272: Stick ‘Em on Whales
Chris Gammell (@Chris_Gammell) of The Amp Hour (@TheAmpHour) joined us to talk about the state of the industry, listeners, guests, and life in general.
Embedded’s accounting episode (150: Sad Country Song)
Contextual Electronics Consulting forum (requires you to apply)
Remote work
Excellent video on how prototype PCBs have improved over the years
Quickly falling cost of dev boards
Elecia worked on learning and building robots and happily got a related job
Chris W is building IOS apps
Object oriented
Prototype to Product: A Practical Guide for Getting to Market by Alan Cohen (Emebdded.fm interview)
Visual Basic as a prototyping language
ESP32 and EXP8266 longevity and use in products
WiFi provisioning
Azure IoT Hub, AWS IoT, Google Cloud Iot, Ubidots, and IoT App Story (the one Chris G remembered later)
Genuine People Personality (from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Genuine people personalities are coming to our gadgets (ArsTechnica)
LoRA and chuckable sensors
Telepresence and mirroring others
The Amp Hour ToorCamp episodes
Sourdough (a novel about robotics and AI) and Embedded’s interview with the author
Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil
Jeri Ellsworth spoke about the demise of CarstAR in The Amp Hour 394
The Stone Monsters music products
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