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Embedded
Embedded is the show for people who love gadgets. Making them, breaking them, and everything in between. Weekly interviews with engineers, educators, and enthusiasts. Find the show, blog, and more at embedded.fm.
Episodes
Embedded477: One Thousand New Instructions
477: One Thousand New Instructions Embedded.fm Download Kwabena Agyeman joined Chris and Elecia to talk about optimization, cameras, machine learning, and…
Embedded476: Sidetracked by Mining the Moon
Lee Wilkins joined Chris and Elecia to talk about The Open Source Hardware Association, the Open Hardware Summit, and zine culture. The Open Source Hardware…
Embedded475: Stuffed Animal or Colleague
Chris and Elecia talk about the Embedded Online Conference, their experience learning Zephyr, and some listener questions. Elecia will be presenting on…
Embedded474: It's All Chaos and Horror
Logic gates and origami? Professor Inna Zakharevich joined us to talk about Turing complete origami crease patterns. We started talking about Turing…
Embedded473: Math Is Not the Answer
Philip Koopman joined us to talk about how modulo 255 vs 256 makes a huge difference in checksum error detection, how to get the most out of your checksum or…
Embedded472: Field of Boxes
Making Embedded Systems, 2nd Edition came out today! Chris and Elecia talk about the changes, the writing, but not the eldritch horror. Then we talk about…
Embedded471: Bicycle Built For Two
Where electronics meets music, there is a board called Daisy. Created by ElectroSmith, Andrew Ikenberry, the goal of the board is to teach computers to sing…
Embedded470: Upping the Chaos Level
Helen Leigh joined us to talk about putting together conferences (including Teardown 2024), indie hardware producers (including via Crowd Supply), and building…
Embedded469: Saving the World Is Not a Hobby
Chris and Elecia chat with each other about motor encoder reading methods, conferences coming up, soldering irons, schematic reviews, looking for a new job…
Embedded468: Designed to Kill All Humans
Anders Nielsen joined us to talk about why the 6502 is the best processor. Anders also sells 65uino kits on his store: imania.dk. For more explanation of what…
Embedded467: Temporary Axolotl
Chris and Elecia talk about cars, fleeting moments of fame, their year, and the sorry state of tools in the embedded space. Chris became internet famous for…
Embedded466: Attacked by a Goose on the Way to the Office
Ralph Hempel spoke with us about the development of Lego Mindstorms from hacking the initial interface to running Debian Linux as well as programming…
Embedded465: Dinosaurs, Pirates, Spaceships
Yanina Bellini Saibene joined us to discuss teaching, localization, barriers to learning coding, and global communities. Yani works on Teach Tech Together…
Embedded464: Please Make This Monster Look Scary
Chris and Elecia talk about their favorite processors, their breakfast preferences, large language model ethics, presents, and Eeyore's birthday. Elecia’s new…
Embedded463: Layers of Band-Aids
Kevin Lannen is an embedded systems engineer making powered wheelchairs safer. This sounded interesting to us. Kevin works at LUCI Mobility (luci.com). Check…
Embedded462: Spontaneously High Performing
Marian Petre spoke to us about her research on how to make software developers better at developing software. Marian is an Emeritus Professor of the School of…
Embedded461: Am I the Cow in This Scenario?
Chris and Elecia discuss the pros and cons of completing one project or starting a dozen. Elecia’s 2nd edition of Making Embedded Systems is coming out in…
Embedded460: I Don’t Care What Your Math Says
Author, engineer, manager, and professor, Dr. Greg Wilson joined Elecia to talk about teaching, science in computer science, ethics, and policy. The request…
Embedded459: Ideas Have to Come From Somewhere
Professor AnnMarie Thomas spoke with us about playful learning through joy, whimsy, surprise, and meeting new people. We also spoke with AnnMarie about how…
Embedded458: Fiddling, DIY, and Cursing
Trond Snekvik spoke with us about developing VSCode extensions and Bluetooth meshes. Trond is a Staff Software Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor. Nordic’s…
Embedded457: Rubber Duck Phase Cancellation
Chris and Elecia chat about their ongoing efforts to create and learn. Then they answer some listener questions. Duck quacks do echo but the echoes seem to…
Embedded456: Left Right Symmetry of a Banana
Damien George spoke with us about developing with and for MicroPython while Elecia tries not to spill all the secrets about her client. To start at the…
Embedded455: Snaps!
