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Matt Godbolt ( @mattgodbolt ) spoke with us about settling arguments with Compiler Explorer . March Micro Madness is here! Compiler Explorer comes in different flavors: https://rust.godbolt.org/ https://d.godbolt.org/ https://go.godbolt.org/ https://gcc.godbolt.org/ You can see the beta version by putting a beta on the end:   https://gcc.godbolt.org/beta/ This a fully open source project. You can...

Kate Stewart (@_kate_stewart) of the Linux Foundation spoke with us about the Zephyr operating system (@ZephyrIoT) . Some Zephyr docs: Getting Started Guide Supported boards Two projects using Zephyr: Open Artificial Pancreas System ( openaps.org ) Zephyr on a Hearing Aid talk at Embedded Linux Conference 2019

Christopher (@stoneymonster) and Elecia (@logicalelegance) discuss listener questions about USB, thesis projects, prototype iterations, motivation, and processor cores.  Chris has been using audiomovers.com to mix audio remotely in real time.

Daniel Situnayake (@dansitu) spoke with us about machine learning on microcontrollers. Dan is the author of TinyML: Machine Learning with TensorFlow Lite on Arduino and Ultra-Low-Power Microcontrollers . You can read the first several chapters at tinymlbook.com .  TinyML is a part of TensorFlow Lite. See the microcontroller getting started guide . Dan works for Edge Impulse (@EdgeImpulse) which is...

Erin Talvitie of Harvey Mudd College spoke with us about machine learning, hallucinating data, and making good decisions based on imperfect predictions. Paper we discussed: Self-Correcting Models for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Erin's grant: Using Imperfect Predictions to Make Good Decisions For a reinforcement learning book, Erin suggests Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Richard...

John Saunders (@NYCCNC) spoke with us about building a Johnny Five robot on his NYC CNC YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/saunixcomp) .  You can find all of the Johnny Five build videos on a playlist or check out the NYC CNC page . As mentioned, Input Inc did a lot of the preliminary work. John recommends books: How to Win Friends and Influence People The E-Myth Revisited John is also...

Adam Wolf (@adamwwolf) of Wayne and Layne (www.wayneandlayne.com) spoke with us about making kits, museum exhibit engineering, working on KiCad, and extraterrestrial art philosophy. Adam has a personal blog on www.feelslikeburning.com/blog/ as well as a website adamwolf.org . Adam co-wrote Make: Lego and Arduino Projects If you want to know how to contribute to KiCad libraries, check out their ins...

Professor Ayanna Howard of Georgia Tech joins us to talk about robotics including how androids interact with humans.  Some of her favorite robot include the Darwin , the Nao , and, for home-hacking, the Darwin Mini . Ayanna has a profile on EngineerGirl.org , a site that lets young women ask questions of women in the engineering profession. Elecia has been working on a typing robot named Ty, docum...

Carmen Parisi spoke with us about changing jobs from a semiconductor specialist at TI to an electrical engineering generalist at Wasatch Photonics.  Carmen was previously on Embedded 216: Bavarian Folk Metal and formerly was the host of  The Engineering Commons podcast  Carmen works at Wasatch Photonics making Ramen Spectrometers . Spudger

Ramiro Montes De Oca spoke with us about modular electronics, chiplets, and his company aThing.io athing.io Chiplets Project Tinkertoy (movie) is a 1953 US Navy project on automated manufacturing of modular electronics. Ramiro mentioned his accelerator: CoFoundersLab Accelerator

Jason Derleth of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program spoke with us about what it takes to win a NIAC award. NIAC program homepage   Some of the accepted NIAC studies Key dates : Note: Solicitations open in June 2020!  Apply to NIAC A guide for NSPIRES, the payment system   We first heard about NIAC talking to Ariel Waldman. Her niacfellows.org site has some advice and encouragement for a...

Chris Gammell (@Chris_Gammell) of The Amp Hour and Contextual Electronics joined Christopher and Elecia to talk about firmware, learning, and books. Chris is the host of The Amp Hour , a podcast about electronics and electrical engineering. Chris is also the founder of Contextual Electronics , where you can go to learn how to create electronics. Chris has a long running blog called Analog Life, fo...

Chris (@stoneymonster) and Elecia (@logicalelegance) chat about the year 2038, their projects, their new finds, and future shows. The year 2038 problem is real. Elecia read some of this tweet thread about it. Single file libraries list on github: ( https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs ), including the STB image handling library Chris was originally looking for. Chris is working on a MIDI p...

