The BOM: Engineering a Path Forward

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Episode 14: A New World of Electronics w/ Jasmine Brackett Sep 27, 2022

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Today on the podcast, we’re joined by Jasmine Brackett, a jill-of-many-trades who’s currently running Tindie, an online community marketplace that helps hardware creators get their projects into the hands of electronics enthusiasts worldwide.
We’ll talk about how a love of crafting led her to costuming and how Burning Man introduced her to the world of electronics. And how her passion for positive change and a more collaborative future fuels all of her endeavors.
Plus we’ll talk all about Tindie. How a subreddit helped launch it, what it is and why it’s revolutionary. Plus a few of the cool things you can buy there, and some tips for those of you who dream of building and selling your own hardware– from supply to testing to shipping.
Hackaday projects helped Jasmine grow, so if you're interested in honing your own skills, check out the 2022 Hackaday Superconference. Get your tickets on Eventbrite now!
If you’re interested in electronics or if you believe the future is open source, you’re going to love my conversation with Jasmine Brackett.
The BOM is a Supplyframe podcast hosted by Majenta Strongheart, written and produced by Maggie Boles and Ryan Tillotson and edited by Daniel Ferera. Theme music is by Ana Hogben, with show art by Thomas Schneider. Special thanks to Giovanni Salinas, Bruce Dominguez, Thomas Woodward, Jin Kumar, Jordon Clark, Matt Gunn, the entire Supplyframe Team, and you, our wonderful listeners.

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Episode 13: Decentralized Wireless Networks w/ Clarissa Redwine Sep 14, 2022

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Today, we’re joined by Clarissa Redwine. When I first met Clarissa back in 2017, she was the West Coast Design and Tech outreach lead for Kickstarter. She’s also an NYU Law Fellow focused on open source hardware and is now the Grant’s Program Manager at Helium, a wireless network that’s working to build a decentralized telecom.You can follow @Supplyframe and @Hackaday on Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter, and @SupplyframeDesignLab on Instagram and Twitter.
The BOM is a Supplyframe podcast hosted by Majenta Strongheart, written, produced, and edited by Frank Driscoll and co-edited by Daniel Ferera. Executive producers are Ryan Tillotson and Tyler Nielsen. Theme music is by Ana Hogben, with show art by Thomas Schneider. Special thanks to Giovanni Salinas, Bruce Dominguez, Thomas Woodward, Jin Kumar, Jordon Clark, Matt Gunn, the entire Supplyframe Team, and you, our wonderful listeners.

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Episode 12: Language, Mathematics and Pictures w/ Kitty Yeung Sep 08, 2022

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Today we discuss Kitty’s extensive background in education, her work at Microsoft, her thoughts on STEAM and why it’s so important to integrate art into tech, and how she hopes to create a more sustainable future through teaching, designing, and doing lots and lots of art.
You can follow @Supplyframe and @Hackaday on Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter, and @SupplyframeDesignLab on Instagram and Twitter.
The BOM is a Supplyframe podcast hosted by Majenta Strongheart, written, produced, and edited by Frank Driscoll and co-edited by Daniel Ferera. Executive producers are Ryan Tillotson and Tyler Nielsen. Theme music is by Ana Hogben, with show art by Thomas Schneider. Special thanks to Giovanni Salinas, Bruce Dominguez, Thomas Woodward, Jin Kumar, Jordon Clark, Matt Gunn, the entire Supplyframe Team, and you, our wonderful listeners.

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Episode 11: Marco Tarabini, PhD Aug 30, 2022

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Continuing our education theme, our guest today is educator, researcher, and author Marco Tarabini. Marco is a mechanical systems engineer, professor of Mechanical and Thermal measurement at Politecnico di Milano, author of more than 100 scientific publications, and coordinator of two Joint Research Centers. He studies vibration in humans and measurement uncertainty in harsh environments. On today’s episode we discuss Marco’s background in education and mechanical and thermal measurement, his mission to connect small manufacturing enterprises with his university and its students, and his vast data research.
You can follow @Supplyframe and @Hackaday on Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter, and @SupplyframeDesignLab on Instagram and Twitter.
The BOM is a Supplyframe podcast hosted by Majenta Strongheart, written, produced, and edited by Frank Driscoll and co-edited by Daniel Ferera. Executive producers are Ryan Tillotson and Tyler Nielsen. Theme music is by Ana Hogben, with show art by Thomas Schneider. Special thanks to Giovanni Salinas, Bruce Dominguez, Thomas Woodward, Jin Kumar, Jordon Clark, Matt Gunn, the entire Supplyframe Team, and you, our wonderful listeners.

