Darma ( @Darma_inc ) is a nascent start-up focusing on optical sensors in a seat cushion to aid in posture, stress reduction, and meditation. Chris and Elecia speak with CEO Dr. Junhao Hu and Sharif Kassatly about building a company, going through the Haxlr8r 's accelerator program, and choosing a crowd funding platform. Keep up with Darma on their webpage and on their Facebook page . One of their advisors is NASA's Dr. Joan Vernikos, author of Sitting Kills, Moving Heals ....
Aug 27, 2014•55 min
WHOOPS! We didn't record Elecia's mic this week and are taking a track direct from Chris' computer mic. Sound quality is not up to our normal standards. Sorry! Chris ( @stoneymonster ) hosted the show, asking Elecia ( @logicalelegance ) what it was like to write her Making Embedded Systems book. (Thanks to Chris Svec for the request!) Put in your idea to O'Reilly Write a novel this November with NaNoWriMo Come hear Chris and Elecia talk about writing software that can kill you at Hacker Dojo in ...
Aug 21, 2014•1 hr 15 min
Steve Dalton ( @spidie ) told us about starting a hackerspace, visiting Silicon Valley with a homebrew incubator group, and tech and fencing Australia. Gold Coast Tech Space started off building the Rep Rap 3D printer Steve's consulting group is Refactor Silicon Lakes incubator just opened a call for applications to the SURF accelerator . The Arduino-like GCDuino , available on Little Bird Rabbits are not indigenous and not appreciated in Australia. They have the rabbit proof fence and the Easte...
Aug 13, 2014•1 hr 8 min
Josh Bleecher Snyder ( @offbymany ) joined us to talk about PayPal's Beacon , being acquired, the Go programming language, BTLE, computer vision, and working at a large company after founding small ones. Bluetooth Low Energy: A Developer's Handbook by Robin Heydon TI CC2540 BTLE module Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision by Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler Gatt is a Go package for building Bluetooth Low Energy peripherals ( video description by Josh from GopherCon 2014) Card.io Machine learning's Th...
Aug 06, 2014•1 hr 6 min
Jen Costillo ( @rebelbotJen ) brings Fashion Professor Kyle Chan to discuss wearables from a different perspective. California College of the Arts' Summer Series: Design of Wearables . Jen and Kyle's session is Fashionably Practical on Wedneday, August 6th, 2014 8:15pm-10pm in San Francisco. Sparkfun conductive ribbon and thermochromatic pigment (blue) Athos athletic body monitoring Cute Circuit's photonic couture Smoke dress (neat!) Necomimi : thought controlled cat ear headband Reebok Checklig...
Jul 30, 2014•1 hr 12 min
Jason Kridner ( @Jadon ) joined us to talk about the BeagleBone Black ... and other things. Some good books for Beagle : Bad to the Bone: Crafting Electronics Systems with Beaglebone and BeagleBone Black (co-authored by Jason) Getting Started with BeagleBone: Linux-Powered Electronic Projects With Python and JavaScript Programming the BeagleBone Black: Getting Started with JavaScript and BoneScript More comprehensive list of BeagleBone resources BotSpeak - A programming language for internet end...
Jul 23, 2014•1 hr 11 min
Chris and Elecia went on vacation so this week we have music for you: the Ballistic Cats will be releasing a new album soon! If you like it, please check out the Ballistc Cats website . This album will be officially released on August 15, 2014.
Jul 17, 2014•40 min
Craig Sullender of ChipSight joined Elecia and Christopher to talk about machine, computer, and embedded vision. Craig's $20 Vision System – IoTcam Lighting control demos Slides on embedded CV technology Peep , a camera for your door'd peephole (soon to be on Kickstarter) Lattice Mach X02 O'Reilly's Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV...
Jul 10, 2014•1 hr 2 min
Joe Grand ( @JoeGrand ) spoke with us about his life as Kingpin, hardware hacking, hosting a TV show, and being a Hackaday judge. Joe's company is the Grand Idea Studio . His TV show Prototype This was on the Discovery Channel. He created an Atari game: SCSIcide . Joe will be giving his hardware hacking training at Black Hat USA in August (as well as some of the other security conferences in also Las Vegas at that time). Joe and Elecia are on the Hackaday Prize judging panel. There are some amaz...
