450: Swimming Through Nutritious Slurry

From embedded.fm 3 days ago in Podcasts

Kari Love joined us to talk about soft robotics, robots in religion, and squishiness.Kari co-authored Soft Robotics: A DIY Introduction to Squishy, Stretchy, and Flexible Robots. Her website is karimakes.com. She was previously on Embedded 189: The Squishiness FactorOne of the pneumatic drives that we mentioned was a Hackaday Prize...

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449: Soldering the Ukulele

From embedded.fm 2 weeks ago in Podcasts

Chris and Elecia talk about internetting your thing, motivating yourself with cheese, a pile of scrabble letters, an electric ouija board, and a supervillain origin story.Elecia will be on a Memfault Panel on June 1, 2023: From Concept to Launch:...

448: Little Squiggles All Around

From embedded.fm 1 month ago in Podcasts

Carl Bugeja makes actuators out of PCBs, puts them to work flapping origami bird wings (or moving robot rovers), and takes videos of the whole process. Oh, and get this, self-soldering circuits. First, origami: flap actuators video. Your source for the...

447: All Sorts of Weird Problems

From embedded.fm 1 month ago in Podcasts

We spoke with Chris Gammell about IoT, podcasting, relaxing, and learning. Chris works at Golioth.io. They have a neat blog that talks about reference designs, Zephyr RTOS, and making products.We talked about ESP chips which are made by Espressif. The...

446: World’s Best PB&J

From embedded.fm 2 months ago in Podcasts

Chris and Elecia talk about ChatGPT, conferences, online compilers, and Ardupilot.Compiler Explorer: godbolt.org (and function pointer example)Jupyter Notebooks with colab: colab.research.google.com/ (and one of Elecia’s origami pattern generator collabs)Sign up for the Embedded newsletter! Support us on Patreon.Conferences and happenings:Hackaday...

445: I Do Not Like Blinking

From embedded.fm 2 months ago in Podcasts

We spoke with Charlyn Gonda about making things glow, dealing with imposter syndrome, and using origami.Charlyn’s website is charlyn.codes, the projects we talked about are documented there. You can find her on Instagram (@chardane) and Mastodon (https://leds.social/@charlyn). Adafruit came up...

444: It Is If You Do It Wrong

From embedded.fm 3 months ago in Podcasts

Peter Griffin spoke with us about operant boxes, juggling many projects, getting into embedded systems, and bottle rockets. When we talked about 3D printing, Peter mentioned the Maker Muse Clearance and Tolerance 3D Printer Gauge.The book we mentioned was Hot Seat...

443: Vexing Machines

From embedded.fm 3 months ago in Podcasts

Chris and Elecia talk about photons, comets, patterns, other flying objects, and cameras.Chris uses PixInsight for processing and has an Ioptron Sky Tracker. Apologies to our southern hemisphere listeners because Polaris is not visible there. There are (of course) other...

442: I Do Like Musical Robots

From embedded.fm 4 months ago in Podcasts

Adafruit’s Liz Clark (BlitzCityDIY) spoke with us about MIDI, music, and tutorials. Liz’s Adafruit Tutorials includeMIDI for MakersCircuitPython Trombone Champ ControllerMini LED Matrix Audio Visualizer CircuitPython MIDI to CV SkullLiz sometimes hosts the Adafruit Show and Tell which is Wednesdays 7:30pm ET....

441: Ear Goobers

From embedded.fm 4 months ago in Podcasts

Chris and Elecia talk with Mark Smith (aka SmittyHalibut and N6MTS) about amateur radio, interconnect standards, and podcasting.Mark is a host of the Ham Radio Workbench podcast. His company is Halibut Electronics (electronics.halibut.com). He’s been working on Open Headset Interconnect...

440: Condemned to Being Perfect

From embedded.fm 5 months ago in Podcasts

Chris and Elecia talk to Jeff Gable and Luca Ingianni of the Agile Embedded podcast, discussing the definition of Agile, agreeing about some things, and disagreeing about others.Agile Embedded can be found in your usual podcast locations or get it...