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#316 – An Interview with Robert Feranec
Welcome Robert Feranec of Fedevel Academy!
- Robert started designing electronics in 2000 post university. His first project was designing an IP telephone using Linux.
- While his paid course is at Fedevel.com, he has free videos on his youtube channel called “matarofe”
- We enjoyed his video on how to work as a freelancer. There are two kinds of freelancer:
- Lifestyle freelancers
- Status seekers
- He later realized 3 things about freelance
- Limited by hours
- Always working for someone else
- Only get to sell work once
- The iMX6 Rex is one of his large projects, though you can view all 4 projects (and associated courses) here.
- Robert just attended PCB west and saw the new active router created by Altium. This was discussed at length on the EEVblog forum.
- When Altium changed how the board outline was done, Robert did a video on how it had changed (instead of updating the private course)
- Robert has been trying out Circuit Studio. Dave likes the pricing.
- The main open design for Fedevel is the OpenRex.
- Dave recently proposed changes to the OSHW logo that he believes will unify the ideas.
- Chris will be at OHS in early October and Robert may join as well!