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	Podcast:		The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
	Episode:		#386 – An Interview with Andrew Sowa
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		01:01:04
	Publish Date:		2018-04-01 23:40:51
	Description:		Welcome, Andrew Sowa! Andrew is a “KiCad artist”! 0h 2m 48s Interview with Saar from Boldport 0h 5m 26s The layers of PCBs provide a color palette 0h 7m 15s SVGs are made using Inkscape or illustrator 0h 8m 27s Chris uses Sketch (mac only) 0h 9m 14s Andrew wrote a tutorial about how to render into 6 colors 0h 9m 42s Crosshatch in color 0h 10m 26s Flouresce under UV 0h 11m 32s Benchoff badges 0h 12m 11s Pumping Station: One 0h 12m 56s Tour of Art Institute shops by Supplyframe 0h 14m 51s His day job is fixtures for decorative lighting 0h 19m 55s Working with Contract Manufacturers (Andrew later wrote about this) 0h 21m 34s Pairing power supply and LED board 0h 22m 59s Binning LEDs for color temp consistency 0h 24m 13s Blackbody curve, mixing colors 0h 24m 59s Driver for multiple color 0h 26m 54s Commercial fixtures are variable voltage and current driven, but are about 36V output 0h 29m 37s <70 Hz is epileptic issues 0h 31m 15s 120Hz flicker drives CA regulations 0h 31m 28s Andrew had a crowdfunding campaign for Faust, a high end LED fixture for growing plants 0h 32m 6s This ran (and was unsuccessful in funding) on Indiegogo 0h 36m 5s Chicago aquaponics 0h 39m 3s Nat’l Geo article about growing food in greenhouses 0h 39m 26s Teardown Portland 0h 43m 45s Josh Lifton started Teardown 0h 44m 41s Joe Grand will be giving a talk 0h 45m 11s Bunnie will be giving a talk 0h 45m 18s Chris will be giving a KiCad workshop as well at ToorCamp 0h 46m 27s Andrew wrote a blog post about the art process 0h 47m 18s Andrew will be going to OHS, Superconference 0h 48m 3s 2018 Open Hardware Summit 0h 48m 51s Whitney Merrill talking about Badgelife 0h 50m 15s Kerry Sharfglass about building a badge 0h 52m 33s Hackaday prize 0h 55m 10s Andrew will be building a “Bus Tracker” 0h 56m 52s Andrew was on “Call In show 3” 0h 58m 57s Andrew writes for Supplyframe Hardware 1h 0m 24s Follow Andrew on Twitter as @JunesPHD 1h 0m 41s
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