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Professor Angela Sodemann of @ASU spoke with us about new ways of teaching, robotics, and haptic displays . Angela's robotics courses can be found at RoboGrok.com , including the parts kit . Note that they focus on creating usable robotics as well as teaching theory so there is math, code, and hardware.  

Noah Leon made a film: Love Notes to Newton . It features the people who love and the people who built the Apple Newton . We spoke with him about the Newton and about filmmaking. Noah runs Moosefuel Media . He wanted to mention Frank Orlando of OrlandoMedia , the art designer for the film and promotional material. Profits from Love Notes to Newton go to Be The Match , a registry of bone marrow don...

Helen Leigh ( @helenleigh ) is an author, education writer and maker. She spoke with us about making learning fun (and subversive). Her latest book is The Crafty Kid's Guide to DIY Electronics , out in November 2018. The instrument gloves were the mi.mu ( full version ) and the mini.mu DIY kit (coming soon to Pimoroni and Adafruit ). The mini.mu uses the BBC Micro:bit . Helen worked on earlier boo...

Christopher ( @stoneymonster ) and Elecia ( @logicalelegance ) talks about vacations for learning and hobbies then answered listener questions. Chris' toys include the Prusa I3 Mk3 and the UAD Arrow . Elecia likes Camille Fournier's book, The Manager's Path . She also got to plug her own book, Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software .   Pacific spiny lumpsucker ( Eumicrotremus...

Brandon Wilson ( @brandonlwilson ) shared his stories about hacking TI calculators (and other things). TICalc.org has the latest on getting started yourself including Z80 assemblers, or start on Brandon's website: brandonw.net Bradon will be speaking at Hardwear.io , a security conference for the hardware and security community. The conference consists of training (11th - 12th Sept 2018) and confe...

We spoke with Axel Poschmann of DarkMatter LLC ( @GuardedbyGenius ) about embedded security. For a great in-depth introduction, Axel suggested Christof Paar's Introduction to Cryptography class , available on YouTube. We also talked about ENISA's Hardware Threat Landscape and Good Practices Guide . Axel will be speaking at Hardwear.io , a security conference for the hardware and security community...

Derek Fronek spoke with us about FIRST robotics. His TechHOUNDS ( @TechHOUNDS868 ) team is based in Carmel, Indiana. They won the state competition and placed 5th in the high school FRC championship. Derek mentioned the roboRIO controller board , TalonSRX speed controller , and the Spark motor controller . Many of these offer deep discounts to FIRST robotics participants. Check out FirstInspires.o...

Chris ( @stoneymonster ) and Elecia ( @logicalelegance ) celebrate the 256th episode with a confusing lack of cupcakes. IAmTheCalvary.org has an excellent Hippocratic Oath for Connected Medical Devices   Make Magazine has some tips to tighten security on DIY IoT Projects . Rockstar Language Specification (and FizzBuzz example)  The C++ episode discussed was #247 with Jason Turner . Topics and Time...

Ariel Waldman ( @arielwaldman ) spoke with us about how science, art, and all of the other disciplines can build a better world. Ariel does many amazing things, it is hard to list them all. Homepage: arielwaldman.com YouTube: arielwaldman   Science Hack Day: sciencehackday.org and Twitter @ScienceHackDay Space Hack directory of ways to get involved: spacehack.org Patreon page: arielwaldman Book: W...

Gabriel Jacobo ( @gabrieljacobo ) spoke with us about embedded graphics, contributing to the Linux SDL, using MQTT, and working far from his employers. Gabriel's blog and resume are available on his site mdqinc.com . His github repo is under gabomdq .  SDL is Simple DirectMedia Layer ( wiki ). It is not so simple. For MQTT-based home automation, he uses the Raspberry Pi Home Assistant build and ma...

Micah Elizabeth Scott ( @scanlime ) came to talk about Fadecandy , a really neat way to control smart LEDs ( NeoPixel , AdaFruit's term for the WS2812). The conversation ranged from beautiful LED control algorithms and open source embedded projects to triangle tessellations , art, and identity.  AdaFruit has a great intro to Fadecandy . Fadecandy is open source hardware and software, see the repos...

Jen Costillo ( @rebelbotjen ) joins Elecia White to discuss the secret parts of C, keywords that only embedded software engineers seem to know about. Jen and Elecia talk about interviewing and why these keywords make good questions for finding folks who use the language to its full potential. On the show they mention a  list of embedded interview questions with answers . (Note: Elecia's book  has...

