Kathleen Sidenblad discusses her career through Silicon Valley, from engineer at Systems Control Inc in 1976 to VP of Engineering today.For more about Kathy, check out this Storehouse interview.  

Ben Krasnow of the Applied Science YouTube channel talks with us about scanning electron microscopes, generating liquid nitrogen, and cookies. Hackaday Conference is Nov 14-15, 2015 in SF, CA! Call for proposals. (Ben and Elecia are Hackaday Prize Judges.)Contact Ben through twitter: @BenKrasnowApplied...

Morgan Allen (@captain_morgan) spoke with us about Sphero and Node.JS. This is all not-so-secretly a discussion of the BB8 robot.Correction: Despite Elecia's repeated insistence that these are steppers, she's just wrong. The motors are DC which only makes sense in...

Chris and Elecia discuss listener emails and other assorted topics.Preprocessor funBLE 4.2 writeup from EETimes and the FAQ from Bluetooth.org Drones should follow existing aviation keep out standards (Nick links us to some wiki pages)Automatic dependent surveillance NOTAMFederal Aviation Regulations:...

Glenn Scott (@GlennCScott) spoke with us about API design and techniques for writing good software.Glenn glossed over his bio but it is quite impressive. You can reach him via his PARC page.PARC's Content Centric Networking home: ccnx.org which we talked about in...

Daniel Hienzsch (@rheingoldheavy) spoke with us about reverse engineering a board, bypass capacitors, and serial protocols.Rheingold Heavy is Dan's company for educational boards. The one he started with was the I2C and SPI education board (its fulfilled kickstarter page). He brought us...

Andrei Chichak rejoins us to discuss error handling. Andrei's website says how to reach him or email embedded 'at' chichak.caWindows 10 "Something Happened" errorHitchbotBook Elecia mentioned: Kindness of Strangers by Mike McIntyreElecia's book covers logging module in Creating a System Architecture (pp...

Clive Turvey (Clive1), master of the ST Forums, talks with us about ARM cores and answering difficult technical questions for fun.Some answers:NVIC Interrupts on the same pin numberSTM32F4 PWM channel 3ST's Cortex-M7Books (though we talked more about these being good authors,...

Chris (@stoneymonster) and Elecia (@logicalelegance) chat with each other about drones, listener emails, conferences, fighting robots, and moonlighting.Elecia's Solid talk, an Introduction to Inertial Sensors is on youtube.Washington Post article about Amazon's good drone behavior Apple's IOS security guide (Elecia's security checklist)Photon WiFi...

Natalie Silvanovich (@natashenka) discussed reverse engineering hardware, working on security software, and the fantastic world of Tamagotchis.Natalie's site and blogHardware Excuse Generator Original CCC 2012 talk: Many Tamagotchis Were Harmed in the Making of this PresentationCCC 2013 talk: Even More Tamagotchis Were...

BeagleBone's Jason Kridner (@Jadon) returns to tell us about his new book.Jason co-authored a new book: BeagleBone Cookbook: Software and Hardware Problems and Solutions (or at O'Reilly). His older book is Bad to the Bone: Crafting Electronics Systems with Beaglebone and BeagleBone Black.Previous Embedded.fm episode 60:...

James Grenning (@jwgrenning) returns to discuss TDD, Agile, and web courses. James was on Embedded.fm episode 30: Eventually Lighting Strikes.James' new company is Wingman Software.His excellent book is TDD for Embedded C. James suggested Training From the Back of the Room! as resource to people looking to...

Jen (@RebelbotJen) joined Chris and Elecia to discuss security, privacy, and ethics in wearable computing. There is already a standard for privacy and security: HIPAA (Title II). While not easy to read, it is a reasonable starting place. Another good (but not quite on-point) resource...

We talked to Craig Cook about learning embedded systems. He recently attended an embedded edX course through University of Texas.  The microcontroller and boards used in the courseCraig's next course will be Interactive Python through CourseraAs we discussed Craig's alarm clock...

Chris and Elecia talk about satellites, survey results, and entertainment.ESP8266 has an Arduino IDE (thanks, Karl!)Elecia will be speaking at Solid June 25th and ESC July 22nd.To celebrate the first 100 episodes, Elecia made a spreadsheet of all the guests and topics.Chris read...

Manny Wright of Cortus spoke with us about developing processor IP and how it goes from RTL to silicon. Cortus development platform with a Xilinx Spartan and Arduino Due compatibility.Planet Labs satellite contest winners are announced and Elecia has a cold.

Atmel’s Andreas Eieland (@AndreasMCUguy) spoke with us about low power chips and benchmarks, including tips for measuring and achieving the lowest power possible.EEMBC has a low power benchmark: ULPBench. EETimes wrote up a great introduction to the benchmark. Atmel’s SAM-L...

Mark VanderVoord (@mvandervoord) spoke with us about leading open source projects and test driven development.His site is ThrowTheSwitch.org, a good place to get started with test driven development. Get more info (and a coupon) for his course. Mark's book is Embedded Testing with...

Charles Lohr spoke with us about $5 WiFi (ESP8266), hacking as a hobby, arcade games, and music visualization.Follow Charles on YouTube (or say hello on Google+ and Hackaday.io). To get you started, here are Elecia's favorites:High Res Wifi Signal Mapping (ESP8266) ColorChord 2Wifi Cup (ESP8266)For more...

Micah Elizabeth Scott (@scanlime) spoke with us about Coastermelt, art installations, FadeCandy, teaching electronics to artists, and mental health. Her Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) installation is mesmerizing, some videos. In her Coastermelt project, Micah uses the IDA disassembler.FadeCandy is for sale at...

Star Simpson (@starsandrobots) and Jen Costillo (@RebelbotJen) catch up with Elecia and Chris, discussing how hobby projects have changed over the last two years since the show started. Jen's website: RebelBotStar's website and weekly drone newsletter The Buzzer. Star works at Orion...

Andrei Chichak spoke with us about MISRA-C and ethics. Embedded.fm listener survey (please!)Andrei's has personal website (we failed to talk about his kite aerial photography, it is really neat though) and his company is CBF Systems.Plum Hall C Compiler ValidationPC LintJPL Coding Standards for C...

Chris and Elecia talk about memetics, learning, and processors. Elecia was coy about the Pasadena party May 9th and 10th, but Hackaday announced it so you can invite yourself. She will also be speaking at the Solid conference in June in SF...

Professor Paul Fishwick joined us to talk about CS and STEM education, excellent analogies, and the crossover of art and technology. Paul's work:UT Dallas homepageCreative Automata blog and Modeling For Everyone blogTEDx talkAesthetic Computing, one of his books on art and CS. Online...

Carrie Sundra (@AlpenglowYarn) spoke with us about doing a Kickstarter on her own… and nearly failing.The SkeinMinder is an automation tool for small yarn businesses (and enthusiastic amateurs). When the successful Kickstarter nearly fell short, Carrie candidly wrote about it...