Emily Velasco (@MLE_Online) spoke with us about artistic projects, retro-future aesthetics, and scientific communication. She shows and describes the projects on YouTube: Emily’s Electric Oddities including the Optical Sound Decoder, Port-A-Vid, Hairy Cacti, and the Lissajukebox.Many of Emily’s professional writings can...

Chris and Elecia talk about making albums, making progress, DIY shot reporting, getting credit, and project management.Check out the Embedded transcripts (now with older shows appearing weekly!).  The Embedded Patreon provides the funds for guest mics, transcripts (new and old),...

We spoke with Kathleen Tuite (@kaflurbaleen) about augmented reality, computer vision, games with a purpose, and meetups.Kathleen’s personal site (filled with many interesting projects we didn’t talk about) is SuperFireTruck.com.Kathleen works for GrokStyle, a company that lets you find furniture...

Leonardo Laguna Ruiz of Vult spoke with us about modelling electronics, modular synthesizers, and modulating sound. We talked in detail about applied digital signal processing.Leonardo’s website is www.vult-dsp.com. Check out the Freak Filter, the user manual alone is a course...

Helen Leigh (@helenleigh) joined us to talk about music, electronics, books, and starting a new job at CrowdSupply (@crowd_supply).Helen was previously on Embedded #261: Blowing Their Fragile Little Minds where we talked about subversive geography, her book The Crafty Kid's...

Becky Worledge of the Qt Company (@qtproject) spoke with us about application frameworks, organizing large code bases, and automotive regulations.The best place to get started with Qt is the getting started page: doc.qt.io/qt-5/gettingstarted.html Or skip that and head straight for the...

Seth Hillbrand (@SethHillbrand), lead developer for KiCAD (@kicad_pcb), spoke with us about open source development, EDA tools, pronunciation, and inclusion.Check out KiCAD!Seth’s company provides support for KiCAD (kipro-pcb.com, @kiproeda).

John McMaster (@johndmcmaster) told us about the process of opening up chips to see how the processors are structured and what the firmware says. See John’s website for information on getting started (as well as digging much deeper).John has given some...

Chris and Elecia discuss transcripts, lightsabers, seashells, python, numpy, matlab and how to get into embedded systems development.Embedded show transcripts are available at embedded.fm/transcripts Elecia’s origami github repository includes a python script for generating origami shell folding patterns. The paper described...

Ben Hencke (@ledmage, @im889) updated us on blinking lights and running a small hardware business. You can find the current PixelBlaze in the Electomage store on Tindie (tindie.com/stores/electromage/) or signup for a shiny new version on CrowdSupply.Ben’s personal site (bhencke.com)...

Christine Sunu (@christinesunu) spoke with us about the feelings we get from robots.For more information about emotive design, check out Christine’s website: christinesunu.com. From there you can find hackpretty.com, some of her talks (including the TED talk with the Fur...

Drew Fustini (@pdp7) spoke with us about building Linux, RISC-V cores, and many other things. Links, so many links!Drew is a board member of the BeagleBoard.org Foundation and of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA.org). He is an open source...

Whitney Huang of Zipline (@zipline) spoke with us about drone delivery of medical products: technology, operations, and applications.For more information about Zipline, check out flyzipline.com. Also, Zipline is hiring for positions in San Francisco, CA, USA, North America and Ghana,...

Chris (@stoneymonster) and Elecia (@logicalelegance) discuss API design and team dynamics.Elecia’s book: Making Embedded SystemsEmbedded PatreonStewMac (Ukulele kits)Transcript: embedded.fm/transcripts/347

Sophy Wong (@sophywong) creates projects she can wear and writes about them so others can make them as well. We talked about fashion, design, inspiration, and motivation.Sophy’s website is sophywong.com. We spoke about her book, Wearable Tech Projects. Check out...

Gretchen Walker gave advice on creating a BLE iOS application.Gretchen wrote The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Core Bluetooth on the PunchThrough (@PunchThrough) blog. There are many other good posts on the blog about BLE from a device perspective and app...

Ben Hencke (@im889) spoke with us about OHWS, Tindie, and blinking lights.Ben sells his Pixelblaze WiFi LED controller on his ElectroMage store on Tindie. It is based on the ESP8266 and uses the DotStar (APA102) lights.To hear John Leeman’s trip...

Kitty Yeung (@KittyArtPhysics) spoke with us about the superposition of quantum computing and fashion.If you want to learn more about quantum computing, check out Kitty’s series on Hackaday’s Quantum Computing Through Comics.Kitty works for Microsoft in Quantum Computing (@MSFTQuantum).Kitty’s art...

Chris and Elecia discuss transcripts, listener emails, and brains.We already have a post about the dangers of using Arduino for professional work.Elecia got a Cricut Maker to help her make origami and then discovered SVG files were editable (Intro to...

Jess Frazelle (@jessfraz) of Oxide Computer (@oxidecomputer) spoke with us about hyperscalers (large companies that make their own datacenter server hardware) and podcasts.Jess wrote an article about the power efficiency measurements of datacenter servers: Power to the People (ACM Queue...

Roger Linn (@roger_linn) gave us new ideas about musical instruments, detailing how wonderful expressive control, 3D buttons, and keyscanning can be.Roger’s company is Roger Linn Design. We talked extensively about the LinnStrument, some about the AdrenaLinn for guitar, and only...

Phoenix Perry (@phoenixperry) returns to speak with us about education and the importance of merging art and technology.Phoenix’s website is phoenixperry.com. The art installation crossing the virtual and the physical world was called Forest Day Dream. Phoenix is teaching a...

Chris and Elecia talk about getting transcriptions, accessibility, operating systems, and networking.Elecia recommends reading Haben by Haben Girma (@HabenGirma).Transcripts will initially be only available to Patreon supporters. To become a Patreon supporter, go to patreon.com/embedded. If you can’t be a...

Dan Zimmerman (@dmz) spoke with us about voting, voting machines, building trust in software, and transparency.Dan works for Galois (https://galois.com/ , @galois) and Free and Fair (https://freeandfair.us/, @free_and_fair). He worked on the US Vote Foundation’s E2E-VIV Project on the Future...

In a surprising turn of tables, Christopher White (@stoneymonster) joins the show as a guest to talk about his career, burnout, and musical instruments.Christopher attended Harvey Mudd College for his undergrad mathematics degree then got a Master’s degree in physics...