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Anne Barela (@anne_engineer) spoke with us about working as an engineer in the US Foreign Service and writing tutorials for Adafruit . Anne has also written two books: Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket and Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express . To see Anne's writing on Adafruit, check out her page: learn.adafruit.com/users/AnneBarela We also looked at Adafruit's Home Automa...

Doug Ellison (@doug_ellison) , Engineering Camera Team Lead at NASA's JPL and Martian photographer, spoke with us about low power systems, cameras, clouds, and dust devils on Mars. The best paper for learning more is from NASA's JPL site: The Mars Science Laboratory Engineering Cameras Mars rovers wiki

Alvaro Prieto ( @alvaroprieto ) spoke with us about cheese, making, work, the reverse engineering podcast, weather, and motivation. Alvaro is a host of the Unnamed Reverse Engineering podcast . Some of his favorite episodes include #41 with Samy Kamkar , #14 with Joe Grand , and #23 with Major Malfunction . (Jen Costillo co-hosts the show and has been on Embedded several times .) Alvaro works at S...

Chris and Elecia talk with each other about contracting, architecture, origami research, Digilent's new oscilloscope, TensorFlow, map files, conference talks, art and the upcoming 12AX7 album. Digilent sent us a pre-production Analog Discovery Pro ADP3450 . Elecia's Origami Github . Embedded Patreon Embedded Online Conference talk Buried Treasure and Map Files (Note: the coupon code from Jacob's s...

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 are...

Al Sweigart (@AlSweigart) spoke with us about getting better at Python programming.  Al's book site is InventWithPython.com . You can find his books there as well as No Starch Press and Amazon .  Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python Cracking Codes with Python Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python Al's personal site ( alsweigart.com ) has talks, videos, and...

Dr. Ayanna Howard ( @robotsmarts , wiki ) spoke with us about sex, race, and robots.  Ayanna's Audible book is Sex, Race, and Robots: How to Be Human in the Age of AI . You can see more of her research from her Google Scholar page . Find some best practices and tools for reducing bias AI: Partnership on AI   AI Fairness 360 (IBM) Model Cards (Google) Ayanna has recently moved from being Professor...

Laurel Cummings ( @justblamelaurel ) teaches people how to build what is required with the material on hand. We talked with her about how to engineer survival solutions on-the-fly, often while performing disaster relief. Also: what could be made with chewing gum and paper clips. Laurel works at Building Momentum ( buildmo.com ). They are currently hiring. Laurel spoke at SuperCon 2019 about Auster...

Cy Keener spoke with us about sensors, Arduinos, ice, and the crossover between art and science. You can see some of his field work and gallery installations at his site: cykeener.com and on his vimeo channel . Cy is an art professor at the University of Maryland ( bio , youtube ) Cy's advisor at Stanford was Paul DeMarinis ( pauldemarinis.org , Stanford page ). Arduiniana : a blog of useful Ardui...

Jacob Beningo spoke with us about embedded systems, conference talks, writing articles and books, and best practices in development. Jacob is a consultant and instructor, see his website for more details (beningo.com) . Jacob is one of the organizers of the Embedded Online Conference , May 18,19, and 20. Session times is generally noted in Eastern Time (Americas). A coupon code for a discount on r...

Alana Sherman of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI , @MBARI_News ) spoke with us about engineering for deep sea environments and jelly creatures. Alana's MBARI page notes that she worked on DeepPIV and the Benthic Rover . She is also a part of the BioInspiration Lab . Larvaceans: image search , short video , or (my favorite!) the long video . It is probably too late to purchase t...

Chris and Elecia chat about their projects, Python, choosing boards, social media, tshirts, and self care. T Shirts are on sale until the end of February! To decode the titles check out the giant list of all embedded episodes . Our social media empire is growing. Please follow us on any of these sites: Twitter @embeddedfm Instagram @embeddedpodcast Facebook @embeddedfm LinkedIn @Embeddedfm YouTube...

