22: Minecraft is the new Apple II

From embedded.fm 7 years ago in Podcasts

Jordan Hart from Digital Media Academy joined Elecia to discuss ways to make science, technology, and engineering fun for kids through Minecraft, Arduino robotics, and music. DMA video: Robotics and Electrical Engineering with Arduino Ted talk: The child-driven education which describes the "method of the grandmother" teaching style.Georgia Tech online CS Master's degreeSincere apologies to fans...

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359: You Can Never Have Too Many Socks

From embedded.fm 2 days ago in Podcasts

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...

358: Woodturning Influencer

From embedded.fm 1 week ago in Podcasts

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...

357: How Do You Think Waffles Work?

From embedded.fm 2 weeks ago in Podcasts

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),...

253: We’ll Pay Them in Fun (Repeat)

From embedded.fm 3 weeks ago in Podcasts

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.Kathleen works for GrokStyle, a company that lets you find furniture...

356: Deceive and Manipulate You

From embedded.fm 1 month ago in Podcasts

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...

355: Favorite Ways to Make Noises

From embedded.fm 1 month ago in Podcasts

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...

354: Better Snowmen in Finland

From embedded.fm 2 months ago in Podcasts

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...

353: Red for the Ones That Might Blow Up

From embedded.fm 2 months ago in Podcasts

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).

352: Baby's First Hydrofluoric Acid

From embedded.fm 2 months ago in Podcasts

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...

351: Dextral or Sinistral

From embedded.fm 2 months ago in Podcasts

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...