Elecia's Index

I like doodling and sometimes use the resulting comics to teach or remember concepts, such as

• The Memory Map Land presentation, entirely centered around an actual map.

• The Consumer Llama’s Guide to the Internet of Things,

• Narwhal’s Guide to Bayes’ Rule 

• Snow White’s Guide to Your First Stock Option.

• There are a few single page versions including

  • Robot Arms and 2D Coordinate Frames

  • Portraits of Kalman Filters (and statistics).

I have a few presentations available including

• Buried Treasure and Memory Maps on using the memory maps output by

• Snails, Paper, and Programming on making origami snails

• Tricky Parts of Embedded Engineering

• Introduction to Inertial Systems

• Taking Apart BB8

In Taking Apart Toys, I look inside toys to see what they can tell us about building devices. This might have been a book but it didn’t work out. This is a series that may be of interest to people getting into hardware and/or those who like to see graphic pictures of disassembled toys.

Ty the Typing Robot tracks my ongoing adventures through machine learning, computer vision, and robotics. It is a fairly in-depth series with lots of exploration and open source code.

I have a some advice posts where readers and listeners ask questions. Career and general advice:

• Resilience is a Skill - Why you should finish school

• Don’t Use Arduino (For Professional Work)

• Definition of Mentoring

• Strategies for Dealing with Impostor Syndrome

• I Heart My Notebook - Using an engineering notebook effectively

• Interviewing a Technical Lead

• Making Difficult Decisions

• Ethics and Engineering

• Shameless Self-Promotion - Suggestions for embedded systems books

• Working Remotely

• Getting started in embedded with a single board computer

• Blocking Patents with Open Source Prior Art

• Perfect Everyday

More technical advice:

• Ping Pong Buffers

• A Conversations about Cyclomatic Complexity

• Setting up toolchains

• Different C math library instances

• C keyword volatile,

• Command console in C over a UART

• An introduction to binary and hexadecimal

• How to create a usable API

• What is JTAG

• Device security checklist

• Weasley Clock- Exploring ideas for a embedded project

• Fitbit Versa Clock Face: Conway

Some deeper dives into particular embedded topics:

• Internationalization and Localization on embedded systems: an introduction and a deeper dive into displaying Asian languages.

• The Tricky Parts of Embedded Firmware (series on the real complexity of embedded systems includes an intro, definitions, and tips on downloading firmware)

I occasionally explore random ideas as they occur to me:

• How Cephalopods Are Like Embedded Systems - marine biology collides with machine learning

• Creative Destruction Board - a board designed to catastrophically failed

• I Like the Word Ignominious - how my career has occasionally gone off the rails and veered in to the surreal

• A Book About Applied Robotics - what I'm looking for in a book about applied robotics

• Seventeen Machine Learning Tools - various machine learning methods and their applications

Finally, there are some podcast related posts:

• An Intro to Podcasting - How podcasting works for me.

• So Many Ways to Stall - A mini-lesson in media training.

• Learning is ... Fun - Musings on game design based on episode #253 with Kathleen Tuite.

• Interview on Podcasting - Questions from ListenNotes about the Embedded podcast

• 2017 Survey Results (part 1) - Overview of the results of the survey