The BOM: Engineering a Path Forward

The BOM: Engineering a Path Forward

The BOM (or “bill of materials”) is a weekly Supplyframe DesignLab Podcast hosted by Head of Design & Partnerships Majenta Strongheart. Each week, through digestible conversations with the world’s leading innovators, hackers, and entrepreneurs, Majenta and her guests explore the future of how hardware projects are built and brought to market, investigate technological solutions to the world's toughest challenges, help bridge the gap between makers, startups, and investors, and celebrate the transformational power of design. Presented by Supplyframe DesignLab

Episodes

Form, Function, and Design Harmony With Anthony Oyatayo

September 3, 2024 • 51 mins
In this episode of The BOM: Engineering A Path Forward we have the pleasure of sitting down with Engineering Program Manager for Apple and interior designer Anthony Oyatayo to learn a bit more about how the principles of design find their way into engineering. 

Anthony is going to tell us why soft skills are just as important as the technical aspects of design and engineering and how he managed to use these skills to help him naviga...
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Smaller Drones For A Bigger World with Eric Weinhoffer

August 27, 2024 • 39 mins
Today, in this episode of the Bom: Engineering a Path, we’re sitting down with Eric Weinhoffer, Senior Hardware Development Specialist at Skydio. Skydio isn’t just a drone company but instead an organization looking to advance what is even possible in safety and situational intelligence for first responders and utility workers. Imagine a fire from power lines being detected in minutes instead of hours. 
Eric is going to tell us how ...
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Supercharging Start-ups at mHub w/Bill Fienup

August 6, 2024 • 30 mins
In this episode of the Bom: Engineering A Path Forward we’re at Chicago’s ideal fab lab, mHub with co-founder Bill Fienup. Most design labs in the US work off a basic subscription model and have access to tools that most start-ups don’t have. mHub is no different in that aspect but as Bill explains, the level of funding, mentorship, and expertise offered to the start-ups working with mHub sets the space apart. We’ll also hear about...
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Music and Haptic Design w/ Fred Kelly

July 2, 2024 • 44 mins
In this episode of the Bom: Engineering A Path Forward we’re back at mHub in Chicago looking at how music technology is more than synths and software. It’s everything from basic controllers that play a single sound to full haptic feedback setups that in recent times have been used to create an interactive playground to help children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
 
Today, we’re talking to one of the product design engineers...
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Game-changing Tech: The Evolution of Wireless Power w/ Jacob Babcock

June 25, 2024 • 34 mins
In this episode of the Bom: Engineering A Path Forward, we sit down with the CEO of a company that has basically created magic. NuCurrent is at the forefront of wireless charging and futuristic wireless power technology from pop sockets that charge your phone to smart basketballs and medical devices that can’t easily access external charging. Jacob Babcock the shares how he went from a law student to designing wireless power for Sp...
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Unreleased Special With 3D Printing Genuis Vijay Varada

June 18, 2024 • 32 mins
As you have probably noticed, we’ve been on a bit of a break but we’re coming back with exclusive interviews from amazing events and locations. This summer, we’ve been on the road to Chicago to visit mHub to talk with some of the founders, engineers, and builders of incredible hardware and start-ups. You’ll get to see all that and more, but first, we have an unreleased episode with a previous guest. Vijay Varada is 2023’s Hackaday ...
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How to Build A Better Space For Artists and Engineers w/ Chris Iwasjuta

May 14, 2024 • 36 mins
In this episode of The Bom: Engineering A Path Forward, we take a look at the way that collaboration spaces can be redesigned to better foster innovation with artists, designers, and engineers. We’re going to hear from the Co-founder of MotionLab.Berlin Chris Iwasjuta about the origin story of MotionLab, why he felt this calling to build a collaboration space for designers and engineers, and how a double-decker bus became a brand f...
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Practical Advice for an Imperfect World With Sera Evcimen

April 30, 2024 • 37 mins
In this episode of The Bom: Engineering a Path Forward, we welcome Sera Evcimen, Founder of the startup consulting firm Pratik. Pratik focuses on finding practical solutions to finish hardware stacks and help get their product to market. Sera’s unique insight into the process of fleshing out a product’s design and manufacturing explains why she chooses to only work with companies that are designing meaningful and impactful hardware...
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Weaving the Fabric of the Future With Madison Maxey

April 23, 2024 • 32 mins
In this episode of The Bom: Engineering a Path Forward, we sit down with the Founder and CEO of Loomia, Madison Maxey.Loomia is  an e-textile company that is redefining what’s possible in flexible circuitry and electronics-integrated fabrics. We’ll get a peek into Madison’s predictions about the future in the wearable electronics space and what she learned throughout her five year journey to get Loomia off the ground.

