419: Fission Chips

Eric Schlaepfer and Windell Oskay are the authors of Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components. We discussed the inner beauty of a number of electronic components as well as cameras, photography, writing, preparing samples, and terrible title puns.

You can pre-order the physical book and get a digital early release copy at NoStarch.com/Open-Circuits

Windell is co-founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratory (@EMSL). He and Eric have collaborated before on several projects:

• The Three Fives Kit: A Discrete 555 Timer 

• The 555SE Discrete 555 Timer

• The XL741 Discrete Op-Amp Kit

• The 741SE Discrete 741 Op-Amp

Eric is also known for the Monster 6502, a 6502 processor made up of individual transistors. Eric also writes on tubetime.us and is on Twitter as @TubeTimeUS

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• The Three Fives Kit: A Discrete 555 Timer (two)

• A copy of Open Circuits (one)

Transcript

A lovely reject from the book, this is the base of a neon bulb from GE.

310: While Loops Dressed up for Halloween

Aimee Lucido (@AimeeLucido) is a software engineer and children’s book author. Her first book is Emmy in the Key of Code about music, learning to code, and fitting in. We spoke with Aimee about writing, programming, publishing, and putting beautiful words together.

You can get a copy of Emmy in the Key of Code from Booksmith, IndieBound, Barnes & Noble, Target, or Amazon. The music playlist can be found in Google Play or Spotify.

Aimee’s website is aimeelucido.com. She also writes crossword puzzles for American Values Club and New Yorker.

Some other authors and books we talked about:

• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

• The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Shane W. Evans

• Pulitzer-prize winning Kendrick Lamar

After the show, I asked Aimee about resources for learning to read as a writer, she suggested looking at the KidLit Craft Blog.

Thank you to our Embedded Patreon supporters, particularly to our corporate patreon, InterWorking Labs (iwl.com).

281: Tame Geek

Combining a love of engineering with a love of words, Jenny List (@Jenny_Alto) is a contributing editor at Hackaday (@Hackaday).

Jenny’s writing at Hackaday including Debunking the Drone Versus Plane Hysteria and Ooops, Did We Just Close An Airport Over a UFO Sighting?

Previously Jenny worked for Oxford English Press working on computational linguistics software. While there she wrote post about the word “hacker”.

Elecia has been secretly dreaming of being a lexicographer since reading Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper.