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Aditi Hilbert ( @HilbertAditi ) spoke with us about MyNewt , an Apache-licensed RTOS and bootloader. MyNewt's Apache page is mynewt.apache.org and the github repository is github.com/apache/incubator-mynewt-core . In the README.md, check out the section marked browsing which points to the file system, ble stack, and assorted other source code goodies you may want to read. The secure bootloader cod...

We discussed CubeSats with their co-inventor, Professor Jordi Puig-Suari, Professor of Aerospace Engineering at CalPoly SLO and co-founder of Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems . The 2017 CubeSat conference is in San Luis Obispo, CA on April 26-28. More details at CubeSat.org . Information about CubeSats at CalPoly SLO can be found at PolySat.org . Tyvak is hiring for a number of different positions: ty...

Shulie Tornel ( @helixpea ) joined us to talk about the 2017 Hackaday Prize ( @hackaday and @hackadayio ). Hackaday World Create Day is April 22nd, let them know if you want do a meetup so they can add you to the calendar. Elecia gave away all of her potential ideas, trying to figure out which one would work best for entry. It was probably Maxwell except for its lack of novelty (Embedded shows #17...

Owen Anderson ( @OwenResistor ) joined us to talk about how compilers are written. We discussed  LLVM ,  intermediate representation ,  clang , and GPUs. As mentioned at the end of the show, Owen's current employer  is hiring . If you are interested and would like to get the brownie points that come with being a friend of a friend, contact us and we'll connect you to Owen and he'll submit your res...

Terry Dunlap , CEO of  Tactical Network Solutions  ( @tacnetsol ), spoke with us about security in the Internet of Things. The good: Top 10 Secure Coding Practices  (from CERT.org) UL 2900 standard  (consumer label for security) The bad and the ugly: FTC complain about TrendNet FDA alert about St Jude's implantable defibrillator Mirai botnet

Chris ( @stoneymonster ) and Elecia ( @logicalelegance ) answer listener emails. Get your entries in for  March Micro Madness , the matches start very soon. The short story Elecia finds most memorable is  All Summer in a Day  by Ray Bradbury. We mentioned Procopio who teaches microcontrollers at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education ITESM ( site ,  wiki ) Hector sent up the  I...

Matt Godbolt ( @mattgodbolt ) spoke with us about settling arguments with  Compiler Explorer . Compiler Explorer comes 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 read the code and/or run your o...

Kari Love ( @ikyotochan ) spoke with us about creating soft robotics. You can see her edible soft robots talk from 33c3 . Kari works at Super-Releaser . Her personal site (and blog) is Kari Makes . Kari mentioned that the Super-Release intern Aidan had some picks for soft robotics on Instructables . Super-Releaser created the Glaucus soft robot and Adafruit has an in-depth tutorial for how to make...

Scott Hanselman ( @shanselman ) of the  Hanselminutes Podcast  talks about technology podcasting and philosophy. You can find Scott's blog on  Hanselman.com/blog  and his other podcasts on  Hanselman.com/podcasts . We talked about Hansleminutes'  WebVR episode with Ada Rose Edwards  and  Alcohol and Tech with Victor Yocco . We also mentioned Scott's  blog post  from 2014 about what technologies he...

Crossing machine intelligence, robotics, and medicine, Patrick Pilarski ( @patrickpilarski ) is working on smart prosthetic limbs. Build your own learning robot references:  Weka Data Mining Software in Java  for getting to know your data,  OpenIA Gym  for understanding reinforcement learning algorithms,  Robotis Servos  for the robot (AX is the lower priced line), and five lines of code: pred = n...

Indrek Rebane ( @RebaneIndrek ) spoke with us about the Garage48 Hardware and Arts hackathon, hardware incubators in Estonia, linguistics, hydrology, and startup investments. Garage48 Hardware & Arts hackathon is February 17-19, 2017 at the Institute of Physics, University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia). The event is organized by Garage48, University of Tartu and the Estonian Academy of Arts. Indrek is...

While we planned to ask  Andrei Chichak  to podcast when he was in town for the Embedded.fm party, we spent too much time goofing off. So we are replaying Andrei's first appearance on the show where he spoke with us about  MISRA-C  and ethics.  (Note that this is the same Andrei who writes the STM32  Embedded Wednesday  posts for the Embedded.fm blog.) Linker post:  It's dangerous to go alone! Tak...

