447: All Sorts of Weird Problems

We spoke with Chris Gammell about IoT, podcasting, relaxing, and learning. Chris works at Golioth.io. They have a neat blog that talks about reference designs, Zephyr RTOS, and making products.

We talked about ESP chips which are made by Espressif. The ESP32 line is RISC-V.

Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)

Some YouTube channels we discussed:

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428: Sprinkling a Little IoT

Jonathan Beri spoke with us about the different IoT development tools and how to categorize them. 

Jonathan (@beriberikix) is the CEO of Golioth (@golioth_iot). He wrote a blog post called An Introduction to The Five Clouds of IoT, breaking the clouds into individual clouds: device, connectivity, data, application, and development.

Jonathan was previously on Embedded 222: Virtual Bunnie when he worked for Particle.io.

A partial list of the IoT tools we mentioned:


See also A list of IoT platforms – Systev post mentioned in the show (also Building The Infinite Matrix Of Tamagotchis | Hackaday).

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249: It Depends

Claire Rowland (@clurr) joined to discuss creating good user experiences for the Internet of Things. Claire is the lead author of Designing Connected Products: UX for the Consumer Internet of Things.

You can find more about her on clairerowland.com, from her talks (including Interusability: UX for Connected Products), her book's website, and her guest appearance on the IoT Podcast (episode 21). Her new report about user experience and the IoT will be on Iotuk.org.uk in June of 2018.

We asked about ROI for UX and Claire wasn't certain about the numbers during the show but she later directed us to this Forbes article.

Elecia was also on the IoT Podcast: episode 158.

It was @SwiftOnSecurity who posted the tweet about experts and their typical response.

 

225: When Toasters Attack

Maria Gorlatova spoke with us about how the combination of devices and cloud computing will change the world as we know it.

Maria’s bio, blog, and LinkedIn page.

Other topics:

Note: we really should have talked about Amazon and FreeRTOS. I heard another podcast might have mentioned it. We’ll try to get more info soon.

 

174: It's Not Weird

We spoke to Evan Shapiro, CTO and cofounder of Knit Health (@KnitHealth), about baby monitors, IoT security, neural nets, and professional poker.

The Knit Health Kickstarter ends November 17, 2016.

Evan recommended Google Tensor Flow and Python's Theano for an introduction to machine learning. (If those sound familiar it is because Kat Scott mentioned them as well.) Evan also suggested that if you'd like to know more about the history of neural nets, check out this post by Audrey Korenkov. 

If you'd like a gentle introduction, check out a Narwhal's Guide to Bayes' Rule.

Evan mentioned some videos he did about poker, they are on Card Runners (NOTE: it is a paid site with free tastes).

Final quote was from Neil Gaiman's excellent Graveyard Book.