Hardware Podcasts

494: All Tech Is Wearable

Embedded.fm · 7 Feb 2025 · 1h 15m · Episode 494

What this episode covers

Debra Ansell, known as GeekMomProjects, discusses her winning entry for the Hackaday Supercon badge add-on contest: a flexible, bendy PCB structure called the 'Bendy SAO' that mimics a wacky waving inflatable tube man. She details the mechanical engineering challenges of creating slip-ring-like connections between eight PCBs using spring contacts and push rivets, and the subsequent crisis of wiring the SAO connector backwards. The episode covers her efforts to make the device programmable via I2C using an ATtiny3224 and a Raspberry Pi Pico, while navigating the complexities of having Supplyframe manufacture the unmanufacturable design in China for RoHS compliance.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Supplyframe, Memfault
Chips
Seeed Studio XIAO, Adafruit QT Py, MPU-6050, ATtiny3224, Raspberry Pi Pico
Also
GeekMomProjects, Make Magazine, Maketvee, Janet Hansen, Ben Hencke, Carrie Sundra, Martin Oehler, Kevin Cappuccio, GC

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