We spoke with Kathleen Tuite ( @kaflurbaleen ) about augmented reality, computer vision, games with a purpose, and meetups. Kathleen's personal site (filled with many interesting projects we didn't talk about) is SuperFireTruck.com . Kathleen works for GrokStyle , a company that lets you find furniture you like based on what you see. GrokStyle is used in the Augmented Reality try-it-at-home IKEA P...

Katie Malone ( @multiarmbandit ) works in data science, has podcast about machine learning, and has a Phd in Physics. We mostly talked about machine learning, ways to kill people, mathematics, and impostor syndrome. Katie is the host of the Linear Digressions podcast ( @LinDigressions ). She recommended the Linear Digressions interview with Matt Might as something Embedded listeners might enjoy. K...

This week, we spoke with Addie ( @atdiy ) and Whisker ( @whixr ), the Toymakers ( @Tymkrs ). Their latest CypherCon badges included a complete phone system. For more information, check out the user documentation at hackthebadge.com or the related Reddit post . There is a video of Joe Grand's 2018 CypherCon talk if you'd like to watch him talk about his juvenile delinquency. In our last episode wit...

Finally! An episode with version control! And D&D! Chris Svec ( @christophersvec ) joins us to discuss why version control is critical to professional software development and what the most important concepts are. T-Shirts are on sale for a limited time:  US distributor and EU distributor . You can read more from Chris on the Embedded Blog . He writes the ESE101 column (new posts soon!). If you ar...

Claire Rowland ( @clurr ) joined to discuss creating good user experiences for the Internet of Things. Claire is the lead author of Designing Connected Products: UX for the Consumer Internet of Things . You can find more about her on clairerowland.com , from her talks (including Interusability: UX for Connected Products ), her book's website , and her guest appearance on the IoT Podcast ( episode...

Chris ( @stoneymonster ) and Elecia ( @logicalelegance ) answer listener emails. We did a show with Dennis Jackson about transitioning from software to embedded: 211: 4 Weeks, 3 Days Chibios RTOS : MyNewt or Zephyr may be more worth your time. Software tool: Beyond Compare for excellent differencing, including folder level Other people answer STEAM vs STEM (in about the same way we did). C++ stand...

Jason Turner ( @lefticus ) of the CPPCast ( @cppcast ) spoke with us about modern C++ in embedded systems. Jason's articles can be found on EmptyCrate.com . You can also contact him there and find out more about his training sessions. Jason's video channel is on C++ Weekly  and includes an ARM emulator written in C++, running on Compiler Explorer . Jason often uses Compiler Explorer by Matt Godbol...

Alvaro Prieto ( @alvaro prieto ) spoke with us about laser turrets, tearing down quadcopters, flux capacitors, the moon, and culture at work. Alvaro's blog Alvaro's github repositories including Proto-X quadcopter information , Silta bus monitoring , and Skype video message exporter for OSX . One of the inspirations for taking apart the Proto-X was watching Micah talk about her Coastermelt  projec...

We spoke with Dr. Bennie Lewis ( @_benjoe02 ) about machine learning and robotics. Bennie is a Senior Research Scientist at Lockheed Martin, content creator, and Twitch streamer ( benjoe02 ) NVIDIA Jetson platform and Cuda for deep learning LEGO Mindstorms SAMS C++ in One Hour a Day by Siddhartha Rao

Stephen Kraig ( @Macro_Ninjaneer ) and Parker Dillmann ( @LnghrnEngineer ), of Macrofab ( @MacroFab ) joined us to chat about getting hardware and software to work together. Stephen and Parker are also hosts of the Macrofab podcast . We compared out-the-ordinary podcast guests. For MacroFab episode 112  it was their conversation with a patent lawyer. For Embedded episode 150  it was our conversati...

Kristina Durivage ( @gelicia ) described her path getting into making and hardware hacking as a complement to her day job working in front-end software. Kristina's portfolio.gelicia.com includes write-ups on her projects ( TweetSkirt , Kitchen Playset Game ) as well as links to her talks. Or you can skip to her github.com/gelicia repository. Kristina has a chapter in the 10 LED Projects for Geeks...

We spoke with Michael Barr ( @embeddedbarr ) about the Barr Group  embedded systems survey. You can download the 2018 survey at the Barr Group survey page . The Barr Group Embedded C Coding Standard is also free to download (with registration). You can buy a paper copy on Amazon . Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++ 1st Edition by Michael Barr, also available for free in HTML on the Barr Gro...

Christine Sunu ( @christinesunu ) spoke with us about the feelings we get from robots. For more information about emotive design, check out Christine's website: christinesunu.com . From there you can find hackpretty.com , some of her talks (including the TED talk with the Fur Worm ), and links to her projects (such as Starfish Cat and a Cartoon Guide to the Internet of Things ). You can find more...