Hardware Podcasts

An Interview with Greg Davill

The Amp Hour · 6 Jan 2020 · 1h 11m · Episode 473

What this episode covers

Greg Davill, an electronics engineer and hobbyist from Adelaide, discusses his recent hardware projects including the Arctic Koala FPGA breakout board, the Orange Crab, and a complex LED Icosahedron sculpture. He details the technical challenges of integrating a camera module into the Hackaday Supercon badge using an Icebreaker FPGA and shares his specific soldering techniques and tooling preferences for surface mount assembly. The conversation also covers his workflow for creating photorealistic KiCad board renders and the state of the electronics community in Australia.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Shapeways
Products
Arctic Koala, Icebreaker FPGA, Orange Crab
Chips
Lattice Crosslink NX
Tools
KiCad, Fusion 360, Amscope
Materials
Loctite GC 10, Amtech

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