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I am Elecia White alongside Christopher White. We’re here to chat about the interests, careers, and lives of engineers, artists, educators and makers. Our diverse guest list includes names you may have heard and engineers working quietly in the trenches. Either way, they are knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and inspiring. We’d love to share our enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM).
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514: Just Turn Off All the Computers
11/14/2025
514: Just Turn Off All the Computers
Philip Koopman joined us to talk about embedded systems becoming embodied and intelligent. We focus on the safety considerations of making an intelligent and embodied device. Phil’s new book is . It uses robotaxis as an example as it discusses safety, security, human/computer interface, AI, and a bit of legal theory for tort negligence. If you’d like a taster, Phil gave a wonderful summary in his video: This new book is intended for a wider (less devotedly technical) audience than his book . Phil was last on the show in episode where we spoke about his book Thank you! This episode is sponsored by you, our listeners! If you’d like to become members and get ad-free episodes as well as bonus shows, sign up at or Thanks for listening.
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513: I’m Sorry You Learned Something
10/30/2025
513: I’m Sorry You Learned Something
Jason Turner of C++ Weekly and Empty Crate spoke with us about the joy of puzzles, the changing directions of an interesting career, and the C++ programming language. I mean, of course we talked about C++. But only a little. Jason recently published , a book of puzzles for the logically minded. It teaches programming concepts as engaging puzzles: recursion, binary, assembly, Lisp, regular expressions. You may not know what you are learning but you’ll likely find you know a lot more about how computers work afterward. For the puzzles, paper is better than electronic. But you can also get the electronic version on (which is better if you like to get lost in Wikipedia links). This is not Jason’s first puzzle book, he’s made them for C++ Object Lifetime and Copy and Reference (see his and author page for other books as well). If you want to catch up on C++, check out . Note the playlists are useful if you are looking for a deep dive on a particular topic. If you want to get more out of C++ in your organization, Jason’s consulting company is . His contact page is there as well (or look for lefticus on most social media platforms). If you’re interested in how 3D printing is changing design engineering, Mouser Electronics has some great resources to check out. Their Empowering Innovation Together platform is taking a deep dive into additive manufacturing—covering smarter production, faster prototyping, and breakthrough materials that move ideas beyond prototypes into real-world products. You’ll find podcasts, expert articles, and videos that keep you informed and inspired. Sound like your thing? Head to and explore.
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512: What if I Didn’t Stop?
10/16/2025
512: What if I Didn’t Stop?
Katherine “Smalls” Connell spoke with us about making thin and flexible circuits, making stretchable electronics, and running a successful Kickstarter. Katherine’s Kickstarter: . Katherine shares her makes, describing her build process for companion robots and other projects. You can find her as The Small Wonder on and . She often goes by Smalls on other social media. We talked about a paper on making stretchable circuits: . If you’re interested in how 3D printing is changing design engineering, Mouser Electronics has some great resources to check out. Their Empowering Innovation Together platform is taking a deep dive into additive manufacturing—covering smarter production, faster prototyping, and breakthrough materials that move ideas beyond prototypes into real-world products. You’ll find podcasts, expert articles, and videos that keep you informed and inspired. Sound like your thing? Head to and explore.
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511: Forty Trillion Divides
10/02/2025
511: Forty Trillion Divides
Chris and Elecia talk about the show overflowing to another bit, fight over vim vs nano, consider awards, discuss writing (and self-motivation), consider linear algebra on AI cores, encourage remote device quality assurance, describe design documentation, review timer multipliers, and consider changing chip vendors. Support the show and get goodies: and book (currently on chapter 8 and working through the ) Not mentioned but related to the Cozy Science announcement: Elecia found , a 10-episode podcast that is nicely soothing and science. If you’re interested in how 3D printing is changing design engineering, Mouser Electronics has some great resources to check out. Their Empowering Innovation Together platform is taking a deep dive into additive manufacturing—covering smarter production, faster prototyping, and breakthrough materials that move ideas beyond prototypes into real-world products. You’ll find podcasts, expert articles, and videos that keep you informed and inspired. Sound like your thing? Head to and explore.
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510: The Secret Chip
09/19/2025
510: The Secret Chip
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 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 :) If you’re interested in how 3D printing is changing design engineering, Mouser Electronics has some great resources to check out. Their Empowering Innovation Together platform is taking a deep dive into additive manufacturing—covering smarter production, faster prototyping, and breakthrough materials that move ideas beyond prototypes into real-world products. You’ll find podcasts, expert articles, and videos that keep you informed and inspired. Sound like your thing? Head to and explore.
