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 Side-Channel Power Analysis video as an intro to his training course. Or you can buy your own...

Carlos Maltzahn joined us to talk about graduate studies in open source software, research incubators, and how software development tools can be used to aid the reproduction of scientific results. Carlos is the founder and director of the Center for...

Ori Bernstein (@oribernstein) joined us to talk about the dielectric constants of foods, reflective energy steering, and smart microwaves. Elecia got a little silly.Ori works at Level Hot Pantry for more about the smart microwave, check out his !!ConWest talk....

Jennifer Wang (@jenbuilds) spoke with us about machine learning, magic wands, and getting into hardware.For more detail about her magic wand build, you can see Jen’s Hackaday SuperCon talk or her !!ConWest talk. The github repo is well documented with...

We spoke with Laughlin Barker of OpenROV (@OpenROV) about underwater drones, underwater navigation, underwater exploration of the Antarctic, and extraordinarily large (underwater) jellyfish.Watch this video of a Trident ROV being eaten by a shark… yes, you get to see the...

Combining a love of engineering with a love of words, Jenny List (@Jenny_Alto) is a contributing editor at Hackaday (@Hackaday). Jenny’s writing at Hackaday including Debunking the Drone Versus Plane Hysteria and Ooops, Did We Just Close An Airport Over...

Chris (@stoneymonster) and Elecia (@logicalelegance) talk about design patterns, conferences, and Molotov cocktails.Wrapper /  Decorator  / Facade Observer aka subscriber/publisher (caveat)Delegation and Dependency InjectionModel View Controller (very important if somewhat dated UI pattern)PyFlakes is a static Python checkerKiCAD Conference is...

Valve's Alan Yates (@vk2zay) spoke with us about the science and technology of virtual reality. Elecia looked at the iFixIt Teardown of the HTC Vive system as she was unwilling to take apart Christopher's system. Alan shared some of his other favorite reverse...

Patrick Yeon (@patyeon) spoke with us about nonprofit spaceships then asked our opinions about embedded software.Pat is working for something something nonprofit space something something. To fill in some of the blanks, apply for a job on NonprofitSpaceship.org. Pat was...

Matthew Liberty (@mliberty1) 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 decrease power consumption.Sleeping is critical, of course, as is choosing your clock...

Jie Qi (@qijie) spoke with us about making paper-based electronics (@Chibitronics) and learning about patent law (via @Patentpandas). Jie Qi is the founder of Chibitronics, a crafting electronics platform that uses paper and stickers to create (and teach) circuits. Building...

Jesse Rutherford (@BentTronics) gave us an in-depth look at the 555 timer IC (wiki). Jesse runs Bent-tronics.com and wrote The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to the 555 Timer (Amazon).Some great 555 projects: 555 Decimal Adding Machine 555 found in a drill...

Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) shared truly weird responses from AIs. Her website is AIWeirdness.com where you can find machine-learning-generated ideas for paint colors, ice cream, and cocktails (and many other things). We never said they were good ideas.Janelle’s FAQ will help...

Ivan Kravets (@ikravets)  spoke with us about PlatformIO (@PlatformIO_Org), IDEs, embedded libraries, and RISC-V.PlatformIO is an editor, an integrated development environment with debugging and unit testing, and/or a library index. Its goal is to make embedded development easier and more...

Chris and Elecia chat with each other about the new year. All is fine until she starts quizzing him about some language details of his new project.Many object-oriented resources suggest using composition (has-a) over inheritance (is-a-type-of) (wiki). Where do swift...

Chris Gammell (@Chris_Gammell) of The Amp Hour (@TheAmpHour) joined us to talk about the state of the industry, listeners, guests, and life in general.Embedded’s accounting episode (150: Sad Country Song)Contextual Electronics Consulting forum (requires you to apply) Remote work250: Yolo...

Alex Glow (@glowascii) 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 the AI robot owl and the Hardware 101 channel. They have many sponsored...

James Grenning (@jwgrenning) joined us to talk about Test Driven Development, dealing with legacy code, and cleaning out very large pipes. James is the author of Test Driven Development for Embedded C. If you want to take his live online...

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 eleven deadly sins of product development. We did not talk about ultra-precise death...

Christopher White resurrects an Apple ][+ with his brother Matthew White. This is a show about the software Christopher and Matthew wrote when they were kids and the hardware they wrote it on.Matthew's favorite fictional robot (we should have asked): Venus...

After many bouts of lightning round, we finally got our lightning questions answered by Eric Brunning (@deeplycloudy). Eric is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas Tech University specializing in storm electrification and lightning .You can hear some of Eric’s...

Lindsey Kuper (@lindsey) spoke with us about !!Con West, being a new professor, and reading technical journals.The call for speakers for !!Con West is open until November 30, 2018. The conference will be in Santa Cruz, CA on February 23-24.Lindsey’s...

Chris (@stoneymonster) and Elecia (@logicalelegance) talk about conferences, simulations, and future episodes.Simulation/Emulation: QEMU and Renode. Chris also noted there were QEMU for STM32 instances such as this one from beckus.For conferences, we named several but had no particularly useful advice....

Anita Pagin gave us an insider’s view of being a recruiter.Anita recently started at Carbon3D and is recruiting for software and hardware.Anita also does career coaching on the side. Given the advice she gave us for free, imagine what she...

Chris Svec (@christophersvec) returns to chat about recruiting for embedded jobs and to help us answer listener questions. Also, he’s looking for engineers to join him at iRobot.Want to get into embedded and don’t know how? We did a show...