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Embedded
I am Elecia White alongside Christopher White. We're here to chat about the interests, careers, and lives of engineers, artists, educators and makers. Our diverse guest list includes names you may have heard and engineers working quietly in the trenches. Either way, they are knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and inspiring. We'd love to share our enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM).
Episodes
Embedded421: Paint the Iceberg Yellow
Chris Hobbs talks with Elecia about safety critical systems. Safety-critical systems keep humans alive. Writing software for these embedded systems carries a…
Embedded420: Googly Eyes and Top Hats
Dan White, CEO of Filament Games, spoke to us about educational games, how to make play part of learning, and simulating robots. We also discussed what makes a…
Embedded314: Why Are Wings Needed in Space? (Repeat)
Mohit Bhoite makes functional electronic sculptures from components and brass wire. We spoke with him on the hows and whys of making art. Mohit's sculptures…
Embedded419: Fission Chips
Eric Schlaepfer and Windell Oskay are the authors of Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components. We discussed the inner beauty of a number of…
Embedded418: Answer Me These Questions Three
Chris and Elecia question embedded systems then answer listener questions about embedded systems. They mostly agree except about one thing which, after some…
Embedded417: I Don't Know How My Brain Works
Alexandra Covor spoke with us about engineering, making, drawing, school, and what it means to be an artist. Alex's projects are on GitHub and Hackster.io. Her…
Embedded416: EEs Are From PIC, SWEs Are From Arm
John Catsoulis is the founder of Udamonic and creator of the Forth-based Scamp development board. He spoke with us about Forth, electrical engineering, and…
Embedded415: Rolling Computers
Lead Solution Architect at Cymotive, Benny Meisels spoke with us about implementing embedded software security in cars. The discussion touches ECUs, IoT…
Embedded414: Puff, the Magically Secure Dragon
Laura Abbott of Oxide Computing spoke with us about a silicon bug in the ROM of the NXP LPC55, affecting the TrustZone. More information about the two issues…
Embedded413: Puppy-Like Glee
Chris and Elecia chat about practice, software quality, and empathy for seemingly unmotivated team members. Elecia is teaching another cohort of Making…
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412: Inductors Don't Have Feelings
Tom Anderson returned to the show to describe how transistors and passives work. We discuss everything from vacuum tubes to diodes to transistors (PNP and NPN)…
Embedded411: Batteries Get Upset
Ethan Slattery joined us to talk about animals, animal trackers, and how they work. Ethan works for Wildlife Computers. They use the Argos Network for data…
Embedded305: Humans Have a Terrible Spec Sheet (Repeat)
Amanda "w0z" Wozniak spoke with us about her career through biomedical engineering and startups. Amanda contributed a chapter to Building Open Source Hardware…
Embedded410: Emacs From the Future
Chris and Elecia chat about tools, interrupts, and general happenings. Thank you to Newark for supporting the show! The part that was not guessed was an RF…
Embedded409: A Better World
Dr. Shirley Davis spoke with us about her book: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion For Dummies. Dr. Davis is a speaker and consultant on diversity, equity, and…
Embedded295: In the Key of Lime (Repeat)
This week we talk about CircuitPython with Adafruit's Kattni Rembor and Scott Shawcroft. The suggested first board is CircuitPlayground Express with LEDs…
Embedded408: Room In Your Heart for Your Robot
Machine learning engineer and science fiction author S. B. Divya joined us to talk about artificial intelligence, robotics, and humanity. Divya's first…
Embedded407: Boards Are Like Sandwiches
Mihir Shah of Royal Circuits joined us to talk about how PCBs are fabricated and how companies are funded. Mihir was CEO of InspectAR before they were acquired…
Embedded406: R2D2 Is a Trash Can
Jorvon Moss (Odd Jayy) joined us to talk about making robots, steampunk aesthetics, uploading consciousness to AIs, and the importance of drawing. You can find…
Embedded405: Bacta Tank for Your Brain
Chris and Elecia talk about burnout, a SPI + RTOS bug, newsletters, receiving feedback, Elecia's class, and listener projects. Elecia's Making Embedded Systems…
Embedded404: Uppercase A, Lowercase R M
Reinhard Keil joined us to talk about creating the Keil compiler, the 8051 processor, Arm's CMSIS, and the new cloud-based Keil Studio IDE. MDK-Community is a…
Embedded403: Engineers Are a Difficult People
Shawn Hymel spoke to us about creating education videos and written tutorials; marketing by and for engineers; and bowties. You can find Shawn teaching FPGAs…
Embedded402: We Are a Lazy Species
Chris Svec of iRobot and Phillip Johnston of Embedded Artistry join Christopher and Elecia to talk about the hows and whys of estimating software schedules…
Embedded278: Bricks' Batteries Last Forever (Repeat)
Matthew Liberty shared good advice for lowering power. We talk about different ways to measure current (Matt has a nice write-up) and things software can do to…
Embedded401: Oil and Water
Miro Samek joins us to discuss designing systems, state machines, and teaching courses. Miro's company is Quantum Leaps (state-machine.com) which provides…
Embedded400: A Really Long Time
Christopher and Elecia celebrate their 400th episode by discussing what has (and hasn't) changed in embedded systems over the last 9 years
Embedded399: Hey, What's Going On?
