Macrofab Engineering Podcast

Parker and Stephen discuss some MacroFab updates including news about their pod community and Slack, what’s wrong and right about high-end GPUs and the marvels of KrisFix and his YouTube repair channel, what’s up with consumer electronics and their lack of reverse polarity protection, and Parker muses about when it’s time to call it day for a 3D Printer. More on these topics:Community: New community hub! Shifting away from the Slack channel? Are you in or near Houston, Texas any time soon? Please come out to Beers for Engineers! More info below!  Dead on Arrival for high end GPUs - Nvidia RTX 4090 - The biggest problem with modern cards that the manufacturer refuses to repair KrisFix’s repair skills Popping the pad Too much Board Flex “RTX Technology Package” (air quotes)  Decoding NVIDIA 5000 Series Rumours? Why do so many consumer electronics not have reverse polarity protection? Looking through Windows Can’t turn it up to 11 Motherboards of Invention  Guitar Pedal Problems The hot leg The P Channel Set-up