Embedded

Embedded is the show for people who love gadgets. Making them, breaking them, and everything in between. Weekly interviews with engineers, educators, and enthusiasts. Find the show, blog, and more at embedded.fm.

235: Imagine That, Suckers! (Repeat) 09/16/2021

235: Imagine That, Suckers! (Repeat) We spoke to author Robin Sloan about his books and near-future science fiction. Robin wrote and . Find Robin on twitter as . Robin’s website is . Go there for some short stories, sign up for his newsletter and check out his new ‘zine (also at ). Oh! Don’t forget his blog, including a description of his neural net for and . Some books Robin suggested: by Witold Rybczynshi by Ann Leckie by Nicola Griffith /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/20503088

230: What the Hell Is Wrong with Unicorns? (Repeat) 09/09/2021

230: What the Hell Is Wrong with Unicorns? (Repeat) Sunshine Jones spoke with us about synthesizers, electronics, and philosophy. Find him on twitter and instagram at Sunshine’s music is most easily found at . His writing is at . We talked about Sunshine’s . That includes Ahmed, a track produced using only the SE-02. Sunshine also wrote about . The intro music is an excerpt from LELEK, released on Air Texture Vol. V. The exit music is Fall In Love Not In Line, released this year on vinyl only, TUOC01. See for more. Sunshine was the host of , a live podcast about music and life. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/20425844

386: Not Managing Robots 09/02/2021

386: Not Managing Robots Ingo Muschenetz spoke with us about software, management, podcasts, and interacting with people. Ingo’s Ingo works for Axway, they are hiring: Ingo keeps up with many podcasts, here are some of his favorites: Podcasts that talk about a complex topic, provide insight Throughline Planet Money Indicator Freakonomics Podcasts with interviews and discussions about lives and careers Conan OBrian Andy Richter Fresh Air Podcasts that don’t fit into a category other than “interesting”: 99% invisible 20000 Hz RadioLab Podcasts that Ingo didn’t mention but meant to: The Daily: Software Engineering Daily: The Bugle: Switched on Pop: Gastropod: /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/20353901

385: I Just Wanted an Industrial Arm 08/26/2021

385: I Just Wanted an Industrial Arm Jeremy Fielding spoke with us about mechanical engineering, robotics, robot operating system, YouTube, and solving problems. You can find all of Jeremy’s links on his main site: but here are a few short cuts: YouTube channel: Twitter: Instagram: Patreon: Jeremey had a neat way to go about solving a problem. He called it Dr. FARM: D Define the problem R Research other solutions, partial solutions, terminology F Function: what do I want it it do? A Appearance: what should it look like? R Risk: is anyone going to get hurt in manufacture and function? M Model: prototype the design and a version with /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/20277269

384: What's a Board File? 08/19/2021

384: What's a Board File? Liam Cadigan joined us to talk about founding a successful startup from a college capstone project. Liam is a co-founder of InspectAR and worked on the board files the system uses. Liam can be found on and . Check out . They are also on and on . /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/20201243

271: Shell Scripts for the Soul (Repeat) 08/13/2021

271: Shell Scripts for the Soul (Repeat) Alex Glow filled our heads with project ideas. Alex is the Resident Hardware Nerd at . Her page is and you might want to see and the . They have many sponsored contests including . You can find her on Twitter at . Lightning round led us to many possibles: It you were building an IoT stuffed animal, what would you use? and are what is inside Archimedes. If you were building a camera to monitor a 3d printer, what would you use? For her , Alex would use the Raspberry Pi based to monitor it. If you were going to a classroom of 2nd graders, what boards would you take? The BBC (based on ) or some ( and are on Amazon (those are Embedded affiliate links, btw). If you were going to make a car-sized fighting robot, what dev system would you use? initially designed Bunnie Huang There were more software and hardware kits to explore: Raspberry Pi For your amusement Alex gave a shout out to her first hackerspace is audio workstation and sequencer software. Alex recommends Women’s Audio Mission as a good way to learn audio production and recording if you are in the San Francisco area. There is an and Alex worked on a . Elecia is always willing to talk about and/or . She recommended the book by Kenn Amdahl. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/20132831

383: The Monkey’s Not Gonna Work 08/05/2021

383: The Monkey’s Not Gonna Work Mario Marchese (aka Mario the Maker Magician) spoke with us about robots performing magic, humans performing magic, and writing a book about making magic. We also covered art, making, learning, Sesame Street, performance, design, humor, Piff the Magic Dragon [sic], magic secrets, and gracefully handling technological failure. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/20051090

382: Playing In the Desert 07/29/2021

382: Playing In the Desert Leah Buechley spoke with us about the intersection of computer science and art. She is an associate professor in the computer science department of the University of New Mexico where she directs the Hand and Machine research group. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/19975040

381: Mass Sponge Migration 07/22/2021

381: Mass Sponge Migration Chris and Elecia discuss Blender, Make, TCP/IP, and listener questions (mostly about the podcast itself). /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/19901552

