Pick, Place, Podcast
The Pick, Place, Podcast is a show where we talk about electronics manufacturing and everything related to getting a circuit board into the world. Join hosts Chris Denney from Worthington and Melissa Hough from CircuitHub as they discuss the pcb assembly process, design tips that will make your manufacturer love you, and talk to industry guests.
Pick, Place, Podcast
An EDA Tool Walks Into a CM w/ Fusion 360 Electronics Product Manager, Ben Jordan
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Episode 32
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We're very excited to be joined on this episode by Ben Jordan. Ben, who was previously at Altium for many years, now works at Autodesk as a Senior Product Manager for the Fusion 360 Electronics product.
We chat about:
- Why we call them DuPont headers
- Machine pin headers are awesome
- A brief history of Altium's founding in Australia as Protel Systems
- Chris' love for Australia
- Lots of Ben's dad jokes
- The Coriolis Effect, Ben's new show with Bil Herd
- Fusion 360 - the benefits of using a unified ECAD-MCAD-SIM software platform
- Chris has finally found a perforated cardboard tab that actually works: https://www.packworld.com/issues/sustainability/article/21136720/nespresso-coffee-capsule-made-from-80-recycled-content
- Ben's pet peeve - people who abuse nonstick pans
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