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509: Swarmed by Engineers
09/05/2025
509: Swarmed by Engineers
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. Mouser Electronics has a dedicated Empowering Innovation Together hub that covers the latest breakthroughs in tech. Their new series explores how AI is reshaping engineering—from design automation to rapid prototyping and predictive maintenance. You’ll find insightful articles, podcasts, and videos that showcase real-world applications across industries. If you’re ready to see how AI is powering the next generation of engineering, head over to .
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508: Descartes' Demon
08/21/2025
508: Descartes' Demon
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 reshaping engineering—from design automation to rapid prototyping and predictive maintenance. You’ll find insightful articles, podcasts, and videos that showcase real-world applications across industries. If you’re ready to see how AI is powering the next generation of engineering, head over to .
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507: Turn Our Data Into Predators
08/07/2025
507: Turn Our Data Into Predators
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 software (). Chris is taking a course from Dogbotic. See . We interviewed Kirk Pearson from Dogbotic on . Mouser Electronics has a dedicated Empowering Innovation Together hub that covers the latest breakthroughs in tech. Their new series explores how AI is reshaping engineering—from design automation to rapid prototyping and predictive maintenance. You’ll find insightful articles, podcasts, and videos that showcase real-world applications across industries. If you’re ready to see how AI is powering the next generation of engineering, head over to .
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506: How Do I Fit a Whale Into an Apartment Building?
07/25/2025
506: How Do I Fit a Whale Into an Apartment Building?
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 latest breakthroughs in tech. Their new series explores how AI is reshaping engineering—from design automation to rapid prototyping and predictive maintenance. You’ll find insightful articles, podcasts, and videos that showcase real-world applications across industries. If you’re ready to see how AI is powering the next generation of engineering, head over to .
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505: Potato in a Number Field
07/10/2025
505: Potato in a Number Field
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 systems, and sustainable design. Whether you’re looking for the latest in clean tech trends or just need some inspiration, you’ll find articles, videos, and podcasts all geared toward engineers who want to make a difference. Head over to content.
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504: The Robot Was Expecting It
06/27/2025
504: The Robot Was Expecting It
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 find for free at along with code and examples. The group is two sessions in but if you want to join late, join the Slack group via or . You can subscribe to the newsletter .
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503: The Tiniest Laptops
06/13/2025
503: The Tiniest Laptops
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 like renewable energy, energy-efficient systems, and sustainable design. Whether you’re looking for the latest in clean tech trends or just need some inspiration, you’ll find articles, videos, and podcasts all geared toward engineers who want to make a difference. Head over to content.
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502: Chat, J'ai Peté!
06/03/2025
502: Chat, J'ai Peté!
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 Wi-Fi and global Cellular IoT as well. If you plan on developing robust and battery-operated applications, their hardware, software, tools, and services. On you’ll find Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular IoT courses, and the Nordic DevZone community covers technical questions: . Congratulations to the giveaway winners!
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501: Inside the Armpit of a Giraffe
05/15/2025
501: Inside the Armpit of a Giraffe
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 lots of fun to watch and you can find the freshest ones and help out science by categorizing some at . Or skip to using the data on (). Check out for more github and Data Dryad links to data and science. If you want to get involved, has discussions around conservation technology. There is also a Elecia mentioned , an author who writes a lot about biology and ecology. And now, If you’re interested in the intersection of neuroscience and engineering, you might want to check out what Mouser Electronics is doing with Brain-Computer Interfaces. It’s all about how you can control machines with your mind, and it’s one of the coolest areas of innovation right now. Mouser’s Empowering Innovation Together site has great content on BCIs, from videos to in-depth articles and podcasts that break down the tech. If this piques your curiosity, head over to and explore what’s happening with BCI and other exciting developments in the world of design and engineering.
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500: Nerding Out About the Ducks
05/02/2025
500: Nerding Out About the Ducks
Komathi Sundaram spoke with us about her enthusiasm for tests and test automation. We talked about the different joys of testing vs. development, setting up CI servers, and different kinds of tests including unit, hardware-in-the-loop, and simulation. It may sound dry but we had a lot of fun. Komathi’s site is which hosts her blog as well as contact info. She will be speaking on . 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 Wi-Fi and global Cellular IoT as well. If you plan on developing robust and battery-operated applications, their hardware, software, tools, and services. On you’ll find Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular IoT courses, and the Nordic DevZone community covers technical questions: . Oh, and don’t forget to enter Nordic Semiconductor’s giveaway contest! Just fill out the and you're in the running. Good luck!
