp SX chip Propeller Parallax Prop 2 What makes it special compared to other microcontrollers? P2 VS P1? Feature Set Programming Languages? What does it take to design semiconductors? Software packages Simulation What document package