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John Schuch ( @JohnS_AZ ) talked with us about being a semifinalist in the Hackaday Prize, his project, and entering other contests. John's webpage John's Hackaday Page Winning Entry on Mouser 500 Challenge Honorable Mention on Circuit Cellar's ChipKit2012 Many contests are announced on Circuit Cellar  and searching the EEVBlog forums . IRC channel mentioned is TYMKRS

Christopher and Elecia look through listener email, check in on what past guests are up to, and consider the best and worst of science in recent fiction.  Hackaday Prize Finalists (and the 50 Semiinalists ) Saleae Logic Pro 16 (related: Drive the Boat with a Wii Mote ) Darma Kickstarter  (related: Resonant Frequency of My Butt ) Peep sign up to be notified of their Kickstarter (related: Vision for...

Emile Petrone ( @emilepetrone ) talked with Chris and Elecia about Tindie : buying, selling, changing the rate of hardware innovation, having a burgeoning start up, connecting government agencies to craft electronics, etc.  We talked about many amazing projects on Tindie but there were so many, it is hard to call them out. Arduboy and AirPi Raspberry Pi weather station are two that stood out.

Intellectual property attorney Judith Szepesi ( @Judith_IP ) discusses what Elecia (and startups) need to know about patenting. Judith is a founding partner at HIPLegal, LLP . They will soon have a guide to addressing patent trolls (link to be added when available). Ask Patents - a Stack Exchange site to discuss patents (and patent trolls)  Judith and Elecia both recommend the Patent It Yourself b...

Rob Faludi ( @Falud i), author of Building Wireless Sensor Networks  and chief innovator at Digi International , spoke with us about Zigbee, writing, and experimenting. Rob's blog Books we talked about: Building Wireless Sensor Networks  (of course!) Creativity, Inc.   Make: Wearable Electronics

Mike Szczys ( @Szczys ) discusses @Hackaday , the SPACE! prize, being a professional musician, and visiting Silicon Valley. Hackaday.com blog  including Mike's post about  Why Open Design is the way forward   Hackaday.io project site Hackaday Prize All entries 50 semifinalists Science fiction contest winners  (previous contest) Mike was on the judging panel to winnow down from 800 entries to 50. S...

Angie Chang ( @thisgirlangie ) joined us to talk about the coding bootcamp Hackbright Academy , their upcoming hardware hackathon, Girl Geek Dinners , and the extreme awkwardness of networking. Sign up to be a hackathon mentor (not gender limited) or to be on the waitlist to attend (women only). Get your team together on Hackathon IO . Sign up to be a Hackbright Academy mentor. Oh look! Elecia sig...

In front of a live audience, Chris and Elecia talk about their experiences with FAA and FDA. This show was recorded live in front of the  Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source meetup group at Hacker Dojo .  The Wikipedia article on DO-178B  is a good place to get an overview of the FAA process (even for other levels of concern). For FDA, their guidance  is the best place to start. Also see their ...

Jack Gassett ( @gadgetfactory ) is the creator of the open source FPGA  Papilio development board. He joins Chris and Elecia to answer the age-old question of how to get started with FPGAs. Jack's company is  Gadget Factory . Chris got the Papilio Pro  and Arcade MegaWing . Recommended reading: Mike Field's book  Introducing the Spartan 3E FPGA and VHDL (FREE! With code!) Mealy and Tappero's Free...

Darma ( @Darma_inc ) is a nascent start-up focusing on optical sensors in a seat cushion to aid in posture, stress reduction, and meditation. Chris and Elecia speak with CEO Dr. Junhao Hu and Sharif Kassatly about building a company, going through the Haxlr8r 's accelerator program, and choosing a crowd funding platform. Keep up with Darma on their webpage  and on their Facebook page . One of thei...

WHOOPS! We didn't record Elecia's mic this week and are taking a track direct from Chris' computer mic. Sound quality is not up to our normal standards. Sorry! Chris ( @stoneymonster ) hosted the show, asking Elecia ( @logicalelegance ) what it was like to write her Making Embedded Systems book. (Thanks to Chris Svec for the request!) Put in your idea to O'Reilly Write a novel this November with N...

Steve Dalton ( @spidie ) told us about starting a hackerspace, visiting Silicon Valley with a homebrew incubator group, and tech and fencing Australia.  Gold Coast Tech Space  started off building the Rep Rap 3D printer Steve's consulting group is Refactor Silicon Lakes  incubator just opened a call for applications to the SURF accelerator .  The Arduino-like GCDuino , available on Little Bird Rab...

