510: The Secret Chip
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Christina Cyr spoke with us about building cell phones, entrepreneurship, social purpose corporations, awards, lithium recycling, and her interesting career path. We talked about Christina’s , the related kit from dTOOR, and her . We also mentioned in the section about . There is a great paper from Nature about lithium-ion battery recycling: (formerly AngelList) is a startup focused job site that may lead to non-fulltime positions. may help you figure out is the startup has capital (also thought that generally has a cost). and the The quote was from and it was a...
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509: Swarmed by Engineers
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Steve Hinch wrote a book about engineering, innovation, and business. He shares decades of wisdom gleaned from his career at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent as an engineer, manager, marketing director, and general manager. Steve’s book is . While mostly retired, Steve is an executive consultant, see his website to get in touch: . We also touched on some of . While Elecia is reading , Steve suggested works by might be of interest. Elecia and Steve both received copies of Bill Packard’s while at HP. ...
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508: Descartes' Demon
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William Griffin spoke to us about hardware-in-the-loop testing, simulation, terminology, learning complex topics, and books. We don’t usually expand upon the show title but Wikipedia has a rabbit hole called so there you go. Books mentioned: (though we then talked about a different Jeffrey Pfeffer book: . William Griffin and Bailey Steinfadt () have started , an embedded software and simulation consultancy. Mouser Electronics has a dedicated Empowering Innovation Together hub that covers the latest breakthroughs in tech. Their new series explores how AI is...
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507: Turn Our Data Into Predators
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Chris and Elecia chat about books, courses, alternate podcasts, electronics, statistics, kidnapping Roo, and journaling failures. The Embedded Patreon book club is reading Data-Driven Science and Engineering: Machine Learning, Dynamical Systems, and Control by Steven L. Brunton, J. Nathan Kutz. PDF book and links to lectures are at . Some recent links of interest: : a collection of different small data sets that have the same summary statistics. You can . From . The YouTube video was really neat, which led to as well as making a $40 bird identifier with an RPi and some...
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506: How Do I Fit a Whale Into an Apartment Building?
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Dmitry Grinberg joined us to talk about running Linux on small microprocessors (physically small and/or 4-bit). Dmitry does this by emulating a MIPS processor. Boot times vary between minutes and days, depending on the processor. Dmitry’s projects are on his website () including: (Cortex-M0+!) Dmitry recommended , an online game about building up a processor. We mentioned Eric Schlaepfer of . He was on the show on , with EMSL’s Windell Oskay, talking about their book Open Circuits. Mouser Electronics has a dedicated Empowering Innovation Together hub that covers the...
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505: Potato in a Number Field
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We spoke with Peter Griffin about Jumperless Breadboards, no-install GUI development, Excel, and puppies. Excel GUI for Jumperless Breadboard (though it has some USB DTR issues as noted in the show: . Note Microsoft is a serial interface to Excel will have talks up soon! . We didn’t bleep the word for this episode since it’s becoming an essential part of tech criticism. . You know what you did. Miso Come Here (, ) shows puppy communication buttons. Mouser’s Empowering Innovation Together hub dives into all sorts of topics like renewable energy, energy-efficient...
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504: The Robot Was Expecting It
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It’s another episode with Elecia and Chris. This week they discuss people that have influenced their lives and careers, thinking about past career choices and regrets therein, identities, the Embedded Slack book club, and electronic projects. Chris is currently taking Dogbotic’s course which covers making an analog drum machine from components. We had Dogbotic founder Kirk Pearson on the show on . Elecia mentioned the book that the Embedded Slack #book-club channel is working through, Data Driven Science & Engineering Machine Learning, Dynamical Systems, and Control, which you can...
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503: The Tiniest Laptops
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Emily Lovell spoke with us about teaching how to contribute to open source, including her own experience creating the LilyTiny as a Master’s student and researching the impact as a PhD student. The LilyTiny work was done in conjunction with Leah Buechley (). See the paper or watch . (note this is different from the Center for Research in Open Source Software () that we spoke about with Carl Maltzahn (). Emily recommended the curriculum from . Emily’s other life is at and . She spoke on . Mouser’s Empowering Innovation Together hub dives into all sorts of topics...
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502: Chat, J'ai Peté!
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Chris and Elecia talk about Murderbot, LLMs (AI), bikes, control algorithms, and fancy math. The website with the ecology jobs is from with Meredith Palmer and Akiba.. The algorithm Elecia mentioned was from . The is a great introduction to control systems beyond PIDs There is also a book from the same folks (with matlab and some python code): . Finding bad AI interactions is too easy. that was discussed. . . Nordic Semiconductor has been the driving force for Bluetooth Low Energy MCUs and wireless SoCs since the early 2010s, and they offer solutions for low-power...
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501: Inside the Armpit of a Giraffe
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We spoke with ecologist Dr. Meredith Palmer and embedded engineer Akiba about lions, terror, and technology. Akiba works for on global conservation projects. We talked about their which Meredith uses to create experiments to map the landscape of fear in predator/prey relationships. While this may look like pranking animals with jump scares, well, there is real science being done. What would it look like to be smooched by a lioness? () Bird hears lion, decides to go over there () Checking the reflexes of some zebras and other critters () Hyena eating camara () These are...
info_outlineChristina Cyr spoke with us about building cell phones, entrepreneurship, social purpose corporations, awards, lithium recycling, and her interesting career path.
We talked about Christina’s Cyrcle Phone, the related kit from dTOOR, and her CES Innovation Award. We also mentioned Fairphone in the section about social purpose corporation.
There is a great paper from Nature about lithium-ion battery recycling: The evolution of lithium-ion battery recycling | Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Christina Cyr Personal Website
Wellfound (formerly AngelList) is a startup focused job site that may lead to non-fulltime positions. Crunchbase may help you figure out is the startup has capital (also Pitchbook thought that generally has a cost).
ADH connectors by JST and the SparkFun JST Battery Removal Tool
The quote was from Hemlock & Silver by T Kingfisher and it was a lovely fantasy mystery with an incredible first chapter.
Note: there are some audio artifacts on Christina’s track, we apologize as there was a technical issue that couldn’t be resolved. We’ve tried to clean it up with post-processing. There’s nothing wrong with your headphones :)
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