Hardware Podcasts

062 - Keymap Rain Dance

Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast · 30 Dec 2022 · 1h 16m

What this episode covers

David Ray of Cyber City Circuits explains his company's transition from a kitchen-table hobby to a small-scale manufacturing hub for electronics and escape room props. He details a specific reverse engineering workflow for PCBs involving high-resolution photo scanning, GIMP, and Inkscape to recreate designs in KiCad, illustrated by his TI-83 calculator project. The conversation also covers the challenges of legacy component obsolescence, the utility of online communities like electronics Twitter, and the technical aspects of building interactive escape room hardware.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Cyber City Circuits, Texas Instruments, Morbid Entertainment
Products
HackerBoxes, TI-83, Sensor Watch, Digimon
Chips
ESP32
Tools
KiCad, GIMP, Inkscape, SVG2Shenzhen, ChatGPT
Also
Joe Grand

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