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#435 – An Interview with Andreas Spiess
Welcome, Andreas Spiess!
- You may know Andreas from his YouTube channel about connected devices and electronics, as “the guy with the Swiss accent”
- The content on the channel is for intermediate people
- A lot of his content is piecing things together
- His newest video shows how to use tire pressure monitoring systems for home brewing
- The advantage of age is having seen a lot and having “lots of hooks in the brain”
- Goethe wrote “I didn’t have enough time to make it this short“
- Andreas got started in the 70s, working on a forbidden fm transmitter
- CB radio wasn’t allowed in Switzerland at the time.
- He was in military service, where he learned Morse code.
- He later worked in Cameroon and Damascus for the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- After a degree in EE, he realized he made his hobby into his job.
- After an MBA, Andreas started doing product management.
- He also had a product that was a Morse code trainer. These were the topics of his first few videos on YouTube.
- “Every engineer should go into sales” to learn about things like sales pressure and budgeting.
- PhD in sales of investment goods.
- Using tech used in manufacturing (SPC) but applied to sales.
- First you had to find a process
- ERP systems
- Automation for buying parts
- Rules are important for automation
- “The most applied rule is ‘it depends’. This requires trained people which is expensive.”
- Even AI is finding out the rules
- “The most valuable world in the world is no”
- ESP32, ESP8266
- Rules based influenced on IoT interests
- First computer was TRS80
- James Bruton
- Ben Krasnow’s cookie machine
- Ben Krasnow’s video on laser traces.
- Multiple Dimensions is a company that Andreas helped get started. They make 3D PCBs, shown in the video above.
- Videos about antenna performance
- Influence of battery life on antenna
- Was first meant for PCBs and then later antennas were figured out
- Sleepwalking an ESP32
- Using both cores on the ESP32
- Building a reggae robot.
- AvE and This Old Tony
- Fleet management
- IoT App Story
- OTA updates
- Other things coming on the channel like BLE
- Micro (circuit) python vs arduino
- Will be doing a video with Damien George
- Benchmarks of micropython
- Check any of Andreas’ videos for contact info. He’s on FB and Twitter but mostly YouTube.