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.

Chris and Elecia talk with each other about non-work activities including music, office rearrangement, and origami.The Solarbotics Squid Hunting CearouSol KitSamson S-patch plus 48-Point Balanced PatchbayWaldorf Blofeld SynthesizerEarthQuaker Devices Rainbow Machine V2 Polyphonic Pitch-shifting Modulator Pedal (with Magic knob)Artelino is...

Mohit Bhoite (@MohitBhoite) makes functional electronic sculptures from components and brass wire. We spoke with him on the hows and whys of making art.Mohit’s sculptures, incliding the Tie Fighter. More on his instagram: mohitbhoiteJiri Prause has a wonderful tutorial on...

Robert J. Lang spoke with us about origami, art, math, and lasers. Robert has many origami books, here is a subset:Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art (the one we talked about most, has the hummingbird crease pattern)Twists,...

Chris and Elecia talked through how security holes can get explored on a fictional product.Thanks to an Embedded listener who enjoyed hearing from Jacob Martinez about helping young adults have access to technology, we have a grant to match donations...

Phoenix Perry (@phoenixperry) spoke with us about physical games. Phoenix is CTO of DoItKits (@DoItKits).  More about Phoenix:Bot PartyHer site: PhoenixPerry.comGoldsmith’s pageShe enjoyed Obelisk Gate by NK JemisinPhysical games are sometimes called Alt Ctrl such as at the Alt Ctrl...

Rick Altherr (@kc8apf) spoke with us about firmware security and mentoring.Rick is a security researcher at Eclypsium. His personal website is kc8apf.net.Rick’s deeply technical dive into reverse engineering car ECUs and FPGA bitstreams was on the Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast,...

Aimee Lucido (@AimeeLucido) is a software engineer and children’s book author. Her first book is Emmy in the Key of Code about music, learning to code, and fitting in. We spoke with Aimee about writing, programming, publishing, and putting beautiful...

Pete Staples of Blue Clover Devices (bcdevices.com, @theiotodm) spoke with us about tools for manufacturing hardware.Some posts and products from Blue Clover Devices:PLT Spec Sheet and ICT SystemHow to write PLT Board Test Plans (using YAML)PCB Design Tips and More...

Jacob Martinez (@jacobotech) spoke with Elecia about DigitalNEST (@DigiNEST), a non-profit devoted to giving high school and college age students access to technology, job training, and career development. DigialNEST is based in the agricultural communities of Salinas and Watsonville, CA.Students...

Chris and Elecia explain when and why to use an operating system on a microcontroller (real-time or not).Thank you to our Embedded Patreon supporters, particularly to our corporate patreon, InterWorking Labs (iwl.com).

Dr. Loretta Cheeks (@loretta_cheeks) spoke with us about implicit bias in text, machine learning, getting a PhD, and STEAM outreach via Strong Ties (strongtiesaz.org).Also see:Loretta’s research on identifying implicit bias (The thumbnail image is from her work.)Lotetta’s TEDx talk on...

Amanda “w0z” Wozniak (@kainzowa) spoke with us about her career through biomedical engineering and startups. Amanda contributed a chapter to Building Open Source Hardware: DIY Manufacturing. (A book we spoke with Alicia Gibb about in #289.) Amanda’s chapter was titled Design...

What do you get when you connect the open-source reverse engineer of Valve’s Steam Controller and the main electrical engineer of said device?Jeff Keyzer (@mightyohm) and Gregory Gluszek (@greggersaurus) join us to talk about building and taking apart devices.Greg’s project...

What do you get when you connect the open-source reverse engineer of Valve’s Steam Controller and the main electrical engineer of said device? Jeff Keyzer (@mightyohm) and Gregory Gluszek (@greggersaurus) join us to talk about building and taking apart devices....

Jay Carlson (@jaydcarlson) is back on the show to discuss education and the techniques he’s using to teach embedded systems.Jay has some great posts on his jaycarlson.net blog. The one related to this show was entitled “How I Teach Embedded...

Jay Carlson (@jaydcarlson) is back on the show to discuss education and the techniques he’s using to teach embedded systems. Jay has some great posts on his jaycarlson.net blog. The one related to this show was entitled “How I Teach...

Jen Costillo (@rebelbotjen) joins Elecia and Christopher to discuss their experiences interviewing (both as interviewer and interviewee).Elecia did an hour long webinar on how to conduct technical interviews. In this show, she mentions a good post-interview ratings system.Google discovered that...

Jen Costillo (@rebelbotjen) joins Elecia and Christopher to discuss their experiences interviewing (both as interviewer and interviewee). Elecia did an hour long webinar on how to conduct technical interviews. In this show, she mentions a good post-interview ratings system. Google...

Christopher interviews an embedded systems engineer with ~25 years of experience across medical, scientific, industrial and consumer products. He asks about career trajectory, field stories, and assorted destruction.Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software