537: Quiet Time Innovation

Embedded · Oct 29, 2026 · 1h 19m

Christopher and Elecia catch up on life, firmware consulting, daydreams, and projects.

Elecia thinks aloud about low-stimulation education toys. Christopher shares his experience using AI tools to build a custom Swift metronome app to train off-beat timing, specifically how he turned the project into a structured language lesson plan. They discuss using Google's NotebookLM on the Embedded.fm transcripts, award wins, handling guest self-invites, contract engineering advice for high schoolers, security key vulnerabilities, and how moving from desktop to embedded requires viewing your hardware…