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Windell Oskay ( @Oskay ) of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories ( @EMSL ) told us about co-authoring a book:  The Annotated Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory . Some great EMSL links: A signed copy of Windell's book Dis-integrated 555 timer kit Candle flicker LEDs Food in specimen jars EMSL blog post Spherical pen plotter ( EggBot Pro! ) The book Chris brought up was Thinking Physics . Windell is al...

Bob Coggeshall ( @BobCoggeshall ) runs a boutique assembly house. And he co-wrote sudo. There are sandwich jokes.  Bob's business is Small Batch Assembly ( @SmallBatchA ). (There might be a discount on your first order near the end of the show. Maybe.) His pick and place machine is a Mancorp MC400 .  Octopart's Common Parts Library We mentioned OSHPark a few times, Laen has been on Embedded.fm:  9...

Chris and Elecia try out their new recording location, give advice for getting a job in embedded software, and respond to listener emails. SparkFun's Pit of Despair is a blog post about how to create products from prototypes. Visual Studio has plug-ins that support microprocessors, see Visual Micro . The Guardian reports that 2016 VW models have a different defeat.

We spoke with Fran Blanche ( @contourcorsets ) of Frantone about guitar tone.  Fran has several articles and posts about space, electronics, and assorted whatnot at her  design writings page. Her video blog is on YouTube. There are many different guitar pedals you can build for yourself as a way to get a better handle on analog electronics. Elecia found these at Mammoth Electronics . The song that...

Kathleen Sidenblad discusses her career through Silicon Valley, from engineer at Systems Control Inc in 1976 to VP of Engineering today. For more about Kathy, check out this Storehouse interview.   

Ben Krasnow of the Applied Science YouTube channel talks with us about scanning electron microscopes, generating liquid nitrogen, and cookies.  Hackaday Conference is Nov 14-15, 2015 in SF, CA!  Call for proposals . (Ben and Elecia are  Hackaday Prize Judges .) Contact Ben through twitter:  @BenKrasnow Applied Science YouTube channel  (and don't forget the associated Patreon ). Some specific video...

Morgan Allen ( @captain_morgan ) spoke with us about Sphero and Node. JS. This is all not-so-secretly a discussion of the BB8 robot. Correction: Despite Elecia's repeated insistence that these are steppers, she's just wrong. The motors are DC which only makes sense in a consumer product. More details on this in a later episode. BB8s from Amazon (probably won't arrive until next year) More info on...

Chris and Elecia discuss listener emails and other assorted topics. Preprocessor fun BLE 4.2 writeup from EETimes and the FAQ from Bluetooth.org Drones should follow existing aviation keep out standards (Nick links us to some wiki pages) Automatic dependent surveillance NOTAM Federal Aviation Regulations: Temporary flight restrictions NYT Amazon culture article Cake under a microscope

Glenn Scott ( @GlennCScott ) spoke with us about API design and techniques for writing good software. Glenn glossed over his bio but it is quite impressive. You can reach him via his PARC page . PARC's Content Centric Networking home:  ccnx.org  which we talked about in 75: End Up in a Puppy Fight . Literate Programming by Knuth And the more recommended Bob Martin's books While latest source code...

Daniel Hienzsch ( @ rheingoldheavy ) spoke with us about reverse engineering a board, bypass capacitors, and serial protocols. Rheingold Heavy is Dan's company for educational boards. The one he started with was the I2C and SPI education board  (its fulfilled kickstarter page ). He brought us the the Graphic Equalizer Kit and Bubble Display Experimentation Pack . Dan's Arduino from Scratch  blog s...

Andrei Chichak rejoins us to discuss error handling.  Andrei's website says how to reach him or email embedded 'at' chichak.ca Windows 10 "Something Happened" error Hitchbot Book Elecia mentioned: Kindness of Strangers  by Mike McIntyre Elecia's book covers logging module in Creating a System Architecture (pp 21-25) Robots and children

Clive Turvey (Clive1), master of the ST Forums, talks with us about ARM cores and answering difficult technical questions for fun. Some answers: NVIC Interrupts on the same pin number STM32F4 PWM channel 3 ST's Cortex-M7 Books (though we talked more about these being good authors, these are the ones Chris and Elecia have or want): The Definitive Guide to ARM Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4 Processors, 3rd...

Chris ( @stoneymonster ) and Elecia ( @logicalelegance ) chat with each other about drones, listener emails, conferences, fighting robots, and moonlighting. Elecia's Solid talk, an Introduction to Inertial Sensors is on youtube . Washington Post article about Amazon's good drone behavior  Apple's IOS security guide  (Elecia's security checklist ) Photon WiFi Module (Chris' Linker articles part one...

