Embedded

Torie Charvez spoke with us about what it takes to start and run your own business in the US. We talked about starting your own consulting company, selling your latest gadget, and all of the bookkeeping, tax issues, and details involved. Torie's company is Tax Goddess . The write-off publication she mentioned is on the IRS site is Chapter 8 of Publication 535 . Elecia mentioned her Snow White's Gu...

Craig Smith ( @OpenGarages ) spoke with us about hacking the software in cars.  His book is the Car Hackers Handbook . There is a 40% off coupon toward the end of the show. OpenGarages is Craig's site to improve and encourage hacking. Some tools he recommends for getting started are USB2CAN and CANTact . An older (shorter) version of the handbook is on OpenGarages. I Am The Cavalry ( iamthecavalry...

Saron Yitbarek ( @saronyitbarek ) spoke with us about Code Newbie , a site that help people learn to program and about the Code Newbie podcast . We mentioned Paul Ford's Code Newbie episode discussing his Bloomberg issue code. Saron also has a personal blog which has her post I am not a tinkerer . Saron spoke on Punching Your Feelings in the Face  at ELA Conf 2015.

Micah Elizabeth Scott ( @scanlime)  joined us to talk about her new art and engineering projects. Micah's site is misc.name/  and her YouTube channel is micahjd . She launched a Patreon page . Wiggleport has its own site ( wiggleport.org ) and github ( github.com/wiggleport ). Check out the art in the repo ! The Bela project on kickstarter has some overlap. Micah will be keynoting the 2016 Open So...

Philip Freidin ( @PhilipFreidin ) spoke with us about his BLE platform OSHChip , debuggers, and consulting. Planet Labs is sponsoring a contest! Hit the contact link to enter. Also check out their careers page  and apply to embeddedfm@planet.com . Both the OSHChip and the CMSIS-DAP SWD programming module  are on Philip's Tindie store . While Keil is the suggested compiler for now,  you can also us...

Kelly McEvers ( @kellymcevers ) joins us to talk about the definition of embedded.   Kelly McEvers is one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon news magazine. She is also the host of a new podcast called Embedded which takes a story from the news and goes much deeper into it.   Her Embedded podcast launches on March 31st.  Subscribe now on iTunes , listen on NPR.com...

Christopher and Elecia chat about the Hackaday prize, Unity class (and their games), the blog, hams, and IDEs. Embedded.fm blog posts we discussed: Chris wrote about ham radio practice tests and his plane's maiden flight . Elecia is working her way through her book about taking apart toys . Chris Svec is taking a microprocessors approach in Embedded Systems 101 . And Andrei's current Embedded Wedn...

Dan Luu ( @danluu ) spoke with us about processor features, startups vs large companies, error handling, and computer science research.  Dan's blog is danluu.com . Some posts we talked about: CPU features since 1980 Working at Startups vs. Large Companies Recurring Postmorten Lessons Efficacy of Computer Science Research Areas Dan mentioned some conference proceedings he monitors. For computer arc...

Sarah Petkus offers to let her robot lick Christopher's leg. Christopher agrees reluctantly once we determine the saliva will be anti-bacterial hand sanitizer. Sarah is a kinetic artist and some of her projects include a robot army (built your own from parts printed out or purchased at robot-army.com ), Noodlefeet , and Carl (the flamingo of pendulum inversion). Her Zoness.com site is an umbrella...

Julia Evans ( @b0rk ) spoke with us about using profile analysis to debug programs. Her PyCon 2015 talk was Systems Programming as a Swiss Army Knife ( video ). Julia's blog is jvns.ca . Some of the posts we discussed include: Have High Expectations for Computers How I Got Better at Debugging perf top: An Awesome Way to Spy on CPU Usage Julia's favorite conference to speak at is Bang Bang Con in N...

Andrew "Bunnie" Huang spoke with us about manufacturing in China, writing books, and crowdfunding. Bunnie's new book is The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen. It is available via  crowdsupply  and the price goes from $30 to $35 when pre-ordering ends on March 17, 2016. Bunnie's blog is at www.bunniestudios.com , many of his professional projects can be found at www.kosagi.com including mo...

Andrei Chichak and Chris Svec join us to talk about our new blog: Embedded.fm/blog  (!!). Andrei was on 114: Wild While Loops , about error handling, as well 99: You Can Say A Boat , about MISRA-C. Andrei has been teaching Embedded Wednesdays, an embedded systems class for the Edmonton New Technology Society . It uses the STM32F401C-Discovery board. His course materials are on his site ( chichak.c...

