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333: Project Purgatory

Embedded.fm · 4 Jun 2020 · 52m · Episode 333

What this episode covers

Bailey Steinfadt, a product manager at Dojo Five and long-time board member of the non-profit maker space Area 515, discusses her diverse engineering career and community work. She details the massive volunteer effort to produce over 6,000 face shields for emergency services during the pandemic, highlighting the logistical challenges of distributed manufacturing. Steinfadt also recounts a specific failure at Pioneer involving a soil-moving robot with active-high brakes that rolled out of control upon restart, and reflects on her transition from corporate roles to consulting and back to a product management position.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies and companies scaling up

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Area 515, Dojo Five, Pioneer, GreenGate 3D, Sierra CNC, Drake University, Barnum Factory
Chips
Raspberry Pi
Tools
Arduino, ROS

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