Dennis Jackson spoke with us about making the career shift from software to embedded. Dennis buys James Grenning's Test Driven Development in Embedded C for his new hires and often recommends Elecia's Making Embedded Systems . His tip that everyone should know was "Learn make!" and he has a reference for that: Why Use Make . He suggested Joel Spolsky's reading lists from Joel On Software , even th...

Darryl Yong (@dyong) is a mathematics professor at Harvey Mudd College (and former classmate of ours, also at HMC). He is working with HMC's Clinic Program , putting real industry projects in front of teams of college students. He's also teaching number theory to prison inmates and helping teachers in the chronically underfunded Los Angeles Unified School District. Darryl writes about his career i...

We were joined in the studio by the Evil Mad Scientists Lenore Edman ( @1lenore ) and Windell Oskay ( @oskay ). Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories ( @EMSL ) produces the disintegrated 555 Timer kit and 741 Op-Amp  kit . These were made in conjunction with Eric Schlaepfer, who also created the Monster 6502 .  EMSL also makes the Eggbot kit and AxiDraw not-kit (and mini-kit ). For a history of the pen...

Professor Barbara Liskov spoke with us about the Liskov substitution principle , data abstraction, software crisis , and winning a Turing Award . See Professor Liskov's page at MIT , including her incredible CV .

Chris and Elecia talk with each other about non-work activities including music, office rearrangement, and origami. The Solarbotics Squid Hunting CearouSol Kit Samson S-patch plus 48-Point Balanced Patchbay Waldorf Blofeld Synthesizer EarthQuaker Devices Rainbow Machine V2 Polyphonic Pitch-shifting Modulator Pedal (with Magic knob) Artelino is a Japanese print auction house

Mohit Bhoite ( @MohitBhoite ) makes functional electronic sculptures from components and brass wire. We spoke with him on the hows and whys of making art. Mohit's sculptures , including the Tie Fighter . More on his instagram: mohitbhoite Jiri Prause has a wonderful tutorial on how to make simpler freeform electronics on Instructables . Peter Vogel is another artist making phenomenal freeform elec...

Robert J. Lang spoke with us about origami, art, math, and lasers. Robert has many origami books, here is a subset: Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art (the one we talked about most, has the hummingbird crease pattern) Twists, Tilings, and Tessellations: Mathematical Methods for Geometric Origami (his new one, a textbook!) Origami in Action: Paper Toys That Fly, Flap, G...

Chris and Elecia talked through how security holes can get explored on a fictional product. Thanks to an Embedded listener who enjoyed hearing from Jacob Martinez about helping young adults have access to technology, we have a grant to match donations to DigitalNEST up to $2500. Donate here: give.digitalnest.org/embeddedfm We talked through OWASP Top 10 Embedded Application Best Practices but OWAS...

Phoenix Perry ( @phoenixperry ) spoke with us about physical games. Phoenix is CTO of DoItKits ( @DoItKits ).   More about Phoenix: Bot Party Her site: PhoenixPerry.com She enjoyed Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin Physical games are sometimes called Alt Ctrl such as at the Alt Ctrl Game Jam .  Phoenix co-founded Code Liberation with Catt Small , Nina Freeman , and Jane Friedhoff . "Code Liberation catal...

Rick Altherr ( @kc8apf ) spoke with us about firmware security and mentoring. Rick is a security researcher at Eclypsium . His personal website is kc8apf.net . Rick's deeply technical dive into reverse engineering car ECUs and FPGA bitstreams was on the Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast, episode 24 . He also spoke with Chris Gammell The Amp Hour 357 about monitoring servers, many many servers. F...

Aimee Lucido ( @AimeeLucido ) is a software engineer and children's book author. Her first book is Emmy in the Key of Code about music, learning to code, and fitting in. We spoke with Aimee about writing, programming, publishing, and putting beautiful words together. You can get a copy of Emmy in the Key of Code from Booksmith , IndieBound , Barnes & Noble , Target , or Amazon . The music playlist...

Pete Staples of Blue Clover Devices ( bcdevices.com , @theiotodm ) spoke with us about tools for manufacturing hardware.  Some posts and products from Blue Clover Devices: PLT Spec Sheet and ICT System How to write PLT Board Test Plans (using YAML) PCB Design Tips and More PCB Design Tips Flying Probe Testers in a Nutshell Zephyr - an OS for IoT BC Devices github Behind the scenes at factories: Sh...