380: Trending Toward Telepathy 07/16/2021

380: Trending Toward Telepathy Adelle Lin spoke with us about wearables, art, playfulness, and getting together in virtual reality. Adelle’s website is touchtech.io. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/19827434

379: Monstrous Cable Corporation 07/08/2021

379: Monstrous Cable Corporation Tom Anderson joined us to talk about floating pins, ADCs, and teaching and learning things. Tom mentioned Horowitz and Hill’s Art of Electronics and the vintage books on TubeBooks.org. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/19751180

269: Ultra-Precise Death Ray (Repeat) 07/02/2021

269: Ultra-Precise Death Ray (Repeat) Alan Cohen wrote a great book about taking an idea and making it into a product. We spoke with him about the development process and the eleven deadly sins of product development. We did not talk about ultra-precise death rays. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/19687820

378: Pair-enting Programming 06/24/2021

378: Pair-enting Programming Nitya Narasimhan spoke with us about visualizing learning, visual storytelling, sketchnotes, and finding a job that satisfies. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/19597310

BONUS: Your Cat's Not Part of the Band 06/18/2021

BONUS: Your Cat's Not Part of the Band On this quick bonus episode, Elecia and Christopher chat about their various recent projects, some of which have just been released into the wild. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/19527794

377: Robot at the Park 06/17/2021

377: Robot at the Park Erin Kennedy spoke with us about learning new things, nice robots at the beach, lighting up fog voxels, and being part of the maker community. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/19517027

376: Left Half of My Brain Is Digital 06/10/2021

376: Left Half of My Brain Is Digital From his view in retirement, David Comer spoke with us about continuing to learn, staying engaged in an engineering career, and how the Galileo memory module worked. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/19435253

375: Hiding in Your Roomba 06/03/2021

375: Hiding in Your Roomba Brittany Postnikoff (@Straithe) spoke with us about scary robots, neat stickers, and contributing to open source projects. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/19348730

374: Getting Rafty 05/27/2021

374: Getting Rafty Tenaya Hurst Conklin discussed STEAM teaching tools and kits from RAFT. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/19268075

142: New and Improved Appendages (Repeat) 05/20/2021

142: New and Improved Appendages (Repeat) Sarah Petkus is a kinetic artist and some of her projects include a robot army (built your own from parts printed out or purchased at robot-army.com), Noodlefeet, and Carl (the flamingo of pendulum inversion). /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/19179923

373: Docker! Docker! Docker! 05/13/2021

373: Docker! Docker! Docker! It’s another Elecia and Chris episode and this time we cover handling hourly work when the task doesn’t neatly divide into hours, using Docker (and Conda and Virtualenv) for development, growing the podcast, overdoing conference talks, and trying to find a new laptop. Phew! /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/19099274

372: The Motivation of Creativity 05/06/2021

372: The Motivation of Creativity Anne Barela spoke with us about working as an engineer in the US Foreign Service and writing tutorials for Adafruit. Anne has also written two books: Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket and Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/19010747

371: All Martian Things Considered 04/29/2021

371: All Martian Things Considered Doug Ellison, Engineering Camera Team Lead at NASA’s JPL and Martian photographer, spoke with us about low power systems, cameras, clouds, and dust devils on Mars. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/18917102

370: This Is the Whey 04/22/2021

370: This Is the Whey Alvaro Prieto spoke with us about cheese, making, work, the reverse engineering podcast, weather, and motivation. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/18827672

369: More Pirate Jokes 04/15/2021

369: More Pirate Jokes Chris and Elecia talk with each other about contracting, architecture, origami research, Digilent’s new oscilloscope, TensorFlow, map files, conference talks, art and the upcoming 12AX7 album. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/18743345

250: Yolo Snarf (Repeat) 04/08/2021

250: Yolo Snarf (Repeat) Finally! An episode with version control! And D&D! Chris Svec joins us to discuss why version control is critical to professional software development and what the most important concepts are. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/18658475

368: Amazing That Any of This Works 04/01/2021

368: Amazing That Any of This Works Technical book author Al Sweigart spoke with us about getting better at Python programming. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/18574883

367: Data of Our Lives 03/25/2021

367: Data of Our Lives Dr. Ayanna Howard spoke with us about sex, race, and robots. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/18472340

366: All the Wrong Tools 03/18/2021

366: All the Wrong Tools Laurel Cummings teaches people how to build what is required with the material on hand. We talked with her about how to engineer survival solutions on-the-fly, often while performing disaster relief. Also: what could be made with chewing gum and paper clips. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/18381845

365: Barbed Wire Fence and Great WiFi 03/12/2021

365: Barbed Wire Fence and Great WiFi Cy Keener spoke with us about sensors, Arduinos, ice, and the crossover between art and science. /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/18290006

364: All the Abstractions 03/05/2021

364: All the Abstractions Jacob Beningo spoke with us about embedded systems, conference talks, writing articles and books, and best practices in development /episode/index/show/makingembeddedsystems/id/18192983

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