Dr. Ayanna Howard ( @robotsmarts , wiki ) spoke with us about sex, race, and robots. Ayanna’s Audible book is Sex, Race, and Robots: How to Be Human in the Age of AI . You can see more of her research from her Google Scholar page . Find some best practices and tools for reducing bias AI: Partnership on AI AI Fairness 360 (IBM) Model Cards (Google) Ayanna has recently moved from being Professor and Department Chair at Georgia Tech to be Dean of Engineering at The Ohio State University . Her curre...
Mar 25, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 367
Laurel Cummings ( @justblamelaurel ) teaches people how to build what is required with the material on hand. We talked with her about how to engineer survival solutions on-the-fly, often while performing disaster relief. Also: what could be made with chewing gum and paper clips. Laurel works at Building Momentum ( buildmo.com ). They are currently hiring. Laurel spoke at SuperCon 2019 about Austere Engineering ....
Mar 18, 2021•59 min•Ep. 366
Cy Keener spoke with us about sensors, Arduinos, ice, and the crossover between art and science. You can see some of his field work and gallery installations at his site: cykeener.com and on his vimeo channel . Cy is an art professor at the University of Maryland ( bio , youtube ) Cy’s advisor at Stanford was Paul DeMarinis ( pauldemarinis.org , Stanford page ). Arduiniana : a blog of useful Arduino libraries We also talked about some custom sensors by Lovro Valcic of Bruncin ( bruncin.com )....
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 365
Jacob Beningo spoke with us about embedded systems, conference talks, writing articles and books, and best practices in development. Jacob is a consultant and instructor, see his website for more details (beningo.com) . Jacob is one of the organizers of the Embedded Online Conference , May 18,19, and 20. Session times is generally noted in Eastern Time (Americas). A coupon code for a discount on registration is in the show. Jacob will be giving a talk called Best Practices for RTOS Application D...
Mar 05, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 364
Alana Sherman of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI , @MBARI_News ) spoke with us about engineering for deep sea environments and jelly creatures. Alana’s MBARI page notes that she worked on DeepPIV and the Benthic Rover . She is also a part of the BioInspiration Lab . Larvaceans: image search , short video , or (my favorite!) the long video . It is probably too late to purchase tshirts but… in case it isn’t, here is the link ....
Feb 26, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 363
Chris and Elecia chat about their projects, Python, choosing boards, social media, tshirts, and self care. T Shirts are on sale until the end of February! To decode the titles check out the giant list of all embedded episodes . Our social media empire is growing. Please follow us on any of these sites: Twitter @embeddedfm Instagram @embeddedpodcast Facebook @embeddedfm LinkedIn @Embeddedfm YouTube Embedded Podcast Patreon Embedded Mailchimp Newsletter (weekly) Embedded.fm 2021 Embedded Online Co...
Feb 18, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 362
Ariel Waldman (@arielwaldman) spoke with us about how science, art, and all of the other disciplines can build a better world. Ariel does many amazing things, it is hard to list them all. Homepage: arielwaldman.com YouTube: arielwaldman Science Hack Day: sciencehackday.org and Twitter @ScienceHackDay Space Hack directory of ways to get involved: spacehack.org Patreon page: arielwaldman Book: What's It Like in Space?: Stories from Astronauts Who've Been There NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts cou...
Feb 12, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 255
Christelle Rohaut (@chrisrohaut) spoke with us about circular economies and how innovation can build better cities. Christelle is co-founder and CEO of Codi . She is on the Forbes 30 under 30 list . Second Harvest Food Bank
Feb 05, 2021•41 min•Ep. 361
Ben Hest of Digikey (@digikey) answered questions about finding parts, warehouses, packaging orders, and sweeping components off the floor. The Digikey website: digikey.com . It is ok to click around, looking for a ton of information (as well as parts). Want to see someone search for parts? Limor at Adafruit does this every week in The Great Search videos ! Ben’s favorite new parts are the Raspberry Pi Pico and the Parallax Propeller 2 . Embedded T-shirts are available ! You could also have your...
Jan 29, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 360
Thea Flowers (Stargirl, @theavalkyrie) creates open source and open hardware craft synthesizers that use Circuit Python for customization. She also writes about the internals of the SAMD21. Thea’s synthesizer modules are found at Winterbloom , including Castor & Pollux and the Big Honking Button . It is all open source hardware so you can find code and schematics on Thea’s github site: github.com/theacodes Thea’s site is thea.codes . You can find her blog there with deeply technical and detailed...
