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
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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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.
Loomia
Loomia
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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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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 ...
Today’s guest is Sana ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
We talked a...
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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...
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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July 25, 2023 • 34 mins
Today I spoke to Easton LaChappelle, founder of Unlimited Tomorrow which manufactures high-quality, customizable prosthetics accessible to people who couldn't afford traditional alternatives.
Easton talks about his journey into the business and within it, his transition from creator to operator, and the current focus of the company.
Easton talks about his journey into the business and within it, his transition from creator to operator, and the current focus of the company.
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July 11, 2023 • 53 mins
Tom Hoffman is the Portfolio Development Executive and Director of LIFT and Business Development for Digital Enterprise at Siemens.
LIFT is a joint public-privaste program run by several engineering firms, college, and the US Department of Defense operated by the American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII).
Siemens:
https://www.siemens.com/us/en.html
LIFT:
https://lift.technology/about-us/
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LIFT is a joint public-privaste program run by several engineering firms, college, and the US Department of Defense operated by the American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII).
Siemens:
https://www.siemens.com/us/en.html
LIFT:
https://lift.technology/about-us/
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June 27, 2023 • 34 mins
This week, we were on-site speaking with Fernando Bales, build lab manager for Citizen Robotics in Detroit, Michigan. Citizen Robotics is a non-profit working to reduce the cost – both in labor hours and in dollars – of building new homes through the use of robotics.
Beyond that, they’re also focused on education and access – something you all know we’re always on board for at Supplyframe. Through their training center, they bring ...
Beyond that, they’re also focused on education and access – something you all know we’re always on board for at Supplyframe. Through their training center, they bring ...
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June 20, 2023 • 29 mins
Zvi Feuer is the SVP of Manufacturing Engineering at Siemens Industry Software (SISW).
This episode covers Zvi’s decades of experience starting his career in industrial engineering, pivoting to management and business development, his takeaways from managing a fully-remote team, and how Siemens continues to help contribute to the training and learning process for aspiring engineers around the world.
Siemens:
https://www.sw.siemens.co...
This episode covers Zvi’s decades of experience starting his career in industrial engineering, pivoting to management and business development, his takeaways from managing a fully-remote team, and how Siemens continues to help contribute to the training and learning process for aspiring engineers around the world.
Siemens:
https://www.sw.siemens.co...
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June 13, 2023 • 38 mins
Alberto Gianelli is the Senior Electronic Engineer of teenage engineering, a Stockholm, Sweden, based music equipment developer and manufacturer.
Teenage Engineering has been developing and releasing very popular, highly portable equipment since 2007 including the OP-1, a pocket micro-synth that can be seen in several viral videos on Instagram and TikTok.
Our discussion focuses on teenage engineering’s design process from concept to ...
Teenage Engineering has been developing and releasing very popular, highly portable equipment since 2007 including the OP-1, a pocket micro-synth that can be seen in several viral videos on Instagram and TikTok.
Our discussion focuses on teenage engineering’s design process from concept to ...
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June 6, 2023 • 37 mins
Sergiy Nesterenko is the CEO and cofounder of Quilter.
Quilter is an AI/ML solution in PCB/circuit board design and is currently in a closed-beta development phase.
Our discussion focuses on his time at SpaceX, what inspired him to start Quilter, and how his team best manages any potential difficulties in Quilter’s design, development, and upcoming hard-launch.
Quilter: https://www.quilter.ai
Quilter is an AI/ML solution in PCB/circuit board design and is currently in a closed-beta development phase.
Our discussion focuses on his time at SpaceX, what inspired him to start Quilter, and how his team best manages any potential difficulties in Quilter’s design, development, and upcoming hard-launch.
Quilter: https://www.quilter.ai
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May 30, 2023 • 18 mins
Brenda Discher is the SVP of Marketing and Strategy at Siemens.
Siemens has been an important mainstay in communications tech, product and manufacturing design for almost 200 years.
They continue to be part of several breakthroughs in communications tech, product and manufacturing design, and now provide project and RFQ management tools for manufacturers at several scales.
Our discussion includes her start at Applicon before it was ac...
Siemens has been an important mainstay in communications tech, product and manufacturing design for almost 200 years.
They continue to be part of several breakthroughs in communications tech, product and manufacturing design, and now provide project and RFQ management tools for manufacturers at several scales.
Our discussion includes her start at Applicon before it was ac...
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