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The BOM: Engineering a Path Forward
by Supplyframe
The BOM (or “bill of materials”) is a weekly Supplyframe DesignLab Podcast hosted by Head of Design & Partnerships Majenta Strongheart. Each week, through digestible conversations with the world’s leading innovators, hackers, and entrepreneurs, Majenta and her guests explore the future of how hardware projects are built and brought to market, investigate technological solutions to the world's toughest challenges, help bridge the gap between makers, startups, and investors, and celebrate the transformational power of design. Presented by Supplyframe DesignLab
Episodes
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Form, Function, and Design Harmony With Anthony Oyatayo
In this episode of The BOM: Engineering A Path Forward we have the pleasure of sitting down with Engineering Program Manager for Apple and interior designer Anthony Oyatayo to learn a bit more about how the principles of design find their way into engineering. Anthony is going to tell us why soft...
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Smaller Drones For A Bigger World with Eric Weinhoffer
Today, in this episode of the Bom: Engineering a Path, we’re sitting down with Eric Weinhoffer, Senior Hardware Development Specialist at Skydio. Skydio isn’t just a drone company but instead an organization looking to advance what is even possible in safety and situational intelligence for first...
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Supercharging Start-ups at mHub w/Bill Fienup
In this episode of the Bom: Engineering A Path Forward we’re at Chicago’s ideal fab lab, mHub with co-founder Bill Fienup. Most design labs in the US work off a basic subscription model and have access to tools that most start-ups don’t have. mHub is no different in that aspect but as Bill...
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Music and Haptic Design w/ Fred Kelly
In this episode of the Bom: Engineering A Path Forward we’re back at mHub in Chicago looking at how music technology is more than synths and software. It’s everything from basic controllers that play a single sound to full haptic feedback setups that in recent times have been used to create an...
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Game-changing Tech: The Evolution of Wireless Power w/ Jacob Babcock
In this episode of the Bom: Engineering A Path Forward, we sit down with the CEO of a company that has basically created magic. NuCurrent is at the forefront of wireless charging and futuristic wireless power technology from pop sockets that charge your phone to smart basketballs and medical...
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Unreleased Special With 3D Printing Genuis Vijay Varada
As you have probably noticed, we’ve been on a bit of a break but we’re coming back with exclusive interviews from amazing events and locations. This summer, we’ve been on the road to Chicago to visit mHub to talk with some of the founders, engineers, and builders of incredible hardware and...
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How to Build A Better Space For Artists and Engineers w/ Chris Iwasjuta
In this episode of The Bom: Engineering A Path Forward, we take a look at the way that collaboration spaces can be redesigned to better foster innovation with artists, designers, and engineers. We’re going to hear from the Co-founder of MotionLab.Berlin Chris Iwasjuta about the origin story of...
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Practical Advice for an Imperfect World With Sera Evcimen
In this episode of The Bom: Engineering a Path Forward, we welcome Sera Evcimen, Founder of the startup consulting firm Pratik. Pratik focuses on finding practical solutions to finish hardware stacks and help get their product to market. Sera’s unique insight into the process of fleshing out a...
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Weaving the Fabric of the Future With Madison Maxey
In this episode of The Bom: Engineering a Path Forward, we sit down with the Founder and CEO of Loomia, Madison Maxey.Loomia is an e-textile company that is redefining what’s possible in flexible circuitry and electronics-integrated fabrics. We’ll get a peek into Madison’s predictions about the...
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Where Open Source Meets 3D-Printing w/ Vijay Raghav Varada
Today, on The Bom: Engineering A Path Forward we sit down with Fracktal Works Co-founder Vijay Raghav Varada. Vijay walks us through the need for 3D-printed parts in advanced manufacturing and where traditional CNC parts fail, why he decided to keep Fracktal Work projects open source, and the...
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Sitting Down For Family Dinner Aboard Space Stations
In this episode of The Bom: Engineering a Path Forward, I’m going to ask you to think about a rather futurist question: what does daily life look like in space? Sure, we have the Hollywood version of life amongst the stars. Star Wars, Dune, and even cult classics like Alien give us an idealistic...
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How A Music Collective Is Reimagining Sound Engineering
In this episode of The Bom: Engineering a Path Forward, we’re talking about the process of turning engineering components into musical instruments and how that has the potential to change many aspects of our culture. At least, that’s what my guest today, Kirk Pearson, founder of Dogbotic…
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Episode 42: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky Teaches How To Adapt To A Changing Problem
Majenta Strongheart sits down with Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, the co-founder and CEO of Instrumental. Instrumental is focused on one of the most important aspects of the manufacturing world today. Creating a more efficient quality tracking system in the production process that so many hardware...
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Episode 41: Wearables That Matter: How Effective Data and Health Sciences Can Change The World with Rosalind Picard
Rosalind Picard is the founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Lab at MIT and co-founded both Affectiva and Empatica. Both companies are aimed at using extensive AI and wearable tech to improve the lives of people with chronic illnesses and make robots act a little more human....