Natalie Silvanovich ( @natashenka ) discussed reverse engineering hardware, working on security software, and the fantastic world of Tamagotchis. Natalie's site and blog Hardware Excuse Generator  Original CCC 2012 talk: Many Tamagotchis Were Harmed in the Making of this Presentation CCC 2013 talk:  Even More Tamagotchis Were Harmed in the Making of this Presentation   Natalie's upcoming BlackHat...

BeagleBone's Jason Kridner ( @Jadon ) returns to tell us about his new book. Jason co-authored a new book:  BeagleBone Cookbook: Software and Hardware Problems and Solutions  (or at O'Reilly ). His older book is  Bad to the Bone: Crafting Electronics Systems with Beaglebone and BeagleBone Black . Previous Embedded.fm episode  60: Fun Things You Can Make out of Beagles BeagleBoard.org's Google Summ...

James Grenning ( @jwgrenning ) returns to discuss TDD, Agile, and web courses.  James was on Embedded.fm episode 30: Eventually Lighting Strikes . James' new company is Wingman Software . His excellent book is  TDD for Embedded C .  James suggested  Training From the Back of the Room!  as resource to people looking to put together a class. He uses and recommends CyberDojo as a coding instruction t...

Jen ( @RebelbotJen ) joined Chris and Elecia to discuss security, privacy, and ethics in wearable computing.  Elecia's Linker post is especially relevant this week: Device Security Checklist .. There is already a standard for privacy and security: HIPAA  (Title II). While not easy to read, it is a reasonable starting place. Another good (but not quite on-point) resource is the EFF Secure Messaging...

We talked to Craig Cook about learning embedded systems. He recently attended an  embedded edX course through University of Texas .   The microcontroller and boards used in the course Craig's next course will be Interactive Python through Coursera As we discussed Craig's alarm clock we mentioned many parts including: FM Module ESP8266 WiFi Module Electric Imp ( Sparkfun or Digikey , don't forget t...

Chris and Elecia talk about satellites, survey results, and entertainment. ESP8266 has an Arduino IDE  (thanks, Karl!) Elecia will be speaking at Solid  June 25th and ESC July 22nd. To celebrate the first 100 episodes, Elecia made a spreadsheet of all the guests and topics . Chris read and recommended Neal Stephenson's Seveneves . He was ambivalent about the latest incarnation of battlebots .

Manny Wright of Cortus spoke with us about developing processor IP and how it goes from RTL to silicon.  Cortus development platform with a Xilinx Spartan and Arduino Due compatibility. Planet Labs  satellite contest winners are announced and Elecia has a cold.

Atmel's Andreas Eieland ( @AndreasMCUguy ) spoke with us about low power chips and benchmarks, including tips for measuring and achieving the lowest power possible. EEMBC has a low power benchmark: ULPBench . EETimes wrote up a great introduction to the benchmark. Atmel's SAM-L posted some excellent numbers for ULPBench. Chris wanted to look at processors between Cortex-M4 and phone chips. Andreas...

Mark VanderVoord ( @mvandervoord ) spoke with us about leading open source projects and test driven development. His site is ThrowTheSwitch.org , a good place to get started with test driven development. Get more info (and a coupon) for his course . Mark's book is Embedded Testing with Unity and CMock .  Lengthy list of unit testing frameworks for C Why's Guide to Learning Ruby (free! with enterta...

Charles Lohr spoke with us about $5 WiFi (ESP8266), hacking as a hobby, arcade games, and music visualization. Updated 06/02/2015: A listener pointed out that the Arduino IDE can program the ESP8266 , probably an easier setup than Charles' original article. Also, the Linker post for this show is about getting started with BLE . Follow Charles on YouTube  (or say hello on Google+  and Hackaday.io )...

Micah Elizabeth Scott ( @scanlime ) spoke with us about Coastermelt, art installations, FadeCandy, teaching electronics to artists, and mental health.  Her Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) installation is mesmerizing, some videos .  In her  Coastermelt project, Micah uses the IDA disassembler . FadeCandy is for sale at Adafruit. Zen Photon is online, demonstrating ray tracing. Micah's  w...

Star Simpson ( @starsandrobots ) and Jen Costillo ( @RebelbotJen ) catch up with Elecia and Chris, discussing how hobby projects have changed over the last two years since the show started.  Jen's website: RebelBot Star's website  and weekly drone newsletter The Buzzer . Star works at Orion (formerly OnBeep). Novena board and Star's project Balboa ODROID Open Cores Crowd supply and What it took to...