Jul 02, 2014•1 hr 11 min
Ken Milnes talked to Elecia and Chris about his career developing augmented reality for sports broadcasting. SportVision MLB Stats
Jun 25, 2014•53 min
Matt Haines ( @beardedinventor ) and Tom Byrne ( @tlbyrn ) spoke to Elecia and Chris about Electric Imp ( @electricimp ). This discussion goes far beyond our first with Matt ( Episode 6 !). It is more software and implementation oriented than last week's Amp Hour . In the vein of "what do I do after I've made an LED blink from a webpage?": Tom's Neopixel Weather project ( instructable !) Mars Curiosity rover that mirrors what is happening on Mars (provide your own Martian) Elecia's are-you-ok wi...
Jun 18, 2014•1 hr 14 min
Radhika Thekkath, CEO of Agivox , joined Elecia to talk about her start up, entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, and getting NSF SBIR grants . Contact Radhika SBIR home page
Jun 12, 2014•51 min
Elizabeth Brenner ( @eabrenner ) returned to the show to talk about the are-you-ok widget that she and Elecia have been working on. (The initial problem-statement show is episode 17 .) There is now a SparkFun tutorial so you can build one of the are-you-ok widgets yourself. As announced in the show, there is a contest to get a SparkFun gift card, it ends 6/13/14 so get your answer in by then (maximum of two entries per person, please). Elecia already took the name Sal Right out of the running ( ...
Jun 05, 2014•1 hr 11 min
Elecia attended O'Reilly's Solid Conference , recording a few of the people she met there. Note: this episode is recorded in a noisy location. Erin Mulcahy at littleBits ( @littleBits ), magnetic electronics modules Jack Mudd at Onewheel ( @RideOnewheel ), powered sort-of skateboard with only one wheel and auto-balancing Laurie Yoler from Qualcomm , she spoke on Intelligent Connectivity. It’s What’s Next Taylor Stein from AutoDesk, a Fusion 360 evangelist (free for hobbyists!) Ahmed Daoud from P...
Jun 03, 2014•32 min
Jack Ganssle shared his wisdom on being a good embedded software engineer (hint: it takes discipline). Jack's website is filled with great essays and new videos. He's also written the Art of Designing Embedded Systems and The Embedded Systems Dictionary (with Michael Barr). We covered a lot of ground, here are some of the highlights: Spark language Capers Jones on high quality software and associated statistics Joel on Software test for good teams LDRA unit test tool James Grenning's Test Driven...
May 28, 2014•1 hr 3 min
Elecia spoke with Micheal Worry, CEO of Nuvation , about engaging with and working at a design firm. Disco Fish , the autonomous Burning Man party vehicle Udacity course in autonomous vehicles ROS is Willow Garage's robot operating system Contact Nuvation at their website or on twitter ( @Nuvation ). Contact Disco Fish and its build buddies on Facebook ....
May 21, 2014•59 min
Jen Costillo ( @r0b0ts0nf1r3 ) 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 their brainteasers are not a very effective way to interview. Despite the news that swearing is good for you, we tried to bleep everything. Also, it is minesweeper , not minefield. What were we thin...
May 14, 2014•1 hr 22 min
Christopher White ( @stoneymonster ) and Elecia celebrate a year in podcasting by talking about the show. Then they decide whether or not to change the name of the show to Embedded (yes). Elecia's list of current and soon activities: Hackaday Prize (SPACE!!!!!) and snooping on current entries Element14 blog based on her EELive Internet of Things talk Shopping list for the are-you-ok widget first discussed on Elizabeth's episode Circuit Cellar interview Going to SOLID conference 5/21 in SF (we di...
May 07, 2014•1 hr 13 min
Tenaya Hurst ( @ArduinoWoman ) shares her incredible enthusiasm for teaching Arduino and the San Jose's Tech Museum of Innovation ( The Tech ). Being a geo-anthrop-actress, Tenaya teaches chemistry, geology, Arduino, and beginning wearables for the Tech, for their Galileo summer camp , for Oakland's Workshop Weekend , and on her own recognizance through her website . Tenaya will be at the Linino booth at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, CA on May 17-18, 2014 Tenyana's movie credits Lilypad sewable ...
Apr 30, 2014•1 hr 3 min
Dr. Kevin Shaw, CTO of Sensor Platforms , spoke with Elecia about his career progressing from designing MEMS to building a company that makes sensor fusion algorithms. Wandering from the Internet of Things to Singularity University to power management in Android development, Kevin and Elecia had a wide-ranging conversation. Due in July, check out Sensor Platform's Open Sensor Platform project, an open source framework for developing sensor systems (sample timing is critical!)....
