Professor Carlotta Berry from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology joined us to talk about robotics, PID tuning, engineering education, ethics, her book, and standing up in front of a classroom.Carlotta’s book is Mobile Robotics for Multidisciplinary Study (Synthesis Lectures on Control...

Colin O’Flynn (@colinoflynn) spoke with us about security research, power analysis, and hotdogs.Colin’s company is NewAE and you can see his Introduction to Side-Channel Power Analysis video as an intro to his training course. Or you can buy your own...

Debra Ansell joined us to talk about making light up accessories, patenting ideas, and sharing projects.Debra’s project website is geekmomprojects.com, she’s @geekmomprojects on Twitter and Instagram. Her github repo uses the same ID: github.com/geekmomprojects/. We talked about using coin cell batteries...

Chris and Elecia chat about their current projects and ideas.Elecia is teaching Making Embedded Systems at Classpert. The course is based on her book with lectures to extend the information, quizzes, homework, mentors, synchronous classes, and a final project. Starting...

Tyler Hoffman joined us to discuss the issues associated with embedded devices at consumer scale. We talked about firmware update, device management, and remote diagnostics for millions of devices.Tyler is a co-founder at Memfault (memfault.com), a company that works on...

Alpenglow’s Carrie Sundra spoke with us about frivolous circuits, solder live streaming, and yarn.Alpenglow Industries sells frivolous circuits, some pre-built (like FUnicorn) and some are buildables such as the cute but evil heart soldering kits called PS-I Hate You.Carrie’s YouTube...

Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) shared truly weird responses from AIs. Her website is AIWeirdness.com where you can find machine-learning-generated ideas for paint colors, ice cream, and cocktails (and many other things). We never said they were good ideas.Janelle’s FAQ will help...

Alan Cohen joined us to talk about brain waves, medical product development, open source, and helpful engineering.Alan has been working on VolksEEG (volkseeg.org, github.com/VolksEEG/VolksEEG). This is an EEG (wiki Electroencephalography) which detects brain waves. It uses the TI ADS1299 EEG...

Chris and Elecia discuss civic duties, the CAN bus, fulfilling Kickstarter orders, and the answers to a series of questions about embedded systems.Elecia was recently introduced to TRIZ inventive principles (wikipedia page) and started reading And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared:...

We spoke to author Robin Sloan about his books and near-future science fiction.Robin wrote Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore and Sourdough.Find Robin on twitter as @robin_____sloan. Robin’s website is robinsloan.com. Go there for some short stories, sign up for his...

Sunshine Jones spoke with us about synthesizers, electronics, and philosophy.Find him on twitter @Sunshine_Jones and instagram at sunshine_jones_Sunshine’s music is most easily found at TheUrgencyOfChange.com. His writing is at Sunshine-Jones.com.We talked about Sunshine’s User’s Guide to the Roland SE-02. That...

Ingo Muschenetz spoke with us about software, management, podcasts, and interacting with people. Ingo’s LinkedIn pageIngo works for Axway, they are hiring: Axway CareersIngo keeps up with many podcasts, here are some of his favorites:Podcasts that talk about a complex topic,...

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: jeremyfielding.com but here are a few short cuts: YouTube channel: Jeremy FieldingTwitter: @jeremy_fieldingInstagram: @jeremy_fieldingPatreon:...

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 LinkedIn and Twitter.Check out InspectAR....

Alex Glow filled our heads with project ideas.Alex is the Resident Hardware Nerd at Hackster.io. Her page is glowascii and you might want to see Archimedes the AI robot owl and the Hardware 101 channel. They have many sponsored contests...

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],...

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.Her website is...

Chris (@stoneymonster) and Elecia (@logicalelegance) discuss Blender, Make, TCP/IP, and listener questions (mostly about the podcast itself).Lightweight IP: an open source TCP/IP stack for embedded systemsLook for Lazy Tutorials for Blender in Ian Hubert’s YouTube Channel or if you want...

Adelle Lin (@Adellelin) spoke with us about wearables, art, playfulness, and getting together in virtual reality. Adelle’s website is touchtech.io.For some VR get togethers, Adelle recommends AltSpace (altvr.com) and Mozilla Hubs (hubs.mozilla.com). Some other remote get togethers:Virtual Burning Man (August...

Tom Anderson (@tomacorp) 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.Tom wrote about  JFETs and vacuum tubes and Power Supply Filter...

Alan Cohen (@proto2product) 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...

Nitya Narasimhan (@nitya) spoke with us about visualizing learning, visual storytelling, sketchnotes, and finding a job that satisfies.Nitya’s sketchnotes are all available on the @sketchthedocs Twitter stream that includes links to the hi-res drawing, a time-lapse of the drawing being...

On this quick bonus episode, Elecia and Christopher chat about their various recent projects, some of which have just been released into the wild.Christopher’s band 12AX7 just launched their album Kickstarter, which was selected as one of Kickstarter’s "Projects We...

Erin Kennedy (@RobotGrrl) spoke with us about learning new things, nice robots at the beach, lighting up fog voxels, and being part of the maker community.Erin’s Robot Missions (@RobotMissions) was founded to develop robots to clean shorelines of plastic. Her...

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.