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Episode 40: The 60 Second Architect with Tomide Adesanmi
Tomide Adesanmi is the co-founder and CEO of Circuit Mind. Algorithmic software that helps electronics engineers and designers go from architecture to complete schematics in roughly 60 seconds. In Tomide's experience, far too many electronics designers and engineers spend far too much time…
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Episode 39: A Quick Announcement
Majenta expresses gratitude to the fantastic listeners and shares some thrilling news. While The BOM takes a brief break to gear up, Majenta teases upcoming interviews featuring guests from Motorola and other incredible technology and hardware companies. She encourages listeners to dive into the...
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Episode 38: Augmented Reality Is Not Just a Gimmick with Mareike Kritzler
Mareike Kritzler is the Siemens research group head of the Smart Machine Vision and Visualization team. The team’s research keeps the human in the loop and allows for interaction with a Digital Twin or a physical machine through human-machine interfaces such as Augmented Reality. Before Mareike...
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Episode 37: The Best Way For Creatives To Combine Curiosity And Technology To Produce Value with JD Sassaman
This was my talk with JD Sassaman, the accomplished architect and innovation expert currently developing Ford’s E mobility facilities in downtown Detroit. We spoke about the importance of diverse experience and teamwork, the childlike joy of creation, and the close relationship between technology...
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Episode 36: Open Source and Education with David Cuartielles
This was my interview with David Cuartielles, co-found of Arduino, Cuartielles has been an active advocate for open-source technology and has contributed to various projects focused on education, interactive installations, and creativity in the technology domain. He has been involved in…
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Episode 35: Redefining Innovation with Mike Deppe
Today we talked to Mike Deppe, VP of Product Development with Molex. With a background in mechanical engineering, Mike worked in several departments in his 21 years at Molex, which taught him to value knowledge sharing and talent that is curious to learn more. With over one hundred thousand...
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Episode 34: 3D Printing For Manufacturing, From Socket to Nailpolish with Easton LaChappelle
Today I spoke to Easton LaChappelle, founder of Unlimited Tomorrow which manufactures high-quality, customizable prosthetics accessible to people who couldn't afford traditional alternatives.Easton talks about his journey into the business and within it, his transition from creator to operator…
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Episode 33: LIFT—Making More than a Demo with Tom Hoffman
Tom Hoffman is the Portfolio Development Executive and Director of LIFT and Business Development for Digital Enterprise at Siemens.LIFT is a joint public-privaste program run by several engineering firms, college, and the US Department of Defense operated by the American Lightweight Materials...
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Episode 32: Constructing With Open Doors with Fernando Bales
This week, we were on-site speaking with Fernando Bales, build lab manager for Citizen Robotics in Detroit, Michigan. Citizen Robotics is a non-profit working to reduce the cost – both in labor hours and in dollars – of building new homes through the use of robotics. Beyond that, they’re also...
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Episode 31: Starts at the Hackathon with Zvi Feuer
Zvi Feuer is the SVP of Manufacturing Engineering at Siemens Industry Software (SISW). This episode covers Zvi’s decades of experience starting his career in industrial engineering, pivoting to management and business development, his takeaways from managing a fully-remote team, and how Siemens...
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Episode 30: Harmony in Circuitry with Alberto Gianelli
Alberto Gianelli is the Senior Electronic Engineer of teenage engineering, a Stockholm, Sweden, based music equipment developer and manufacturer.Teenage Engineering has been developing and releasing very popular, highly portable equipment since 2007 including the OP-1, a pocket micro-synth that…
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Episode 29: Automating PCB Circuit Design with Sergiy Nesterenko
Sergiy Nesterenko is the CEO and cofounder of Quilter.Quilter is an AI/ML solution in PCB/circuit board design and is currently in a closed-beta development phase.Our discussion focuses on his time at SpaceX, what inspired him to start Quilter, and how his team best manages any potential...
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Episode 28: Same Industry, Different Roles with Brenda Discher
Brenda Discher is the SVP of Marketing and Strategy at Siemens.Siemens has been an important mainstay in communications tech, product and manufacturing design for almost 200 years.They continue to be part of several breakthroughs in communications tech, product and manufacturing design, and now...
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Episode 27: A Front Row Seat to the Future With Chrissy Meyer
Chrissy Meyer discovered electrical engineering at age 9 and never looked back. Now a partner at Root Ventures, she helps provide initial funding for companies tackling new and complex technical projects.We’ll talk about how the time she spent at Apple developing iconic products like the iPod…
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Episode 26: From Recording Room to the Stratosphere with Randa Milliron
From Recording Room to the Stratosphere with Randa MillironRanda currently takes on the corporate administration, marketing, public relations, and government clearance aspects at Interorbital Systems aside from being a pivotal part of aerospace sustainability solution discovery. Interorbital...
