386: Not Managing Robots

Ingo Muschenetz spoke with us about software, management, podcasts, and interacting with people. 

Ingo’s LinkedIn page

Ingo works for Axway, they are hiring: Axway Careers

Ingo keeps up with many podcasts, here are some of his favorites:

Podcasts that talk about a complex topic, provide insight

• Throughline

• Planet Money

• Indicator  https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510325/the-indicator-from-planet-money

• Freakonomics

Podcasts with interviews and discussions about lives and careers

• Conan OBrian https://www.earwolf.com/show/conan-obrien

• Andy Richter  https://www.earwolf.com/show/the-three-questions-with-andy-richter/

• Fresh Air

Podcasts that don’t fit into a category other than “interesting”:

• 99% invisible

• 20000 Hz

• RadioLab https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab

Podcasts that Ingo didn’t mention but meant to:

• The Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily

• Software Engineering Daily: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/

• The Bugle: https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/

• Switched on Pop: https://switchedonpop.com/

• Gastropod: https://gastropod.com/

370: This Is the Whey

Alvaro Prieto (@alvaroprieto) spoke with us about cheese, making, work, the reverse engineering podcast, weather, and motivation.

Alvaro is a host of the Unnamed Reverse Engineering podcast. Some of his favorite episodes include #41 with Samy Kamkar, #14 with Joe Grand, and #23 with Major Malfunction. (Jen Costillo co-hosts the show and has been on Embedded several times.)

Alvaro works at Sofar Ocean, making oceanic sensing platforms. He has a personal website linking to his other exploits.

We talked about some Embedded episodes as well:

• #282 with Laughlin Barker about OpenROV

• #174 with Evan Shapiro about baby monitors and professional poker 

Also, we’ve all really enjoyed the Disney’s Mandolorian.

245: Tell Me How People Hurt You

Stephen Kraig (@Macro_Ninjaneer) and Parker Dillmann (@LnghrnEngineer), of Macrofab (@MacroFab) joined us to chat about getting hardware and software to work together.

Stephen and Parker are also hosts of the Macrofab podcast.

We compared out-the-ordinary podcast guests. For MacroFab episode 112 it was their conversation with a patent lawyer. For Embedded episode 150 it was our conversation with a tax accountant.

Schematics for the Apollo Guidance Computer (and their Kicad replica on github).

152: Dodecahedrocopter.com

Chris and Elecia chat about hobbies and respond to listener feedback and questions.

Chris was on an episode of Let's Drone Out, you can listen to it here or search in your favorite podcast platform. It is recorded and broadcast live every Thursday at 8 P.M. (UTC+1) on Powering On.

Chris' new quadcopter is a Vortex 285. It runs Clean Flight, an open source flight controller software package.

While we had various opinions about RTOSs, we were both interested in the one Alvaro suggested to us: Zephyr Project.

As for other embedded podcasts, of course you know about The Amp Hour. And we had Saron of CodeNewbie podcast on, that show is mostly software and people. How about Macrofab Engineering? Or O'Reilly's HW podcast?