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.

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...