The Spark Gap

The Spark Gap

Karl and Corey talk about various aspects of embedded electronics, from nuts and bolts design to high-level discussions and debates. We also talk about some of our hobbies surrounding electronics (3D Printing and CNC Routers). New episodes are released Wednesdays.

Episodes

January 31, 2018 54 mins

Karl and Corey talk about projects they've been working on in their spare time.  Corey discusses his ping pong scoreboard's progress and challenges.

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Karl and Corey discuss how to work with development kits, specifically on how to best transition from a dev kit to a custom design.

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April 12, 2017 73 mins

Karl and Corey talk about various ways to protect a design from other devices that can pull too much power, reverse voltage polarity, and otherwise cause damage.

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November 9, 2016 99 mins

Karl and Corey discuss various means of user input: buttons, rotary encoders, and resistive and capacitive touch sensing.

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October 19, 2016 59 mins

Karl and Corey talk about their trip to Portland, Oregon and the 2016 Open Hardware Summit.

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September 28, 2016 57 mins

Karl and Corey are back to talk about design choices you can make when creating schematics and PCB layouts that will make board bring up and debugging much easier.

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April 27, 2016 83 mins

Karl and Corey discuss the issues with heat in an embedded design, how to prevent it, how to detect it, and how to deal with it.

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March 9, 2016 70 mins

Karl and Corey discuss the CANbus protocol and the new CAN-FD specification.

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February 10, 2016 51 mins

Karl and Corey talk about some of the lessons Karl learned (and remembered) at the Signal Integrity Boot Camp at DesignCon.

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December 25, 2015 64 mins

Karl and Corey air some grievances about Raspberry Pi, "Hoverboards", and PCB layout practices in this grab bag/Festivus episode.

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November 11, 2015 54 mins

Karl and Corey talk about how knowledge of electronics can cause headaches when looking at products and crowd-funding campaigns.

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October 21, 2015 67 mins

Karl and Corey finishing talking with Chris Gammell about parts.io and selecting the right op-amp for a given application. (Part 2 of 2)

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October 14, 2015 59 mins

Karl and Corey are joined by Chris Gammell to talk about how to pick the right op-amp.  Part 1 of 2.

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October 3, 2015 71 mins

Karl and Corey are back! Join them as they talk about design choices and gotchas involving connectors.

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August 12, 2015 56 mins

Karl and Corey depart from hardware to talk about one of the more interesting bits of firmware, pointers.

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July 29, 2015 67 mins

Karl and Corey talk about the gear they use to bring you this podcast.

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July 15, 2015 61 mins

Karl and Corey talk about designing projects with the future in mind.

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July 3, 2015 57 mins

Karl and Corey discuss a few submissions they liked from the Hackaday Prize 2015.  Disclaimer: Neither Karl nor Corey are affiliated in any way with the Hakaday Prize selection.

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June 17, 2015 110 mins

Karl teaches Corey about how cars work and how electronics fit into modern automobiles.

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June 3, 2015 51 mins

Karl's going to Burning Man.  Let's talk about some electronics you might want when camping in the desert.

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