Debby Meredith ( @DebbyMe ) stops by to tell us what it is like being a venture partner and interim VP of engineering. Debby is a venture partner at  Icon Ventures . Her website is  DebbyMeredith.com . She was on a new podcast:  Women Who Code Radio . Computer History Museum's new exhibit is  Make Software: Change the World . It opens on January 28, 2017.  After recording, Debby mentioned a book s...

Ben Krasnow ( @BenKrasnow ) spoke with us about prototyping, Patreon, and staying current. And a whole bunch of stuff. January 28th Hats and Hacks Party RSVP Ben's YouTube channel is  Applied Science . His recent videos have been shot with the high speed  Chronos camera  (whose creator David Kronstein was on  The Amp Hour #325 ). Ben has a  Patreon page  which funds randomness. ( Embedded  also ha...

Philip Koopman ( @BetterEmbSW ) spoke with us about making better embedded software. His  Better Embedded Systems Software  blog has lots of great information including links to his  growing video library . Two posts noted in the show: Recording Peer Reviews Spreadsheet Code Review Checklist His company,  Edge Case Research , performs design and code reviews and teaches how to do them. You can fin...

Chris ( @stoneymonster ) and Elecia ( @logicalelegance ) talk with each other about about a party, listener emails, and assorted questions. RSVP for the Embedded.fm party! The Embedded Blog is at  embedded.fm/blog . Chris Svec wrote  a post about picking a processor platform . Don't Panic Geocast episode with Elecia Elecia'a book:  Making Embedded Systems Compiler explorer is  GodBolt.org Imposter...

Chris Gammell  ( @Chris_Gammell ) of  The Amp Hour  and  Contextual Electronics  joined Elecia and Chris for a holiday special Ampbedded (EmbHour?) episode. Embedded will be having a Hats and Hacks party in Aptos, CA. You can come!  RSVP on Eventbrite . Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise Analog Discovery  vs  Saleae Embe...

Have you ever wondered how your programming tool works? Piotr Esden-Tempski and Gareth McMullin have built the Black Magic Probe and joined the show to explain how it works. Kickstarter for Black Magic and 1Bitsy  ends December 29th. If you missed it (or need a Black Magic v2 instead of waiting for v2.1) go to the  1BitSquared Store . For more in-depth information about Black Magic, look at  Garet...

Miro Samek ( @mirosamek ) of  Quantum Leaps  spoke with us about making better state machines through  actor objects  and  hierarchical state machines . Miro wrote a book:  Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems . He has an excellent  YouTube channel  explaining embedded concepts. We discussed his  video that describes how a stack overflow works  and the ...

We spoke with Chris Maury ( @CMaury ) about using speech recognition to interact with devices.  Note : Please turn off your Echo and Dots as we invoke Alexa  a lot .  Chris is the founder of  Conversant Labs . They created  TinCan.ai  which can help you wireframe or prototype a conversational user interface.  They can also help you build Alexa Skills, though if you are so inclined, you might try i...

After a few announcements, we replayed the episode where James Grenning told us about Test Driven Development.  Note: the contest mentioned in the show is over.  However, the  SparkFun TinkerKit  contest ends December 9th so you still have time to win something! Other announcements include: Elecia was on the  Don't Panic GeoCast  (#97) You can send us email by hitting the  contact link on embedded...

Chris and Elecia answer listener emails on-air. Patreon Embedded.fm blog SparkFun Tinker Kit BB8 Sphero Jewelbots  (from  #173 ) Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction  by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner  The Wild Robot  by Peter Brown

Toni Klopfenstein ( @ToniCorinne ) joined us to talk about what it is like working at  SparkFun ( @SparkFun ) and why open source hardware is important. Open Source Hardware Association ( OSHWA.org ) has a certification program for open source hardware projects and products. Some of the SparkFun products and posts we talked about: Tinker Kit SparkPunk Sound Kit FLiR Dev Kit  with its  hookup guide...

Jean Labrosse of  Micrium  ( @Micrium ) spoke with us about writing a real time operating system (uC/OS), building a business, and caring about code quality. Take a look at the  uC/OS operating systems  (available for  free to makers ) and Jean's excellent and free  RTOS books  (it was the Kinetis one that talks about the medical process). Also, check out the  uCProbe  which integrates with your d...

We spoke to Evan Shapiro, CTO and cofounder of  Knit Health  ( @KnitHealth ), about baby monitors, IoT security, neural nets, and professional poker. The  Knit Health Kickstarter  ends November 17, 2016. Evan recommended  Google Tensor Flow  and  Python's Theano  for an introduction to machine learning. (If those sound familiar it is because  Kat Scott  mentioned them as well.) Evan also suggested...