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Episode 10: MakerBay Founder & Educator Cesar Jung-Harada Aug 23, 2022

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Continuing our series on Education in Design and Tech, today we are joined by the prolific inventor, conservationist, student, and educator Cesar Jung-Harada. Cesar is the Founder and Director of “MakerBay”, a Hong Kong network of innovation centers and the Founder and CEO of the ocean robotic startup “Scoutbots” developing ocean sensors and transportation technology to explore and protect the oceans. Cesar is also a TED Senior Fellow and his most popular talk has about 2 million views, and has been translated into more than thirty languages. He was the opening speaker of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference about ocean innovation. Cesar's current research includes Impact Invention, Social Innovation, Critical and Speculative Design, ocean exploration and conservation technologies, and creative community building. Cesar is a Senior Lecturer for the Design+ Bachelor of Arts and Sciences Programme. He teaches both technical and theoretical aspects of design with an emphasis on inventions with social and environmental impact. He was trained in Design Thinking by George Kembel (co-founder of Stanford d-School) and in Rapid Prototyping by Tom Chi (co-founder of Google X). He is also a dear friend to the Supplyframe DesignLab community, and was a 2020 Hackaday Prize Judge. Today we discuss what inspired Cesar to pursue a life in design, conservation, and education, his brilliant teaching work with folks of all ages, and the tangible impact he is having on our oceans through innovative design.
You can follow @Supplyframe and @Hackaday on Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter, and @SupplyframeDesignLab on Instagram and Twitter.
The BOM is a Supplyframe podcast hosted by Majenta Strongheart, written, produced, and edited by Frank Driscoll and co-edited by Daniel Ferera. Executive producers are Ryan Tillotson and Tyler Nielsen. Theme music is by Ana Hogben, with show art by Thomas Schneider. Special thanks to Giovanni Salinas, Bruce Dominguez, Thomas Woodward, Jin Kumar, Jordon Clark, Matt Gunn, the entire Supplyframe Team, and you, our wonderful listeners

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Episode 9: Girls Garage Founder Emily Pilloton-Lam Aug 16, 2022

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This month, we are exploring the theme of Education in Design and Technology, and the ways in which educators and students are changing the world through innovation. To kick off this theme, we are joined by the brilliant designer, builder, author and educator Emily Pilloton-Lam.
Emily is the Founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Girls Garage. She has taught thousands of young girls how to use power tools, weld, and build projects for their communities. She has presented her work and ideas on the TED stage, The Colbert Report, and in the documentary film If You Build It. She was also a 2020 Hackaday Prize Judge. She is currently a lecturer in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Girls Garage is a nonpro fit design and construction school for girls and gender-expansive youth ages 9-18 that provides free and low-cost programs in carpentry, welding, architecture, engineering, and activist art to a diverse community of 300 students per year. Integrating technical skills, unconditional support, and community leadership, their programs equip youth with the personal power and literal power tools to build the world they want to see. In their 3,600-square-foot workshop in Berkeley and under the guidance of their highly skilled all-female and nonbinary instructors, they invite students to bring their creative voice and put technical skills to work on real-world building projects that live in their community. To date, participants have built 184 projects ranging from furniture for a domestic abuse shelter to a greenhouse for a community garden and fruit stand for an organization serving refugee families. All teen participants attend the program at no cost to their families. In short, Girls Garage is making a tangible difference through the power of accessible education.
You can follow @Supplyframe and @Hackaday on Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter, and @SupplyframeDesignLab on Instagram and Twitter.
The BOM is a Supplyframe podcast hosted by Majenta Strongheart, written, produced, and edited by Frank Driscoll and co-edited by Daniel Ferera. Executive producers are Ryan Tillotson and Tyler Nielsen. Theme music is by Ana Hogben, with show art by Thomas Schneider. Special thanks to Giovanni Salinas, Bruce Dominguez, Thomas Woodward, Jin Kumar, Jordon Clark, Matt Gunn, the entire Supplyframe Team, and you, our wonderful listeners.