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499: This Is Your Problem
04/17/2025
499: This Is Your Problem
We spoke with Janet Hansen about the world of professional costumery (with electronics) and becoming an artist. Janet’s business is where you can find custom illuminated clothing as well as Janet’s ready-made art. Janet’s personal site is which is more focused on her artistic pursuits. Janet mentioned Seeed’s . We talked about Janet’s light up pillow with Debra Ansell on . If you’re interested in the intersection of neuroscience and engineering, you might want to check out what Mouser Electronics is doing with Brain-Computer Interfaces. It’s all about how you can control machines with your mind, and it’s one of the coolest areas of innovation right now. Mouser’s Empowering Innovation Together site has great content on BCIs, from videos to in-depth articles and podcasts that break down the tech. If this piques your curiosity, head over to and explore what’s happening with BCI and other exciting developments in the world of design and engineering.
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498: To Consume Stickers
04/04/2025
498: To Consume Stickers
At the end of this week’s show, Elecia reads a Winnie the Pooh poem as Cookie Monster death metal. Before that, Chris and Elecia chat about mental health, journaling, personal projects, and listener questions. Please sign up for the ! You can also sign up for the . Maybe now with job postings? Elecia’s journaling notebook is (which is where she gets her nice pens and some of her stickers and washi tape). From discussing some listener messages, we mentioned: Matt Keeter’s talk on debuggability in production where you don’t have access to the system that is faulting ( and ) Letter boards (in the Adirondacks), simulator is a great place to get more embedded experience without buying all the kits. Christopher has said that there will not, definitely not, under any circumstances, be a whole death metal album of Winnie the Pooh poems. Elecia is practicing anyway. 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 Wi-Fi and global Cellular IoT as well. If you plan on developing robust and battery-operated applications, their hardware, software, tools, and services. On you’ll find Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular IoT courses, and the Nordic DevZone community covers technical questions: . Oh, and don’t forget to enter Nordic Semiconductor’s giveaway contest! Just fill out the and you're in the running. Good luck!
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497: Everyone Likes Tiny
03/20/2025
497: Everyone Likes Tiny
OpenMV has a new Kickstarter so CEO Kwabena Agyeman chatted with us about more powerful (and smaller!) programmable cameras. See ’s site for their existing cameras. See for the super powerful N6 and the ridiculously small AE3. Note that OpenMV still is committed to open source. See their if you want to know more. Edge AI is the idea of putting intelligence in the devices (instead of in the cloud). There is an advocacy and education foundation called . This organization was formerly the TinyML Foundation. and are companies that aid in creating and training AI models that can be put on devices. ARM talks about their (and ).
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496: Beauty, Elegance, Consistency
03/06/2025
496: Beauty, Elegance, Consistency
Professor Shimon Schocken spoke with us about teaching computer science from NAND logic gates to arithmetic units, micro assembly, virtual machines, compilers, operating systems, and the Tetris games. We also talk about good design, good interfaces, and good tests. Shimon’s book is and the website with the course lecture notes, slides, videos, simulators, and everything you need is . Shimon mentioned his work with teaching math, that is . You can find out more about Shimon’s other projects on his site (including his fascinating TED talk: ). Shimon’s co-author is Noam Nisan who also wrote about (look, anytime we can bring up , we will). We talked about Tim Bell’s CS Unplugged, teaching computer science concepts without a computer. It comes in and flavors. Memfault is a leading embedded device observability platform that empowers teams to build better IoT products, faster. Its off-the-shelf solution is specifically designed for bandwidth-constrained devices, offering device performance and product analytics, debugging, and over-the-air capabilities. Trusted by leading brands such as Bose, Lyft, Logitech, Panasonic, and Augury, Memfault improves the reliability of devices across consumer electronics and mission-critical industries such as access control, point of sale, energy, and healthcare. To learn more, visit .