Natalie Friedman joins us to discuss when, where, how, and why robots should wear clothing. Natalie is a PhD candidate at Cornell Tech. Natalie’s website is…
Embedded454: Printf Hello
Uri Shaked surprises us with a chat about silicon design when we were expecting to talk about a web-based board simulator. If you want to try your hand at…
Embedded453: Too Dumb to Quit
Nathan Jones has been talking about building command line interfaces, good design practices in C, creating MCU boards, wielding the PIC of destiny, and going…
Embedded452: Numbers on Computers Are Weird
Julia Evans spoke with us about how computers compute. We discussed number representation including floating point as well as Julia’s extensive collection of…
Embedded451: From Concept to Launch
Phillip Johnston of Embedded Artistry, Tyler Hoffman of Memfault, and Elecia White discuss the software tasks that tend to fall through the cracks after the…
Embedded450: Swimming Through Nutritious Slurry
Kari Love joined us to talk about soft robotics, robots in religion, and squishiness. Kari co-authored Soft Robotics: A DIY Introduction to Squishy, Stretchy…
Embedded449: Soldering the Ukulele
Chris and Elecia talk about internetting your thing, motivating yourself with cheese, a pile of scrabble letters, an electric ouija board, and a supervillain…
Embedded448: Little Squiggles All Around
Carl Bugeja makes actuators out of PCBs, puts them to work flapping origami bird wings (or moving robot rovers), and takes videos of the whole process. Oh, and…
Embedded447: All Sorts of Weird Problems
We spoke with Chris Gammell about IoT, podcasting, relaxing, and learning. Chris works at Golioth.io. They have a neat blog that talks about reference designs…
Embedded446: World’s Best PB&J
Chris and Elecia talk about ChatGPT, conferences, online compilers, and Ardupilot. Compiler Explorer: godbolt.org (and function pointer example) Jupyter…
Embedded445: I Do Not Like Blinking
We spoke with Charlyn Gonda about making things glow, dealing with imposter syndrome, and using origami. Charlyn’s website is charlyn.codes, the projects we…
Embedded444: It Is If You Do It Wrong
Peter Griffin spoke with us about operant boxes, juggling many projects, getting into embedded systems, and bottle rockets. When we talked about 3D printing…
Embedded443: Vexing Machines
Chris and Elecia talk about photons, comets, patterns, other flying objects, and cameras. Chris uses PixInsight for processing and has an Ioptron Sky Tracker…
Embedded442: I Do Like Musical Robots
Adafruit’s Liz Clark (BlitzCityDIY) spoke with us about MIDI, music, and tutorials. Liz’s Adafruit Tutorials include MIDI for Makers CircuitPython Trombone…
Embedded441: Ear Goobers
Chris and Elecia talk with Mark Smith (aka SmittyHalibut and N6MTS) about amateur radio, interconnect standards, and podcasting. Mark is a host of the Ham…
Embedded440: Condemned to Being Perfect
Chris and Elecia talk to Jeff Gable and Luca Ingianni of the Agile Embedded podcast, discussing the definition of Agile, agreeing about some things, and…
Embedded439: Ditches and Psychology
Chris and Elecia talk about house maintenance, blinking LEDs, paper engineering and more. Cutting Mobius Strips Video: Tadashi Tokieda cuts various…
Embedded438: There Is Nothing That Is True
We talked with John Taylor about his book, how to handle data, and the open/closed principle of software development. John’s book is Patterns in the Machine…
Embedded437: Chirping With the Experts
Daniel Situnayake joined us to talk about AI, embedded systems, his new book on the previously mentioned topics, and writing technical books. Daniel’s book is…
Embedded436: 20 GOTO 10
Chris Svec joined us to talk about kids programming and how well the Joel Test has held up. Svec’s son (“The Kid”) developed an interest in programming by…
Embedded435: Sad Lack of Gnomes
Chris and Elecia take an in-studio vacation, chatting about what they’ve been doing. A few technical topics came up, entirely unintentionally.Shirts are on…
Embedded359: You Can Never Have Too Many Socks (Repeat)
Thea Flowers creates open source and open hardware craft synthesizers that use Circuit Python for customization. She also writes about the internals of the…
Embedded434: I Love It, It’s Exhausting
Sarah Withee spoke with us about using an artificial pancreas, learning many programming languages, and FIRST robotics.More about the Open Artificial Pancreas…
Embedded433: Getting Mad About Capes
Michael Gielda spoke with us about Renode, an open source embedded systems simulator. It also simulates large distributed systems and network communications…
Embedded432: Robot Bechdel Test
Martha Wells is a science fiction and fantasy author. She spoke with us about her books (including Murderbot Diaries!), writing, and creating fantastical…
Embedded431: Becoming More of a Smurf
Jasper van Woudenberg spoke with us about hacking hardware, writing a technical book, and ethics.The Hardware Hacking Handbook was written by Jasper and Colin…