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Where Open Source Meets 3D-Printing w/ Vijay Raghav Varada

April 16, 2024 • 35 mins
Today, on The Bom: Engineering A Path Forward we sit down with Fracktal Works Co-founder Vijay Raghav Varada. Vijay walks us through the need for 3D-printed parts in advanced manufacturing and where traditional CNC parts fail, why he decided to keep Fracktal Work projects open source, and the exciting possibilities of what advanced 3D-printing might hold for the future of tactical hardware. 

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Sitting Down For Family Dinner Aboard Space Stations

March 26, 2024 • 38 mins
In this episode of The Bom: Engineering a Path Forward, I’m going to ask you to think about a rather futurist question: what does daily life look like in space? Sure, we have the Hollywood version of life amongst the stars. Star Wars, Dune, and even cult classics like Alien give us an idealistic glimpse. However, these are far from the reality of what it’s like to gather around and break bread in zero gravity.

Today’s guest is Sana ...
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How A Music Collective Is Reimagining Sound Engineering

March 19, 2024 • 37 mins
In this episode of The Bom: Engineering a Path Forward, we’re talking about the process of turning engineering components into musical instruments and how that has the potential to change many aspects of our culture. At least, that’s what my guest today, Kirk Pearson, founder of Dogbotic, believes. Dogbotic is a music and sound research collective that is redefining what music is and is working to make musical and electrical engine...
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Episode 42: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky Teaches How To Adapt To A Changing Problem

March 12, 2024 • 32 mins
Majenta Strongheart sits down with Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, the co-founder and CEO of Instrumental. Instrumental is focused on one of the most important aspects of the manufacturing world today. Creating a more efficient quality tracking system in the production process that so many hardware companies rely on. From the beginning Anna and the whole team at Instrumental asked the question, how do we increase yield, decrease wasted pr...
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Episode 41: Wearables That Matter: How Effective Data and Health Sciences Can Change The World with Rosalind Picard

March 5, 2024 • 30 mins
Rosalind Picard is the founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Lab at MIT and co-founded both Affectiva and Empatica. Both companies are aimed at using extensive AI and wearable tech to improve the lives of people with chronic illnesses and make robots act a little more human. Ironically enough, she never wanted to start any kind of company but the need for better data and better measurement tools pushed her past t...
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Episode 40: The 60 Second Architect with Tomide Adesanmi

February 27, 2024 • 29 mins
Tomide Adesanmi is the co-founder and CEO of Circuit Mind. Algorithmic software that helps electronics engineers and designers go from architecture to complete schematics in roughly 60 seconds. In Tomide's experience, far too many electronics designers and engineers spend far too much time drawing and planning the architecture of their motherboards. Researching components suppliers, reading complex manuals and workflows, and starti...
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Episode 39: A Quick Announcement

August 29, 2023 • 1 min
Majenta expresses gratitude to the fantastic listeners and shares some thrilling news. While The BOM takes a brief break to gear up, Majenta teases upcoming interviews featuring guests from Motorola and other incredible technology and hardware companies. She encourages listeners to dive into the podcast's treasure trove of past interviews with tech leaders, entrepreneurs, and hardware creators. She also announced the Hackaday Super...
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Episode 38: Augmented Reality Is Not Just a Gimmick with Mareike Kritzler

August 22, 2023 • 39 mins
Mareike Kritzler is the Siemens research group head of the Smart Machine Vision and Visualization team. The team’s research keeps the human in the loop and allows for interaction with a Digital Twin or a physical machine through human-machine interfaces such as Augmented Reality. Before Mareike joined Siemens Corporate Technology, she was a Development Specialist for Augmented Reality apps at a German startup, first in Munich, Germ...
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Episode 37: The Best Way For Creatives To Combine Curiosity And Technology To Produce Value with JD Sassaman

August 15, 2023 • 58 mins
This was my talk with JD Sassaman, the accomplished architect and innovation expert currently developing Ford’s E mobility facilities in downtown Detroit. We spoke about the importance of diverse experience and teamwork, the childlike joy of creation, and the close relationship between technology and creativity.


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Episode 36: Open Source and Education with David Cuartielles

August 8, 2023 • 64 mins
This was my interview with David Cuartielles, co-found of Arduino, Cuartielles has been an active advocate for open-source technology and has contributed to various projects focused on education, interactive installations, and creativity in the technology domain. He has been involved in initiatives that aim to democratize technology and promote STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education worldwide.
We talked a...
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Episode 35: Redefining Innovation with Mike Deppe

August 1, 2023 • 28 mins
Today we talked to Mike Deppe, VP of Product Development with Molex. With a background in mechanical engineering, Mike worked in several departments in his 21 years at Molex, which taught him to value knowledge sharing and talent that is curious to learn more.

With over one hundred thousand products Molex has many customers in many different markets, from automotive to medical, industrial, consumer space, and more, Mike talks about...
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