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Episode 25: The Modern Space Race With Sirina Nabhan
Today I’m joined by a long-time friend of Supplyframe, Sirina Nabhan who has one of the coolest jobs in the world. Sirina is a product and data systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.After graduating from UC Riverside, Sirina landed a three-month internship at NASA. Then, a few…
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Episode 24: Robots and Race Cars With Paul Mitchell
What does AI have to do with motorsports? This week I’m joined by Paul Mitchell, the President of the Indy Autonomous Challenge, a program where universities compete to build the best and fastest AI race car, some reaching speeds of 100 mph. Originally a million-dollar prize competition, it has...
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Episode 23: A New Guard in Crowdsourced Tech Development with Valentina Ratner
Valentina Ratner is the co-founder and CEO of AllSpice. She comes from an extensive project management background and holds a dual Harvard MBA and MS Engineering.We’ll be talking about adapting to new tech tools and trends in this ever growing development solution ecosystem with the principles…
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Episode 22: Designing Digital Collectibles: A Conversation with Joey Jones
Cory Grossman, who was previously interviewed on The BOM, and I will have a discussion with Joey Jones, the Vice President and Executive Creative Director at Candy Digital, a Web3 design agency.Candy Digital currently has several joint non-fungible token (NFT) projects with the MLB, NASCAR,...
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Episode 21: Building Customer Confidence With Ying
Ying works for Win-Source Electronics, Asia’s largest electronic components supplier. I got to spend some time with Ying at Electronica Munich last year, and had a chance to learn all about this massive online superstore and how it works.I sat down again with Ying, this time from across the globe...
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Episode 20: Hone Your Skills With Sarah Rich
Today I’m speaking with the amazing Sarah Rich. Not only is Sarah VP of Operations and Customer Success at SupplyFrame, she was actually the first employee the company hired back in 2003. Ever since then, Sarah’s presence has been essential in the growth of Supplyframe.Today, Sarah and I talk…
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Episode 19: Electronica with Mike Casper and Matt Johnson
Today I’m speaking at Electronica in Munich with CEO and Cofounder of AZUMO, Mike Casper, and Matt Johnson of Bare Conductive and LAIIER.Mike Casper is the founder and CEO of AZUMO, a display technology company that is revolutionizing the industry. It’s effective and ultra thin LCD 2.0 reflective...
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Episode 18: Three is a Company with Supercon 6
Today I am at Supercon 6 where I’m going to speak with three incredible guests, and talented Solderers, Helen Leigh, Steven, and Tom! Helen Leigh is a maker, an electronic textiles specialist, and a hardware hacker. She is the Head of Community at Crowd Supply and the author of "The Crafty Kid's...
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Episode 17: Building a Sustainable City with Tomas Diez
Today I am in the gorgeous city of Bali at the Bali Fab Fest; where each year members of the more than 2,000 worldwide Fab Labs gather to share, discuss, collaborate and create communities around the different local and global interests regarding digital manufacturing, innovation, and…
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Episode 16: The Overarching Theme
Today on the show, we’re looking back over the last four months of The BOM podcast and revisiting some of our favorite moments. From Jayy Moss’s dedication to accessibility and representation in the maker community on through Kate McAndrew’s focus on building and investing in the brightest teams...
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Episode 15: Evoking Feeling with Spaces w/ Cory Grosser
Today on the podcast, we’re joined by product designer, interior architect, and art director Cory Grosser.We’ll talk about some of the exciting things that are coming soon to the BOM podcast and the process of creating the DesignLab Space. Plus, how Cory got into design in the first place, and…
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Episode 14: A New World of Electronics w/ Jasmine Brackett
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...
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Episode 13: Decentralized Wireless Networks w/ Clarissa Redwine
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…
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Episode 12: Language, Mathematics and Pictures w/ Kitty Yeung
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...
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Episode 11: Marco Tarabini, PhD
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...
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Episode 10: MakerBay Founder & Educator Cesar Jung-Harada
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...
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Episode 9: Girls Garage Founder Emily Pilloton-Lam
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...
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Episode 8: Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams
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...
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Episode 7: Conservify Founder Shah Selbe | Open Source Conservation
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...
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Episode 6: Sameera Chukkapalli Holmes & Jason Knight | The Power of Open Source (Part 2 of 2)
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...
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Episode 5: Sameera Chukkapalli Holmes & Jason Knight | The Power of Open Source (Part 1 of 2)
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...
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The BOM (or “bill of materials”) is a weekly Supplyframe DesignLab Podcast hosted by Head of Design & Partnerships Majenta Strongheart. Each week, through digestible conversations with the world’s leading innovators, hackers, and entrepreneurs, Majenta and her guests explore the future of how hardware projects are built and brought to market, investigate technological solutions to the world's toughest challenges, help bridge the gap between makers, startups, and investors, and celebrate the transformational power of design.
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