Jan 22, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 359
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 be found on Wevolver , usually redirected to sites where they are published....
Jan 15, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 358
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), and new shirt designs. Thank you very much to the supporters. Thank you to our listeners for raising over $5000 for DigitalNest ! Books and articles mentioned: Tessellations for Everyone Risk Up Front: Managing Projects ...
Jan 09, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 357
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 . Her graduate work was in using photogrammetry to build models. Kathleen works for GrokStyle , a company that lets you find furniture you like based on what you see. GrokStyle is used in the Augmented Reality try-it-at-home IKEA Place app . Theory of Fun for Game Des...
Jan 01, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 253
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 in signal processing. You can buy finished or DIY versions on vult-dsp.com/store . The physical hardware is a Eurorack module ( wiki ) but the Vult modules are also available for the VCV Rack , a Eurorack simulator that...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 356
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 Guide to DIY Electronics , and the mini.mu musical gloves . Helen has a book coming out in 2021 about DIY Music Tech including a soft version of the Michel Waisvisz' CrackleBox (Kraakdos). Check out some of the projects in ...
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 355
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 code: github.com/qt Maybe backtrack to see what is available: qt.io/product/features Hmm, was there talk of Qt and Python? PySide was it? qt.io/qt-for-python But wait, Qt for MCU? What platforms are supported? Qt...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 354
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 )....
Nov 26, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 353
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 interesting Hardwear.io talks including Capturing Mask ROMs and Taming Hydrofluoric Acid to Extract Firmware . His talks and many others are available on the Hardwear.io archive . Or sign up for the Hardwear.io Online Hardware Security Training ,...
Nov 20, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 352
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 was Analysis of Shell Coiling: General Problems by David M. Raup from the Journal of Paleontology , Sep., 1966, Vol. 40, No. 5. Chris used this model to print his lightsabe...
Nov 13, 2020•57 min•Ep. 351
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 ) has lots of projects including a page devoted to the awesome Pixelblaze projects (including the BioTronEsis alien light sea creatures which someone who hosts this show hopes will be in her Christmas stocking)...
Nov 06, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 350
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 Worm ), and links to her projects (such as Starfish Cat and a Cartoon Guide to the Internet of Things ). You can find more of her writing and videos on BuzzFeed and The Verge . You can also hire her product development comp...
Oct 29, 2020•57 min•Ep. 242
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 hardware designer at OSHPark (he recommends their blog !). He writes a monthly column for Hackspace Magazine, for example The Rise of the FPGA in Issue 26 and Intro to RISC-V . Yocto is a tool to help build a Linux distribution specific to your bo...
Oct 23, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 349
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, Africa. Tacocopter was a thing in 2011. (Ok, not a very serious thing but still.)...
Oct 15, 2020•59 min•Ep. 348
Chris (@stoneymonster) and Elecia (@logicalelegance) discuss API design and team dynamics. Elecia’s book: Making Embedded Systems Embedded Patreon StewMac ( Ukulele kits ) Transcript: embedded.fm/transcripts/347...
Oct 08, 2020•56 min•Ep. 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 her projects on Adafruit , Hackspace Magazine and Make Magazine. She also did a video interview with Tested . Sophy’s space suit was used in Saul’s King of Misery music video . Sophy has found inspiration in Debby Millman’s podcast De...
Oct 01, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 346
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 development (iOS and Android). PunchThrough also makes LightBlue, a great BLE debugging app you can find wherever you find your mobile apps. PunchThrough is hiring embedded software engineers in the Minneapolis, MN area. Chris and Gretchen both ...
Sep 24, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 345
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 report on the Open Hardware Summit (OHWS), listen to Don’t Panic Geocast, Episode 140 – “Juicero of Tractors” Ben’s websites are bhencke.com and electromage.com . Go there if you want to see some of Ben’s projects, including Synthia. You can also f...
Sep 17, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 220
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 and fashion are available on her site, Art By Physicist , and shop shop.kittyyeung.com . Her recent addition is the Constellation Dress . There is a coupon code in the show. Kitty has some other D...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 344
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 SVG ). She’s putting her origami crease patterns in a github repo eleciawhite/origami ), where else would you put it? About brains, Elecia was reading from Smart But Scattered ....
Sep 04, 2020•55 min•Ep. 343
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 August 2020). The Oxide podcast is available on oxide.computer/podcast as well as your usual podcast apps. Jess particularly recommended the episode with Jonathan Blow . Oxide is working to make hyperscaler-styl...
Aug 27, 2020•57 min•Ep. 342