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Episode 8: Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams Jul 26, 2022

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To wrap up our series on THE POWER OF OPEN SOURCE, this week Majenta is joined by a very special guest, the Editor-in-chief of Hackaday, Elliot Williams.
Elliot is the kind of guy who uses a 1990’s five-inch hard drive platter as a scroll wheel. He’s the kind of guy who stays up late debugging home-brew PCBs for random synthesizer modules or figuring out why that interrupt routine isn’t firing. He loves to see projects that are either ultra-minimalist — cleverly squeezing every ounce of performance out of some cheap silicon — or so insanely over the top that they dazzle you with overkill. After spending eight great years in Washington DC teaching econometrics and working on inflation by day and running a hackerspace by night, Elliot handed in his badge, moved to Munich and started writing as a hacker. He published his first book Make: AVR Programming in 2014, and Now he’ s pleased as punch to be Editor-in-Chief of Hackaday.
In today’s episode, Elliott shares his journey to becoming editor-in-chief, the origin and evolution of Hackaday, and why open source is the heart beat of the Hackaday community.
You can follow @Supplyframe and @Hackaday on Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter, and @SupplyframeDesignLab on Instagram and Twitter.
The BOM is a Supplyframe podcast hosted by Majenta Strongheart, written, produced, and edited by Frank Driscoll and co-edited by Daniel Ferera. Executive producers are Ryan Tillotson and Tyler Nielsen. Theme music is by Ana Hogben, with show art by Thomas Schneider. Special thanks to Giovanni Salinas, Bruce Dominguez, Thomas Woodward, Jin Kumar, Jordon Clark, Matt Gunn, the entire Supplyframe Team, and you, our wonderful listeners.

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Episode 7: Conservify Founder Shah Selbe | Open Source Conservation Jul 19, 2022

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This week, 2019 Hackaday prize winner and 2022 Hackaday Prize Judge, Shah Selbe is here! Shah is the founder of Conservify and Managing Director at FieldKit, and a former resident here at DesignLab. It’s amazing to see how far he’s come. With his background in engineering and conservation, Shah works with developing countries and communities to come up with Open Source solutions for their biggest environmental problems.
Recently, Shah’s been living the dream! National Geographic hired him and his company, Conservify, to go on expeditions with scientists and conservationists. There they’ve been monitoring water in the Amazon Forest, watching the behaviorisms of lowland gorillas in Congo, and so much more.
Throughout this episode, Shah breaks down how open source technology is a key component for environmental and wildlife conservation and how Conserverify and FieldKit are adding to these conservation efforts.
With that being said, enjoy the episode!
You can follow @Supplyframe and @Hackaday on Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter, and @SupplyframeDesignLab on Instagram and Twitter.
The BOM is a Supplyframe podcast hosted by Majenta Strongheart, written, produced, and edited by Frank Driscoll and co-edited by Daniel Ferera. Executive producers are Ryan Tillotson and Tyler Nielsen. Theme music is by Ana Hogben, with show art by Thomas Schneider. Special thanks to Giovanni Salinas, Bruce Dominguez, Thomas Woodward, Jin Kumar, Jordon Clark, Matt Gunn, the entire Supplyframe Team, and you, our wonderful listeners.

