Macrofab Engineering Podcast

Podcast Notes Continuing on the Jeep Bluetooth radio hack, Parker designed the audio voltage bias switcher board. It will adjust the Pk-Pk voltage and DC offset of the Bluetooth adapter to what the radio expects. Ordered it through MacroFab. See Figure 1 and 2. Parker also started designing an amplifier for Spooky Pinball. Based on the  TDA7387 which is a 4 x 41 W quad bridge car radio amplifier. Designing it to be as inexpensive but as LOUD as possible. Currently down to $15.91 an assembled board in QTY 500. Need a beefy heatsink and powersupply to handle it. Stephen has been working on his Resistor of Death (name to be decided). By combining resistors in series and parallel, Stephen will be able to make a large high tolerance resistor. The best tolerance resistor on mouser is 0.005%. Can we get better than that with 1% resistors? N = 1/0.005 = 200 resistors FOR EACH PARALLEL/SERIES COMBO Total resistors = 40,000. Sorry RFO section got cut off due to a problem in the software recording. :( Special thanks to