Macrofab Engineering Podcast

Podcast Notes We would love to hear from our listeners. Tell us what you think, your current projects, any topics you would like us to cover, or just say “hello”. To reach us follow us on Twitter @MacroFab or send us an email at podcast@macrofab.com. Derek long time listenersent us an email! Twitter handle @TCurrentSource Emailed us last week that he picked up a 1200V SCR Thyristor. Parker  Wrote a capacitor article about polarity and silkscreen markings. Started working on a new Pinball Controller with Spooky Pinball.  Stephen  Resistor Resistor arrived. Made a goof on it... but it is fixable.  Motor controller for one of our benches. The Open PLC will be controlling it. It is basically a fancy a fancy pwm filter. - its an optoisolator into a dual transistor config with a r/c filter. See Figure 1, 2, 3 RFO   Solar Roadways...yes again with this topic.  2 year experiment in France, called Wattway. Single lane road stretching 1mile long Cost €5 million, or roughly $5.4 million in U.S. currency.  Cover