Josh Bleecher Snyder ( @offbymany ) joined us to talk about PayPal's  Beacon , being acquired, the  Go programming language, BTLE, computer vision, and working at a large company after founding small ones. Bluetooth Low Energy: A Developer's Handbook by Robin Heydon TI CC2540 BTLE module Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision by Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler Gatt is a Go package for building Bluetooth...

Jen Costillo ( @rebelbotJen ) brings Fashion Professor Kyle Chan to discuss wearables from a different perspective. California College of the Arts' Summer Series: Design of Wearables . Jen and Kyle's session is Fashionably Practical  on Wedneday, August 6th, 2014 8:15pm-10pm in San Francisco. Sparkfun conductive ribbon and thermochromatic pigment (blue) Athos athletic body monitoring Cute Circuit'...

Jason Kridner ( @Jadon ) joined us to talk about the BeagleBone Black ... and other things. Some good books for Beagle : Bad to the Bone: Crafting Electronics Systems with Beaglebone and BeagleBone Black (co-authored by Jason) Getting Started with BeagleBone: Linux-Powered Electronic Projects With Python and JavaScript Programming the BeagleBone Black: Getting Started with JavaScript and BoneScrip...

Chris and Elecia went on vacation so this week we have music for you: the Ballistic Cats will be releasing a new album soon! If you like it, please check out the Ballistc Cats website . This album will be officially released on August 15, 2014. 

Craig Sullender of ChipSight  joined Elecia and Christopher to talk about machine, computer, and embedded vision.  Craig's   $20 Vision System –  IoTcam Lighting control demos   Slides on embedded CV technology Peep , a camera for your door'd peephole (soon to be on Kickstarter) Lattice Mach X02 O'Reilly's Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV

Joe Grand ( @JoeGrand ) spoke with us about his life as Kingpin, hardware hacking, hosting a TV show, and being a Hackaday judge. Joe's company is the Grand Idea Studio . His TV show Prototype This was on the Discovery Channel. He created an Atari game:  SCSIcide .  Joe will be giving his hardware hacking training at Black Hat USA in August (as well as some of the other security conferences in als...

Ken Milnes talked to Elecia and Chris about his career developing augmented reality for sports broadcasting. SportVision MLB Stats

Matt Haines ( @beardedinventor ) and Tom Byrne ( @tlbyrn ) spoke to Elecia and Chris about Electric Imp ( @electricimp ). This discussion goes far beyond our first with Matt ( Episode 6 !). It is more software and implementation oriented than last week's Amp Hour .  In the vein of "what do I do after I've made an LED blink from a webpage?": Tom's Neopixel Weather project ( instructable !) Mars Cur...

Radhika Thekkath, CEO of Agivox , joined Elecia to talk about her start up, entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, and getting NSF SBIR grants .  Contact Radhika   SBIR home page

Elizabeth Brenner ( @eabrenner ) returned to the show to talk about the are-you-ok widget that she and Elecia have been working on. (The initial problem-statement show is episode 17 .) There is now a SparkFun tutorial so you can build one of the are-you-ok widgets yourself. As announced in the show, there is a contest to get a SparkFun gift card, it ends 6/13/14 so get your answer in by then (maxi...

Elecia attended O'Reilly's Solid Conference , recording a few of the people she met there. Note: this episode is recorded in a noisy location. Erin Mulcahy at littleBits  ( @littleBits ), magnetic electronics modules Jack Mudd at Onewheel ( @RideOnewheel ), powered sort-of skateboard with only one wheel and auto-balancing Laurie Yoler from Qualcomm , she spoke on  Intelligent Connectivity. It's Wh...

Jack Ganssle shared his wisdom on being a good embedded software engineer (hint: it takes discipline).  Jack's website is filled with great essays and new videos. He's also written the Art of Designing Embedded Systems  and The Embedded Systems Dictionary (with Michael Barr). We covered a lot of ground, here are some of the highlights: Spark language Capers Jones on high quality software and assoc...

Elecia spoke with Micheal Worry, CEO of Nuvation , about engaging with and working at a design firm.  Disco Fish , the autonomous Burning Man party vehicle Udacity course in autonomous vehicles ROS  is Willow Garage's robot operating system Contact Nuvation at their website or on twitter ( @Nuvation ). Contact Disco Fish and its build buddies on Facebook .