Listen to your hosts Dave Jones & Chris Gammell talk about electronics design and the electronics industry in general. If you have any interest in electronics at all, from hobbyist/hacker/maker to engineering professional you'll find something of interest here.
After that he worked at Voxel8 on the Developer’s Kit, the 3D printer that could do plastics plus circuits. You may remember a quadcopter that could fly off of the print bed.
Using a high end milling machine, they could get 100 micron trace/space. They did this by milling out the channel and filling with silver.
Things went quiet on the circuits front, so Voxel8 moved into rapidly printed footwear. Things like “stylized uppers”
First printer launched was called the developers kits and was good for doing things like 3D antennas and getting blind vias for free.
Kyle recently graduated from the new MS/MBA program at Harvard.
He mostly took CS / Datascience classes on the technical front, because of the availability of graduate level classes. So no exposure to Horowitz or Hill, unfortunately.
Kyle started Allspice with his classmate Valentina, as a way to make hardware design more like software.
Building a git release for hardware designs, instead of relying on zip files. This took direct cues from his experience doing product development.
Processes are built around the waterfall development process
When starting the EE team at Voxel, they used GitHub
What would you tell a new hire for using Git?
These days, younger EEs do firmware anyway.
How does git work?
Git allows design revision control
Different than Subversion, another revision control method used by Altium.
Git holds the entire history, and only tracks the incremental changes.
Separation between local and remote.
Jesse Vincent’s talk at KiCon about tooling for manufacturing files
Using Continuous Integration
Simulation is usually super targeted, trying to get 4th order accuracy
Atul Gowande Checklist Manifesto
Tying footprints to MPN
Initial focus was on teams using git with hardware designs
Building visual red-lines, so that you can see what has changed during a design review.
Kyle can name the likelihood of a CAD program based on industry!
Altium building Altium365
Explaining how a change ripples out
Users of Git and Allspice will learn to break changes up into the most digestible changes
JEDEC30 format
Component information
Pull request is analogous to the ECO process
“Can this be done” vs “Should this be done”
Unit testing
How would this work with PCB manufacturing?
Tagging to put a version on a board. Chris used to put commit numbers on PCBs.
Check out Allspice for more info, or email Kyle directly