Philana Benton (@TechnoPHILiANA) spoke with us about mentoring: how to be a good mentor, what to expect, and what not to do.If you’d like to try mentoring, sign up for Philana’s DivTekSpace (divtekspace.org). You can do a resume review, a...

Joel Sherrill (JoelSherrill) spoke with us about choosing embedded operating systems and why open source RTEMS (RTEMS_OAR) is a good choice.Embedded #307: Big While Loop: Chris and Elecia talk about when and where they’d use RTOSsEmbedded #93: Delicious Gumbo: Joel...

Jay Carlson (@jaydcarlson), author of The Amazing $1 Microcontroller, joined us to talk about comparing microcontrollers and determining our biases. This was an in-depth comparison of different micro features.Jay is an electrical engineer specializing in electronics design and embedded programming...

Matt Godbolt (@mattgodbolt) joined us to talk about assembly code, becoming a verb, 6502s, exploring compilers, and application binary interfaces.Compiler Explorer can be found at godbolt.org. The code is on github (compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer).Matt also has jsbeeb, a BBC Micro (6502) simulator....

Bailey Steinfadt (@baileysteinfadt) spoke with us about the makerspaces, communities, following many paths, and misbehaving robots.Bailey works at Dojo Five and Stone Path Engineering.Area 515 is a non-profit maker space in the Des Moines, Iowa area. They supported their local...

Doug Harriman of Simplexity (@SimplexityPD) spoke with us about motors, controllers, and designing mechatronic systems.Simplexity (or if you want to contact them)Doug recommends Control Systems Engineering by Norman S. Nise. Elecia recommends Notes on Diffy Qs by Jiří Lebl from...

Dr. Katy Huff (@katyhuff) spoke with us about nuclear engineering, effective software development, and the apropos command.Katy wrote an O’Reilly book describing Python software development to scientists: Effective Computation in Physics: Field Guide to Research with Python. She has been...

Chris Svec (@christophersvec) chatted with us about going from engineer to manager and working from home.Chris had many book recommendations (these are affiliate links):Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green (fiction)Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel PinkThe...

Matt Godbolt (@mattgodbolt) spoke with us about settling arguments with Compiler Explorer.March Micro Madness is here!Compiler Explorer comes in different flavors:https://rust.godbolt.org/https://d.godbolt.org/https://go.godbolt.org/https://gcc.godbolt.org/You can see the beta version by putting a beta on the end: https://gcc.godbolt.org/beta/This a fully open source project. You...

Kate Stewart (@_kate_stewart) of the Linux Foundation spoke with us about the Zephyr operating system (@ZephyrIoT).Some Zephyr docs:Getting Started GuideSupported boardsTwo projects using Zephyr:Open Artificial Pancreas System (openaps.org)Zephyr on a Hearing Aid talk at Embedded Linux Conference 2019

Christopher (@stoneymonster) and Elecia (@logicalelegance) discuss listener questions about USB, thesis projects, prototype iterations, motivation, and processor cores.Chris has been using audiomovers.com to mix audio remotely in real time.

Daniel Situnayake (@dansitu) spoke with us about machine learning on microcontrollers.Dan is the author of TinyML: Machine Learning with TensorFlow Lite on Arduino and Ultra-Low-Power Microcontrollers. You can read the first several chapters at tinymlbook.com.TinyML is a part of TensorFlow...

Erin Talvitie of Harvey Mudd College spoke with us about machine learning, hallucinating data, and making good decisions based on imperfect predictions.Paper we discussed: Self-Correcting Models for Model-Based Reinforcement LearningErin’s grant: Using Imperfect Predictions to Make Good DecisionsFor a reinforcement...

John Saunders (@NYCCNC) spoke with us about building a Johnny Five robot on his NYC CNC YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/saunixcomp).You can find all of the Johnny Five build videos on a playlist or check out the NYC CNC page. As mentioned,...

Adam Wolf (@adamwwolf) of Wayne and Layne (www.wayneandlayne.com) spoke with us about making kits, museum exhibit engineering, working on KiCad, and extraterrestrial art philosophy.Adam has a personal blog on www.feelslikeburning.com/blog/ as well as a website adamwolf.org. Adam co-wrote Make: Lego...

Professor Ayanna Howard of Georgia Tech joins us to talk about robotics including how androids interact with humans. Some of her favorite robot include the Darwin, the Nao, and, for home-hacking, the Darwin Mini.Ayanna has a profile on EngineerGirl.org, a...

Carmen Parisi spoke with us about changing jobs from a semiconductor specialist at TI to an electrical engineering generalist at Wasatch Photonics.Carmen was previously on Embedded 216: Bavarian Folk Metal and formerly was the host of The Engineering Commons podcastCarmen...

Ramiro Montes De Oca spoke with us about modular electronics, chiplets, and his company aThing.ioathing.ioChipletsProject Tinkertoy (movie) is a 1953 US Navy project on automated manufacturing of modular electronics.Ramiro mentioned his accelerator: CoFoundersLab Accelerator

Jason Derleth of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program spoke with us about what it takes to win a NIAC award.NIAC program homepageSome of the accepted NIAC studiesKey dates: Note: Solicitations open in June 2020!Apply to NIACA guide for NSPIRES,...

Chris Gammell (@Chris_Gammell) of The Amp Hour and Contextual Electronics joined Christopher and Elecia to talk about firmware, learning, and books.Chris is the host of The Amp Hour, a podcast about electronics and electrical engineering. Chris is also the founder...

Chris (@stoneymonster) and Elecia (@logicalelegance) chat about the year 2038, their projects, their new finds, and future shows.The year 2038 problem is real. Elecia read some of this tweet thread about it.Single file libraries list on github: (https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs), including the...

Dennis Jackson spoke with us about making the career shift from software to embedded.Dennis buys James Grenning’s Test Driven Development in Embedded C for his new hires and often recommends Elecia’s Making Embedded Systems. His tip that everyone should know...

Darryl Yong (@dyong) is a mathematics professor at Harvey Mudd College (and former classmate of ours, also at HMC). He is working with HMC’s Clinic Program, putting real industry projects in front of teams of college students. He’s also teaching...

We were joined in the studio by the Evil Mad Scientists Lenore Edman (@1lenore) and Windell Oskay (@oskay).Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories (@EMSL) produces the disintegrated 555 Timer kit and 741 Op-Amp kit. These were made in conjunction with Eric Schlaepfer,...

Professor Barbara Liskov spoke with us about the Liskov substitution principle, data abstraction, software crisis, and winning a Turing Award.See Professor Liskov’s page at MIT, including her incredible CV.