Apr 23, 2014•1 hr 7 min
Nathan Tuck joined Christopher White ( @stoneymonster ) and Elecia White to chat about varied topics relating to being an embedded (and graphics) engineer (and manager). Nate works at NVidia on the Tegra K1-64 . He mentioned some openings in his team at the end of the podcast, email the show to get a connection. We also noted that Eyefluence is hiring for an EE and/or technician for work somewhere between San Jose, CA and Reno, NV. Direct resumes to Peter Milford using the email you find on thei...
Apr 16, 2014•1 hr 32 min
Jennelle Crothers ( @jkc137 ) explained to Elecia what a technology evangelist does. Of course, it wasn't an embedded technology but it was still amusing. Plus, Elecia got to play with a Surface Pro. Check out Jennelle's blog Jennelle and Elecia met at She's Geeky in Mountain View, CA.
Apr 09, 2014•40 min
David Anders ( Google+ ) joined Elecia to chat about open source hardware, what it means, how to do it, and why. Dave will be speaking at the embedded Linux conference in San Jose, CA on April 30th: 9:00am: Panel: IoT and the Role of Embedded Linux and Android 4:20pm: Hardware Debugging Tools 5:20pm: Debugging - Panel Discussio n Open Source Hardware Association describes the gradient of open source hardware. Sigrok looks at open source and open source friendly tools Dave works for CircuitCo , m...
Apr 02, 2014•50 min
Josh Chan and Tarun Pondicherry, founders of Light Up ( @Lightup or on Facebook ), returned to the show. In episode 7 , they were midway through their kickstarter , planning to make a product to teach electronics to elementary and middle school students. They've start shipping, even distributing , their MiniKits (other kits will ship soon!). Elecia asks them if building their business and shipping the product went according to plan....
Mar 26, 2014•49 min
Tony Rios from MEMSIC spoke with Elecia about inertial systems and tuning algorithms used in sensor fusion (i.e. Kalman ). The IMU380 will appear soon, creating a whole line of relatively inexpensive quality inertial measurement and inertial navigation systems. Tony has a few embedded systems and algorithms positions open, for example, embedded software engineer . Email [email protected] (note you heard it in the podcast so Elecia gets brownie points)....
Mar 19, 2014•1 hr 2 min
Christopher White ( @stoneymonster ) and Elecia talk about the failed startups (and projects) they've been through, focusing on identifying how to discern the end is nigh. A nice collection of startups introspecting their failure. Wonderful, in-depth Everpix post-mortem . If you liked this episode, try 24: I AM A TOTAL FRAUD ....
Mar 12, 2014•1 hr 9 min
Micah Elizabeth Scott ( @scanlime ) came to talk about Fadecandy , a really neat way to control smart LEDs ( NeoPixel , AdaFruit's term for the WS2812). The conversation ranged from beautiful LED control algorithms and open source embedded projects to triangle tessellations , art, and identity. AdaFruit has a great intro to Fadecandy . Fadecandy is open source hardware and software, see the repository . Micah's blog is a combo of art and technology. Burning Man's Ardent Mobile Cloud (also a love...
Mar 05, 2014•57 min
Evil Mad Scientist's Lenore Edman ( @EMSL ) talks about what evil mad scientists do on their path to world domination. Surprisingly, it consists largely of art, education, and soldering. Some EMSL items we talked about: LED Menorah kit ( solderless breadboard and soldering version ). ATtiny2313 Target Boards Bristlebot : a very cute, easy to build mini robot We also mentioned Maker Faire , a wonderful community, and Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog . There is a give away on this show: EMS's Snap-O...
Feb 26, 2014•57 min
Jen Costillo ( @r0b0ts0nf1r3 ) joined Elecia to talk about Jen's start-up: Bia Sport ( @BiaSport ). They discuss the difficulties of being in an underfunded start-up as well as the joys of shipping a new product and their upcoming conference talks. Jen discussed the company's focus on safety and privacy at the DesignCon sponsored Geek Girl Dinner . She will be speaking at : Wearables Device Conference . Beyond Activity Trackers: Sport Wearables Thursday, March 6, 2014 3:15pm. (Use the coupon cod...
Feb 19, 2014•1 hr
Producer Chris White ( @stoneymonster ) and Elecia discuss some insurmountable problems and some strategies for approaching them. Google it (or look on Stack Exchange ). Explain the problem to someone else… even if they aren't there (use a stuffed animal or write a really detailed email, anticipating potential questions). Draw a picture (system/subsystem architecture or code block diagram or a doodle). Make sure you are running what you think you are, start over from a blank slate, making no ass...
Feb 12, 2014•1 hr 1 min
