Kyle Dumont's guest appearances

Kyle Dumont

The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

MacroFab Engineering Podcast

PCB Chat

Eli Hughes

Joe Grand

Jason Cerundolo

Christina Cyr

John Davis

Andreas Spiess

Jean Rintoul

Matt Berggren

Nash Reilly

Trammell Hudson

Craig J Bishop

Pete Bevelacqua

Greg Davill

Michael Ossmann

Scott Miller

OwlTail

Welcome, Kyle Dumont of Allspice!  Kyle has a background in EE and worked at iRobot. 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

<p>Welcome, <a href="https://allspice.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kyle Dumont of Allspice</a>!</p> <ul> <li>Kyle has a background in EE and worked at <a href="https://www.irobot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iRobot</a>.</li> <li>After that he worked at <a href="https://www.voxel8.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Voxel8</a> on the Developer’s Kit, the 3D printer that could do plastics plus circuits. You may remember <a href="http://store.voxel8.com/case-studies/2016/4/26/quadcopter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a quadcopter that could fly off of the print bed</a>.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Things went quiet on the circuits front, so Voxel8 moved into rapidly printed footwear. Things like “stylized uppers”</li> <li>First printer launched was called the developers kits and was good for doing things like 3D antennas and getting blind vias for free.</li> <li>Kyle recently graduated from the new <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/mba/academic-experience/joint-degree-programs/school-of-engineering-and-applied-sciences/Pages/default.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MS/MBA program at Harvard</a>.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Kyle started Allspice with his classmate Valentina, as a way to make hardware design more like software.</li> <li>Building a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">git</a> release for hardware designs, instead of relying on zip files. This took direct cues from his experience doing product development.</li> <li>Processes are built around <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model#:~:text=In%20software%20development%2C%20it%20tends,%2C%20testing%2C%20deployment%20and%20maintenance." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the waterfall development process</a></li> <li>When starting the EE team at Voxel, <a href="https://github.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">they used GitHub</a></li> <li>What would you tell a new hire for using Git?</li> <li>These days, younger EEs do firmware anyway.</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWYqp7iY_Tc&amp;feature=emb_logo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How does git work?</a></li> <li>Git allows design revision control</li> <li>Different than <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Subversion" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subversion</a>, another revision control method used by Altium.</li> <li>Git holds the entire history, and only tracks the incremental changes.</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg4bLk8cGNo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Separation between local and remote.</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZCyk3rmmGQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jesse Vincent’s talk at KiCon about tooling for manufacturing files</a></li> <li>Using Continuous Integration</li> <li>Simulation is usually super targeted, trying to get 4th order accuracy</li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086XF436Z/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Atul Gowande Checklist Manifesto</a></li> <li>Tying footprints to MPN</li> <li>Initial focus was on teams using git with hardware designs</li> <li>Building visual red-lines, so that you can see what has changed during a design review.</li> <li>Kyle can name the likelihood of a CAD program based on industry!</li> <li>Altium building <a href="https://www.altium.com/altium-365" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Altium365</a></li> <li>Explaining how a change ripples out</li> <li>Users of Git and Allspice will learn to break changes up into the most digestible changes</li> <li><a href="https://www.jedec.org/category/technology-focus-area/jep30" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JEDEC30 format</a></li> <li>Component information</li> <li><a href="https://blog.axosoft.com/learning-git-pull-request/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pull request</a> is analogous to the ECO process</li> <li>“Can this be done” vs “Should this be done”</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_testing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unit testing</a></li> <li>How would this work with PCB manufacturing?</li> <li><a href="https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tagging</a> to put a version on a board. Chris used to put commit numbers on PCBs.</li> <li>Check out <a href="https://allspice.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Allspice</a> for more info, or email <a href="mailto:kyle@allspice.io">Kyle</a> directly</li></ul>

#505 – Hardware Revision Control with Kyle Dumont

Valentina Toll Villagra

MEP EP#210: Valentina Toll Villagra and Kyle Dumont with Allspice.ioKyle Dumont  Experienced electronics designer having launched consumer products at large companies and startups for over 7 years Has developed low volume products for government and military applications and high volume commercial products  Valentina Toll Villagra  Project Manager exploring the intersection of physical and digital systems at Allspice Worked at Amazon expanding its national customer fulfillment network and rolling out internal productivity, collaboration and project management software applications to support the company's growth  Allspice.io  Rundown of the platform Where did the name come from How did it begin?  The word “Agile” gets thrown around a lot. Mechanical engineers have 3D printing and Software developers have great design and test tools.   What are your roles?  Kyle – Development, strategy Valentina – Operations, customer success, marketing, product   How big is the team? How does Allspice affect the engineer? The manager? Diff control? How is this implemented? Launch and the future?  When does it launch? Are there plans to expand the offerings to other EDA tools? What is next?   

<h4><a href="https://macrofab.com/blog/mep-ep210-valentina-toll-villagra-and-kyle-dumont-with-allspice-io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MEP EP#210: Valentina Toll Villagra and Kyle Dumont with Allspice.io</a><br/></h4><h4><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyledumont/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Kyle Dumont</a></h4> <ul> <li>Experienced electronics designer having launched consumer products at large companies and startups for over 7 years</li> <li>Has developed low volume products for government and military applications and high volume commercial products</li> </ul> <h4><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentinatollvillagra/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Valentina Toll Villagra</a></h4> <ul> <li>Project Manager exploring the intersection of physical and digital systems at Allspice</li> <li>Worked at Amazon expanding its national customer fulfillment network and rolling out internal productivity, collaboration and project management software applications to support the company's growth</li> </ul> <h4><a href="https://www.allspice.io/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Allspice.io</a></h4> <ul> <li>Rundown of the platform</li> <li>Where did the name come from</li> <li>How did it begin? <ul> <li>The word “Agile” gets thrown around a lot.</li> <li>Mechanical engineers have 3D printing and Software developers have great design and test tools.</li> </ul> </li> <li>What are your roles? <ul> <li>Kyle – Development, strategy</li> <li>Valentina – Operations, customer success, marketing, product</li> </ul> </li> <li>How big is the team?</li> <li>How does Allspice affect the engineer? The manager?</li> <li>Diff control? How is this implemented?</li> <li>Launch and the future? <ul> <li>When does it launch?</li> <li>Are there plans to expand the offerings to other EDA tools?</li> <li>What is next?</li> </ul> </li> </ul>

MEP EP#210: Valentina Toll Villagra and Kyle Dumont with Allspice.io