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: What'...

Christelle Rohaut (@chrisrohaut) spoke with us about circular economies and how innovation can build better cities. Christelle is co-founder and CEO of Codi . She is on the Forbes 30 under 30 list .  Second Harvest Food Bank

Ben Hest of Digikey (@digikey) answered questions about finding parts, warehouses, packaging orders, and sweeping components off the floor. The Digikey website: digikey.com . It is ok to click around, looking for a ton of information (as well as parts).  Want to see someone search for parts? Limor at Adafruit does this every week in The Great Search videos ! Ben's favorite new parts are the Raspbe...

Thea Flowers (Stargirl, @theavalkyrie) creates open source and open hardware craft synthesizers that use Circuit Python for customization. She also writes about the internals of the SAMD21. Thea's synthesizer modules are found at Winterbloom , including Castor & Pollux and the Big Honking Button . It is all open source hardware so you can find code and schematics on Thea's github site: github.com/...

Emily Velasco (@MLE_Online) spoke with us about artistic projects, retro-future aesthetics, and scientific communication.  She shows and describes the projects on YouTube: Emily's Electric Oddities including the Optical Sound Decoder, Port-A-Vid, Hairy Cacti, and the Lissajukebox. Many of Emily's professional writings can be found on Wevolver , usually redirected to sites where they are published.

Chris and Elecia talk about making albums, making progress, DIY shot reporting, getting credit, and project management. Check out the Embedded transcripts (now with older shows appearing weekly!).  The Embedded Patreon provides the funds for guest mics, transcripts (new and old), and new shirt designs. Thank you very much to the supporters. Thank you to our listeners for raising over $5000 for Dig...

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 . Her graduate work was in using photogrammetry  to build models. Kathleen works for GrokStyle , a company that lets you find furniture you like based on what you see....

Leonardo Laguna Ruiz of Vult spoke with us about modelling electronics, modular synthesizers, and modulating sound. We talked in detail about applied digital signal processing. Leonardo's website is www.vult-dsp.com . Check out the Freak Filter , the user manual alone is a course in signal processing. You can buy finished or DIY versions on vult-dsp.com/store .  The physical hardware is a Eurorack...

Helen Leigh (@helenleigh) joined us to talk about music, electronics, books, and starting a new job at CrowdSupply (@crowd_supply) . Helen was previously on Embedded #261: Blowing Their Fragile Little Minds where we talked about subversive geography, her book The Crafty Kid's Guide to DIY Electronics , and the mini.mu musical gloves . Helen has a book coming out in 2021 about DIY Music Tech includ...

Becky Worledge of the Qt Company (@qtproject) spoke with us about application frameworks, organizing large code bases, and automotive regulations. The best place to get started with Qt is the getting started page: doc.qt.io/qt-5/gettingstarted.html   Or skip that and head straight for the code: github.com/qt Maybe backtrack to see what is available: qt.io/product/features Hmm, was there talk of Qt...

Seth Hillbrand (@SethHillbrand) , lead developer for KiCAD (@kicad_pcb) , spoke with us about open source development, EDA tools, pronunciation, and inclusion. Check out KiCAD! Seth's company provides support for KiCAD ( kipro-pcb.com , @kiproeda ).  

John McMaster (@johndmcmaster) told us about the process of opening up chips to see how the processors are structured and what the firmware says.  See John's website for information on getting started (as well as digging much deeper). John has given some interesting Hardwear.io talks including Capturing Mask ROMs and Taming Hydrofluoric Acid to Extract Firmware . His talks and many others are avai...

Chris and Elecia discuss transcripts, lightsabers, seashells, python, numpy, matlab and how to get into embedded systems development. Embedded show transcripts are available at embedded.fm/transcripts   Elecia's origami github repository includes a python script for generating origami shell folding patterns. The paper described was Analysis of Shell Coiling: General Problems by David M. Raup from...