Chris ( @stoneymonster ) and Elecia ( @logicalelegance ) answer listener questions about BASIC and their meet-cute story. (Sadly those are unrelated. That would have been cute.) Dennis Jackson at Airware is looking for a senior EE and an EE technician . Contact us and we'll connect you to Dennis so he knows to look out for you. Dennis' episode was 94: Don't Be Clever about drones, simple code, and...

Dan Saks answers many questions about C++ in embedded systems: where it works, where it doesn't, and a path to getting started.  Dan Saks  is the founder and president of Saks & Associates. He was a columnist for The C/C++ Users Journal, Embedded Systems Design and several other publications. He also served as secretary of the ANSI and ISO C++ standards committee in its early years.  We touched on...

Inventor and Youtube-er, Simone Giertz ( @SimoneGiertz ) tells us about building robots to "help" her daily life. Simone's YouTube Channel . Some of the videos discussed in the show: Chopping Machine VLOG and its TV commercial  (Also: the servo motors used ) Listener Feedback with TENS machine Wake up machine   Simone's blog, with additional robot build details is at simonegiertz.com .  For relaxa...

Anh Bui, Vice President of @Benetech Labs, joined us to discuss using technology for good.  Benetech  is most widely known for Bookshare , an online library for people with print disabilities. Note that this is only open to people with print disabilities per the Chafee Amendment  (copyright exceptions with cause). There are some public domain books you can search through  on the site. Martus is an...

Eric Hankinson ( @Kumichou ) tells us about the new embedded software components of Contextual Electronics . There is a 10% coupon announced in the show, good until June. CE uses the ST-Nucleo-F030R8 board. Eric's blog is www.erichankinson.com and his day job is at LeanDog . The Amp Hour episode with Chris and Elecia is 281: Crossovers and Call-ins Sealand

Christopher ( @stoneymonster ) and Elecia ( @logicalelegance ) inflict lightning round on each other, talk about their new favorite toys, and get momentarily serious about performance reviews. Elecia is looking for a datasheet for the SunPlus SPHE8104GW. Not the 8200. This is not something Google-able. It probably requires knowing the right person, but if you do (or if you are the right person), p...

FIRST Robotics is way to get students of all ages into robotics. Former participant and dedicated mentor, Michael Hill ( @Michael_A_Hill ) tells us about FIRST and how we can get involved. Official site:  FIRSTInspires.org  which also has a list of volunteer roles and qualifications Forums are at ChiefDelphi.com This year's theme is FIRST STRONGHOLD and was designed in collaboration with Disney. T...

Sarah and Abi Hodsdon speak with us about being a maker family.  Sarah's site and blog are Sarahndipitous Designs , her twitter handle is @sarahndipitous . The online K-12 school they use is Connections Academy . Making Makers by AnnMarie Thomas is a book about encouraging kids toward making.  Backyard Ballistics by William Gurstelle is an excellent addition to any library. Giwishes is a massive g...

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 ask Matt Berggren ( @technolomaniac ) to envision an ideal world of product creation.  Matt's Spartan 6 FPGA shield is on the Hackaday Store . Its build process is documented on  Hackaday.io . You can see Matt's other projects on Hackaday.io/matt . Matt works for SupplyFrame . Wishbone is the open source bus system that Elecia likened to ARM's AHB/APB.

Simon Monk ( @simonmonk2 ) talks with us about zombies and writing books.   Simon has 20+ books out, check out his Amazon author page or his web page for a full listing ( simonmonk.org ). Some you might want sooner rather than later include: The Maker's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse: Defend Your Base with Simple Circuits, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi Hacking Electronics 30 Arduino Projects for the E...

🐔=🦃+1 (or Why isn't there a duck emoji? ) Christopher and Elecia talk about languages, twitter, listener emails, and Star Wars. Podcast Awards The Amp Hour talked about languages , they also referenced this compiler writing exercise C alternative tokens iso646.h  and an up to date C reference (Harbison and Steele) $20 Linux board from vocore.io Real Strawberry DNA extraction technique (Elecia fo...

Dan Shapiro ( @danshapiro ), CEO of Glowforge ( @glowforge ), speaks with us about laser cutters and his book, The Hot Seat . If you succumb to the wonder of 3D laser printers, consider using our Glowforge link so you get $100 (and we get $100). Dan's book, the one Elecia gushes about, is The Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook . Some of that information is also found in Dan's blog .  If you are i...