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495: Shortcut the Difficulties of Reality
02/21/2025
495: Shortcut the Difficulties of Reality
Professor Cindy Harnett spoke to us about new and different sensors and actuators, primarily designed for soft robotics and fabricated with relatively low cost materials. Cindy is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the where she runs the . The papers we discussed are . You can find a longer list of Cindy’s papers on . The is especially interesting. 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 Wi-Fi and global Cellular IoT as well. If you plan on developing robust and battery-operated applications, their hardware, software, tools, and services. On you’ll find Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular IoT courses, and the Nordic DevZone community covers technical questions: . Oh, and don’t forget to enter Nordic Semiconductor’s giveaway contest! Just fill out the and you're in the running. Good luck!
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494: All Tech Is Wearable
02/07/2025
494: All Tech Is Wearable
Debra Ansell joined us to talk about finding friends and exchanging neat gifts, accidentally tricking people into making unmanufacutable boards, and happy, blinking lights. Debra is usually known by the moniker GeekMomProjects (also her website is ). She has been writing for . Debra won one of the SuperCon badge so her poseable will be available at SuperCon Europe. Some other things we mentioned: Martin Oehler is Maketvee on and Janet Hansen is on and has an incredible wearables website. #makergiftexchange on your favorite social media platform And some upcoming events that promise to have lots of LEDs: (Jun ‘25) (Feb ‘25) Memfault is a leading embedded device observability platform that empowers teams to build better IoT products, faster. Its off-the-shelf solution is specifically designed for bandwidth-constrained devices, offering device performance and product analytics, debugging, and over-the-air capabilities. Trusted by leading brands such as Bose, Lyft, Logitech, Panasonic, and Augury, Memfault improves the reliability of devices across consumer electronics and mission-critical industries such as access control, point of sale, energy, and healthcare. To learn more, visit .
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493: Put the Peeps in the Chili Pot
01/24/2025
493: Put the Peeps in the Chili Pot
Elecia and Chris talk with each other about the state of Chris’ mind, what makes an embedded developer stand out, “LEGO block” based design, unit tests, and astronomy. Whew! Elecia was recently on the Changelog podcast, talking about the . Chris has been working with Micropython (we talked with Damien George about Micropython on ). He’s using a Pyboard to start, but is looking to move on to from Sparkfun. Wikipedia . Elecia talked about her experience using to drive unit tests. She also talked about some facts from . Chris’ telescope is the . There’s also a smaller now which has a wider field-of-view. (Chris and Elecia both thoroughly enjoyed The Good Place, the TV show this is taken from.) 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 Wi-Fi and global Cellular IoT as well. If you plan on developing robust and battery-operated applications, their hardware, software, tools, and services. On you’ll find Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular IoT courses, and the Nordic DevZone community covers technical questions: . Oh, and don’t forget to enter Nordic Semiconductor’s giveaway contest! Just fill out the and you're in the running. Good luck! Here’s one of the astrophotos Chris has taken: The Horsehead and Flame nebulae in Orion taken from a Seestar S50
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492: Octopus Army
12/27/2024
492: Octopus Army
Nathan Jones chatted with us about his proposal for a computer architecture book based on a 4-bit computer. Nathan found the 4-bit computer in the and was amazed by some of the ideas that folks implemented (see SuperCon ). Nathan , highlighting some of his ideas for a book. If you’d like to try your hand at the badge, find it on Nathan’s . Nathan also spoke recently at the Embedded Online Conference (, , and ) and the Teardown Conference ( and ). If you have an idea you’d like to propose, check out O’Reilly’s . While you may not go with them, the proposal is a good place to get all of your ideas down. We mentioned a few other computer architecture books as competitors for Nathan’s proposed book: by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson by Yale N. Patt and Sanjay J. Patel , by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken (MIT Press) with supporting material and simulator on . Nathan also did a survey of the Embedded Slack community. You can gain access by becoming a .
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491: Oscillators Oscillating Other Oscillators
12/13/2024
491: Oscillators Oscillating Other Oscillators
Chris and Elecia spoke with Kirk Pearson about running audio-electronic-art workshops, interesting sounds, and their book Find the book and a whole kit of parts on the . A few clicks from there you can find the (don’t forget the coupon in the show audio). We also mentioned The Thing (), Elliot Williams’ writing on CMOS synthesizers () and the videos of Sebastian Tomczak (YouTube: ). Memfault is a leading embedded device observability platform that empowers teams to build better IoT products, faster. Its off-the-shelf solution is specifically designed for bandwidth-constrained devices, offering device performance and product analytics, debugging, and over-the-air capabilities. Trusted by leading brands such as Bose, Lyft, Logitech, Panasonic, and Augury, Memfault improves the reliability of devices across consumer electronics and mission-critical industries such as access control, point of sale, energy, and healthcare. To learn more, visit .
