272: Stick ‘Em on Whales

December 27, 2018 by Elecia White

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

250: Yolo Snarf

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)

CircuitPython

Visual Basic as a prototyping language

ESP32 and EXP8266 longevity and use in products

WiFi provisioning

Electric Imp, Particle.io

Azure IoT Hub, AWS IoT, Google Cloud Iot, Ubidots, and IoT App Story (the one Chris G remembered later)

Wallet.fail

Anki Vector robot

Genuine People Personality (from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Genuine people personalities are coming to our gadgets (ArsTechnica)

LoRA and chuckable sensors

LoRaWAN and ARM Mbed OS

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

Llama and the IoT zines

Related Oatmeal comic

Supporting Embedded Patreon leads to a link to their slack channel, mentioned in this show. Supporting The Amp Hour Patreon is also a great idea.

228: Pedantic or Andrantic

January 02, 2018 by Elecia White

The Amp Hour and Embedded join up to send a holiday letter to listeners.

Chris G is ever improving Contextual Electronics. Chris W has a new band: 12ax7. Elecia still has a book: Making Embedded Systems.

Amp Hour episodes mentioned in this one:

Embedded episodes mentioned:

We talked about teaching which led to:

Short mention of Dreyfus model of skill acquisition of which Chris G’s friend Mel did a great explanatory comic
Daniel Spalding’s How to Teach Adults (pdf)
Dan Luu’s Learning To Program post
Udacity’s Self Driving Car courses
Computer vision with Python OpenCV
Article on how the difficulty is the point of teaching literature
The new art and engineering Function Podcast
Hilarious World of Depression podcast

Books we are reading!

Build Your Own Transistor Radio by Ron Quan
The Hobbyist’s Guide to RTL-SDR by Carl Laufer
Spineless by Juli Berwald about Jellyfish
Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs by Tristan Gooley
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (terrifying mermaids)
Catseye by Andre Norton
Teach Beyond Your Reach by Robin Neidorf
Mastery by George Leonard
Understanding By Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
Making Learning Whole by David Perkins
How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use by Randy Paterson

Elecia got a JTrace Pro Cortex-M for herself for Christmas. Chris W got a Moog Werkstatt and an assortment of Teenage Engineering small synths. Chris G mostly got sweaters because Chicago is very cold.