Jen Costillo joined us to talk about voice acting, reverse engineering, podcasting, and dance. Jen's podcast is the Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast, found…
Embedded398: Clocks Get Into Everything
Tom Anderson explains radio frequency electronics (RF). Elecia and Christopher try to keep up. We also took a detour into bass guitar electronics. One…
Embedded290: Rule of Thumbs (Repeat)
We spoke with Phillip Johnston (@mbeddedartistry) of Embedded Artistry about consulting, writing, and learning. In the Embedded Artistry welcome page, there is…
Embedded293: Skateboard Tricks (Repeat)
Limor Fried of Adafruit spoke with us about engineering, education, and business. Some new boards we talked about include the PyGamer and PyBadge (which also…
Embedded396: Untangle the Mess
Uri Shaked shows us Wokwi, his board and processor simulator. We checked out Arduino code in GDB and then looked at his simulator for the Cortex-M0 Raspberry…
Embedded395: I Can No Longer Play Ping Pong
Tyler Hoffman joined us to talk about developing developer tools and how to drag your organization out of the stone age. You can use GDB and Python together?…
Embedded394: Being Four-Year-Olds
Professor HyunJoo Oh of GeorgiaTech spoke to us about paper machines, paper mechanical movements, paper sensors, paper tiny Jansen Strandbeests, and paper art…
Embedded393: Don't Drive My Baby Off the Table
Professor Carlotta Berry from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology joined us to talk about robotics, PID tuning, engineering education, ethics, her book, and…
Embedded286: Twenty Cans of Gas (Repeat)
Colin O'Flynn (@colinoflynn) spoke with us about security research, power analysis, and hotdogs. Colin's company is NewAE and you can see his Introduction to…
Embedded392: It Was C++ the Whole Time!
Debra Ansell joined us to talk about making light up accessories, patenting ideas, and sharing projects. Debra's project website is geekmomprojects.com, she's…
Embedded391: The Lesser of Two Weevils
Chris and Elecia chat about their current projects and ideas. Elecia is teaching Making Embedded Systems at Classpert. The course is based on her book with…
Embedded390: Irresponsible At the Time
Tyler Hoffman joined us to discuss the issues associated with embedded devices at consumer scale. We talked about firmware update, device management, and…
Embedded389: Blobs Are Not Stressful
Alpenglow's Carrie Sundra spoke with us about frivolous circuits, solder live streaming, and yarn. Alpenglow Industries sells frivolous circuits, some…
Embedded275: Don't Do What the Computer Tells You (Repeat)
Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) shared truly weird responses from AIs. Her website is AIWeirdness.com where you can find machine-learning-generated ideas for…
Embedded388: Brains Generate EMF
Alan Cohen joined us to talk about brain waves, medical product development, open source, and helpful engineering. Alan has been working on VolksEEG…
Embedded387: Bucket of Spiders
Chris and Elecia discuss civic duties, the CAN bus, fulfilling Kickstarter orders, and the answers to a series of questions about embedded systems. Elecia was…
Embedded235: Imagine That, Suckers! (Repeat)
We spoke to author Robin Sloan about his books and near-future science fiction. Robin wrote Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore and Sourdough. Find Robin on…
Embedded230: What the Hell Is Wrong with Unicorns? (Repeat)
Sunshine Jones spoke with us about synthesizers, electronics, and philosophy. Find him on twitter @Sunshine_Jones and instagram at sunshine_jones_ Sunshine's…
Embedded386: Not Managing Robots
Ingo Muschenetz spoke with us about software, management, podcasts, and interacting with people. Ingo's LinkedIn page Ingo works for Axway, they are hiring…
Embedded385: I Just Wanted an Industrial Arm
Jeremy Fielding spoke with us about mechanical engineering, robotics, robot operating system, YouTube, and solving problems. You can find all of Jeremy's links…
Embedded384: What's a Board File?
Liam Cadigan joined us to talk about founding a successful startup from a college capstone project. Liam is a co-founder of InspectAR and worked on the board…
Embedded271: Shell Scripts for the Soul (Repeat)
Alex Glow filled our heads with project ideas. Alex is the Resident Hardware Nerd at Hackster.io. Her page is glowascii and you might want to see Archimedes…
Embedded383: The Monkey's Not Gonna Work
Mario Marchese (aka Mario the Maker Magician) spoke with us about robots performing magic, humans performing magic, and writing a book about making magic. We…
Embedded382: Playing In the Desert
Leah Buechley spoke with us about the intersection of computer science and art. She is an associate professor in the computer science department of the…
Embedded381: Mass Sponge Migration
Chris (@stoneymonster) and Elecia (@logicalelegance) discuss Blender, Make, TCP/IP, and listener questions (mostly about the podcast itself). Lightweight IP…
Embedded380: Trending Toward Telepathy
Adelle Lin (@Adellelin) spoke with us about wearables, art, playfulness, and getting together in virtual reality. Adelle's website is touchtech.io. For some VR…
Embedded379: Monstrous Cable Corporation
Tom Anderson (@tomacorp) joined us to talk about floating pins, ADCs, and teaching and learning things. Tom mentioned Horowitz and Hill's Art of Electronics…
Embedded269: Ultra-Precise Death Ray (Repeat)
Alan Cohen (@proto2product) wrote a great book about taking an idea and making it into a product. We spoke with him about the development process and the…
Embedded378: Pair-enting Programming
Nitya Narasimhan (@nitya) spoke with us about visualizing learning, visual storytelling, sketchnotes, and finding a job that satisfies. Nitya's sketchnotes are…
EmbeddedBONUS: Your Cat's Not Part of the Band
On this quick bonus episode, Elecia and Christopher chat about their various recent projects, some of which have just been released into the wild…
Embedded377: Robot at the Park
Erin Kennedy (@RobotGrrl) spoke with us about learning new things, nice robots at the beach, lighting up fog voxels, and being part of the maker community…
Embedded376: Left Half of My Brain Is Digital
From his view in retirement, David Comer spoke with us about continuing to learn, staying engaged in an engineering career, and how the Galileo memory module…
Embedded375: Hiding in Your Roomba
Brittany Postnikoff (@Straithe) spoke with us about scary robots, neat stickers, and contributing to open source projects. Brittany's website is straithe.com…