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Episode 6: Sameera Chukkapalli Holmes & Jason Knight | The Power of Open Source (Part 2 of 2) Jul 12, 2022

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This week Majenta's DesignLab colleague, Giovanni Salinas, joins her again as our special co-host for Part 2 of their conversation with social entrepreneur Sameera Chukkapalli Holmes & industrial designer and founder Jason Knight. Our conversation was so enriching that we’ve broken this interview up into two episodes. The first will focus on Jason and Sameera’s backgrounds, how they met, and why they choose to harness the power of open source for social good. The second episode will focus more closely on their current projects, and go in depth on their Hackaday Prize 2020 Cal Earth Dream Team project.
In addition to founding and directing NeedLab, Sameera was recently selected as an "Obama Leader" by the Obama Foundation. She has designed and implemented human and environment-focused solutions in partnership with UN-Habitat and other City governments on 4 continents. As a maker and social entrepreneur, Sameera enjoys teaching workshops and making sustainable design solutions accessible to all. She describes Needlab as an organization which aims to “solve problems related to habitat and urban resilience in cities and rural communities.” A core ideology their work revolves around is ‘Think global, Act local’, and this can be seen in their people-focused designs. She is also a Hackaday Prize 2022 Judge.
Jason Knight is a product designer interested in biological fabrication and sustainable design who received a degree in Industrial and Product Design at Brunel University in London. He is a Technical Consultant for Needlab, the founder of Recycled Plastic Skateboard Deck (RPSD for short), co-founder of MANDIN Collective, a researcher for Precious Plastic, and an honorary member of Illutron.
You can follow @Supplyframe and @Hackaday on Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter, and @SupplyframeDesignLab on Instagram and Twitter.
The BOM is a Supplyframe podcast hosted by Majenta Strongheart, written, produced, and edited by Frank Driscoll and co-edited by Daniel Ferera. Executive producers are Ryan Tillotson and Tyler Nielsen. Theme music is by Ana Hogben, with show art by Thomas Schneider. Special thanks to Giovanni Salinas, Bruce Dominguez, Thomas Woodward, Jin Kumar, Jordon Clark, Matt Gunn, the entire Supplyframe Team, and you, our wonderful listener.

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Episode 5: Sameera Chukkapalli Holmes & Jason Knight | The Power of Open Source (Part 1 of 2) Jul 05, 2022

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This week Majenta's DesignLab colleague, Giovanni Salinas, joins her as our special co-host. Over the next four episodes, we will be talking about the power of open source technology and how it can be incorporated into socially impactful design. To kick off this theme, we catch up with social entrepreneur Sameera Chukkapalli Holmes & industrial designer and founder Jason Knight. Our conversation was so enriching that we’ve broken this interview up into two episodes. The first will focus on Jason and Sameera’s backgrounds, how they met, and why they choose to harness the power of open source for social good. The second episode will focus more closely on their current projects, and go in depth on their Hackaday Prize 2020 Cal Earth Dream Team project.
In addition to founding and directing NeedLab, Sameera was recently selected as an "Obama Leader" by the Obama Foundation. She has designed and implemented human and environment-focused solutions in partnership with UN-Habitat and other City governments on 4 continents. As a maker and social entrepreneur, Sameera enjoys teaching workshops and making sustainable design solutions accessible to all. She describes Needlab as an organization which aims to “solve problems related to habitat and urban resilience in cities and rural communities.” A core ideology their work revolves around is ‘Think global, Act local’, and this can be seen in their people-focused designs. She is also a Hackaday Prize 2022 Judge.
Jason Knight is a product designer interested in biological fabrication and sustainable design who received a degree in Industrial and Product Design at Brunel University in London. He is a Technical Consultant for Needlab, the founder of Recycled Plastic Skateboard Deck (RPSD for short), co-founder of MANDIN Collective, a researcher for Precious Plastic, and an honorary member of Illutron.
You can follow @Supplyframe and @Hackaday on Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter, and @SupplyframeDesignLab on Instagram and Twitter.
The BOM is a Supplyframe podcast hosted by Majenta Strongheart, written, produced, and edited by Frank Driscoll and co-edited by Daniel Ferera. Executive producers are Ryan Tillotson and Tyler Nielsen. Theme music is by Ana Hogben, with show art by Thomas Schneider. Special thanks to Giovanni Salinas, Bruce Dominguez, Thomas Woodward, Jin Kumar, Jordon Clark, Matt Gunn, the entire Supplyframe Team, and you, our wonderful listeners.

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