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...

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 put together...

Professor Angela Sodemann of @ASU spoke with us about new ways of teaching, robotics, and haptic displays. Angela’s robotics courses can be found at RoboGrok.com, including the parts kit. Note that they focus on creating usable robotics as well as...

Noah Leon made a film: Love Notes to Newton. It features the people who love and the people who built the Apple Newton. We spoke with him about the Newton and about filmmaking.Noah runs Moosefuel Media. He wanted to mention...

Helen Leigh (@helenleigh) is an author, education writer and maker. She spoke with us about making learning fun (and subversive).Her latest book is The Crafty Kid's Guide to DIY Electronics, out in November 2018.The instrument gloves were the mi.mu (full...

Christopher (@stoneymonster) and Elecia (@logicalelegance) talks about vacations for learning and hobbies then answered listener questions.Chris’ toys include the Prusa I3 Mk3 and the UAD Arrow.Elecia likes Camille Fournier’s book, The Manager’s Path. She also got to plug her own...

Brandon Wilson (@brandonlwilson) shared his stories about hacking TI calculators (and other things).TICalc.org has the latest on getting started yourself including Z80 assemblers, or start on Brandon’s website: brandonw.netBradon will be speaking at Hardwear.io, a security conference for the hardware...

We spoke with Axel Poschmann of DarkMatter LLC (@GuardedbyGenius) about embedded security.For a great in-depth introduction, Axel suggested Christof Paar’s Introduction to Cryptography class, available on YouTube. We also talked about ENISA’s Hardware Threat Landscape and Good Practices Guide.Axel will...

Derek Fronek spoke with us about FIRST robotics. His TechHOUNDS (@TechHOUNDS868) team is based in Carmel, Indiana. They won the state competition and placed 5th in the high school FRC championship.Derek mentioned the roboRIO controller board, TalonSRX speed controller, and...