80: Most of Us Are Human Beings

From embedded.fm 8 years ago in Podcasts

Bill Winterberg (@BillWinterberg) chatted with Elecia about leaving embedded engineering to become a financial planner then to being a technology adviser to other financial planners. Bill's company is FPPad. You can subscribe to his newsletter and watch Bits and Bytes, his video blog (or read it).Bill and Elecia met at LeapFrog. Bill was...

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445: I Do Not Like Blinking

From embedded.fm 2 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 3 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...

439: Ditches and Psychology

From embedded.fm 3 months ago in Podcasts

Chris and Elecia talk about house maintenance, blinking LEDs, paper engineering and more. Cutting Mobius Strips Video: Tadashi Tokieda cuts various combinations of loops and Mobius loops - with surprising results.festi.info/boxes.py generates boxes for laser cutting (or other SVG consuming device)....

438: There Is Nothing That Is True

From embedded.fm 3 months ago in Podcasts

We talked with John Taylor about his book, how to handle data, and the open/closed principle of software development.John’s book is Patterns in the Machine. It was mentioned on Embedded Artistry and is part of their Design for Change course.John...

437: Chirping With the Experts

From embedded.fm 4 months ago in Podcasts

Daniel Situnayake joined us to talk about AI, embedded systems, his new book on the previously mentioned topics, and writing technical books. Daniel’s book is AI at the Edge: Solving Real-World Problems with Embedded Machine Learning from O’Reilly Media.He is also...

436: 20 GOTO 10

From embedded.fm 4 months ago in Podcasts

Chris Svec joined us to talk about kids programming and how well the Joel Test has held up. Svec’s son (“The Kid”) developed an interest in programming by playing games. Most of his programming desires are around building games of...