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490: Wait Until Physics Has Happened
11/28/2024
490: Wait Until Physics Has Happened
Nikolaus Correll spoke with us about robots, teaching robotics, and writing books about robots. Nikolaus is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado, see his (or his ). We discussed Nikolaus’ (or ). These go along with his (which can be compiled from source ). Masters of Computer Science online via and . While the is no longer in production, Nikolaus also mentioned the . 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 Wi-Fi and global Cellular IoT as well. If you plan on developing robust and battery-operated applications, their hardware, software, tools, and services. On you’ll find Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular IoT courses, and the Nordic DevZone community covers technical questions: . Oh, and don’t forget to enter Nordic Semiconductor’s giveaway contest! Just fill out the and you're in the running. Good luck!
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489: Constructive Cat
11/16/2024
489: Constructive Cat
Chris and Elecia discuss her origami art show, ponder PRs for solo developers, attempt to explain GDB debugging, and make a to-do list for getting rid of Kanga. Elecia is having an Origami Octopus Garden art show at the Aptos Public Library for the month of November, 2024. The postcard advertisement is below. There are more pictures on her Instagram (). The python tessellation generator is . Memfault’s Interrupt post is a much more considered explanation of GDB and includes pointers to other resources (including using Python with GDB). Memfault is a leading embedded device observability platform that empowers teams to build better IoT products, faster. Its off-the-shelf solution is specifically designed for bandwidth-constrained devices, offering device performance and product analytics, debugging, and over-the-air capabilities. Trusted by leading brands such as Bose, Lyft, Logitech, Panasonic, and Augury, Memfault improves the reliability of devices across consumer electronics and mission-critical industries such as access control, point of sale, energy, and healthcare. To learn more, visit .
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488: Two Slices of Complimentary Bread
10/31/2024
488: Two Slices of Complimentary Bread
Adrienne Braganza Tacke spoke with us about her book Looks Good To Me: Constructive Code Reviews. It is about how to make code reviews more useful, effective, and congenial. Adrienne’s book is available now as an or a paper copy later in the year (). Check out the example t from Appendix A. Adrienne’s personal website is .
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487: Focus on Fizzing
10/17/2024
487: Focus on Fizzing
Chris and Elecia chat about simulated robots, portents in the sky, the futility of making plans, and grad school. A problem with mics led us to delay the show with Shimon Schoken from (co-author of Elements of ). Look for that later in the year. Elecia is playing with , a robotics physics simulator. Simpler than ROS’s Gazebo, it also can run in an online mode where you can run it on a browser, . Chris talked about processing his photos of Comet using and . Then we talked about grad school (including ). Tony sent in this insect detector: . If you want links like this or de facto letters to the editor, please sign up for the . Photo of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), taken from Seacliff Beach in Aptos, CA by Chris White
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486: A Nice Rainbow Dream
10/03/2024
486: A Nice Rainbow Dream
Antoine van Gelder spoke to us about making digital musical instruments, USB, and FPGAs. Antoine works for , specifically on the USB protocol analysis tool that can be used in conjunction with Python and to act as a new USB device. While bonding over was a given, Antoine also mentioned which Elecia countered with , the book that covers the NAND2Tetris material. Memfault is a leading embedded device observability platform that empowers teams to build better IoT products, faster. Its off-the-shelf solution is specifically designed for bandwidth-constrained devices, offering device performance and product analytics, debugging, and over-the-air capabilities. Trusted by leading brands such as Bose, Lyft, Logitech, Panasonic, and Augury, Memfault improves the reliability of devices across consumer electronics and mission-critical industries such as access control, point of sale, energy, and healthcare. To learn more, visit .
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485: Conversation Is a Kind of Music
09/20/2024
485: Conversation Is a Kind of Music
Alan Blackwell spoke with us about the lurking dangers of large language models, the magical nature of artificial intelligence, and the future of interacting with computers. Alan is the author of which you can read in its pre-book form here: Alan’s day job is as a Professor of Interdisciplinary Design in the Cambridge University department of Computer Science and Technology. See his research interests on . (Also, given as homework in the newsletter, we didn’t directly discuss Jo Walton’s '', a playful history of automated text generation, written from a perspective in the year 2070.)
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