John Schuch (@JohnS_AZ) talked with us about being a semifinalist in the Hackaday Prize, his project, and entering other contests.
Winning Entry on Mouser 500 Challenge
Honorable Mention on Circuit Cellar's ChipKit2012
Many contests are announced on Circuit Cellar and searching the EEVBlog forums.
IRC channel mentioned is TYMKRS
Christopher and Elecia look through listener email, check in on what past guests are up to, and consider the best and worst of science in recent fiction.
Hackaday Prize Finalists (and the 50 Semiinalists)
Saleae Logic Pro 16 (related: Drive the Boat with a Wii Mote)
Darma Kickstarter (related: Resonant Frequency of My Butt)
Peep sign up to be notified of their Kickstarter (related: Vision for Simple Minds)
EMSL Halloween round up and open house on Nov 13 (related: Mwahahaha Session)
Silicon Chef Hackathon results (related: Dancing with Hundreds of Women)
Pan-CJK fonts (related: The Tofu Problem)
The Martian (Amazon) (There is a tiny spoiler, one Elecia doesn't think merits the warning but Christopher says to skip 55:00 to 01:02:55 if you want to read the book cold.)
Don's I Snooze Remote
Emile Petrone (@emilepetrone) talked with Chris and Elecia about Tindie: buying, selling, changing the rate of hardware innovation, having a burgeoning start up, connecting government agencies to craft electronics, etc.
We talked about many amazing projects on Tindie but there were so many, it is hard to call them out. Arduboy and AirPi Raspberry Pi weather station are two that stood out.
Intellectual property attorney Judith Szepesi (@Judith_IP) discusses what Elecia (and startups) need to know about patenting.
Judith is a founding partner at HIPLegal, LLP. They will soon have a guide to addressing patent trolls (link to be added when available).
Ask Patents - a Stack Exchange site to discuss patents (and patent trolls)
Judith and Elecia both recommend the Patent It Yourself book from NOLO Press (always get the latest of this). Even if you seek legal counsel, you'll have a better idea of what should happen through the process. [Note: we got to talking after the show and Judith reminded me that if you do research for other people's patents, you should track that because you have an obligation to tell the patent office about whatever you are aware of that is relevant. -El]
Rob Faludi (@Faludi), author of Building Wireless Sensor Networks and chief innovator at Digi International, spoke with us about Zigbee, writing, and experimenting.
Books we talked about:
Mike Szczys (@Szczys) discusses @Hackaday, the SPACE! prize, being a professional musician, and visiting Silicon Valley.
Hackaday.com blog including Mike's post about Why Open Design is the way forward
Supply Frame FindChips and (upcoming) Parts.io
In response to a listener question, Elecia wrote a blog post about things to do in Silicon Valley. When Mike visited for the first time, he caught many highlights: he went to HSC/Halted, enjoying how organized it is, woke up early for the De Anza electronics flea market, and had a ball at the Computer History Museum.
Mike's Science Friday segment
Angie Chang (@thisgirlangie) joined us to talk about the coding bootcamp Hackbright Academy, their upcoming hardware hackathon, Girl Geek Dinners, and the extreme awkwardness of networking.
Sign up to be a hackathon mentor (not gender limited) or to be on the waitlist to attend (women only). Get your team together on Hackathon IO.
Sign up to be a Hackbright Academy mentor.
Oh look! Elecia signed up to speak on Sunday!
The article on Peter Thiel and women founders by Kate Losse that Chris referenced toward the end of the show.
In front of a live audience, Chris and Elecia talk about their experiences with FAA and FDA.
This show was recorded live in front of the Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source meetup group at Hacker Dojo.
The Wikipedia article on DO-178B is a good place to get an overview of the FAA process (even for other levels of concern).
For FDA, their guidance is the best place to start. Also see their 510k information. Finally, note that all class III (3, very high risk) require the more difficult Premarket Approval (PMA) process.
Everything we know about car safety certification, we learned by reading Wikipedia's ISO-26262, including Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL).
Jack Ganssle's Embedded.fm episode was Being a Grownup Engineer.
Photo by Alison Chaiken
Jack Gassett (@gadgetfactory) is the creator of the open source FPGA Papilio development board. He joins Chris and Elecia to answer the age-old question of how to get started with FPGAs.
Jack's company is Gadget Factory.
Chris got the Papilio Pro and Arcade MegaWing.
Recommended reading:
Chris and Elecia will be recording live at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, CA on Monday, September 8, 2014 at 7 P.M. RSVP!
Darma (@Darma_inc) is a nascent start-up focusing on optical sensors in a seat cushion to aid in posture, stress reduction, and meditation. Chris and Elecia speak with CEO Dr. Junhao Hu and Sharif Kassatly about building a company, going through the Haxlr8r's accelerator program, and choosing a crowd funding platform.
Keep up with Darma on their webpage and on their Facebook page.
One of their advisors is NASA's Dr. Joan Vernikos, author of Sitting Kills, Moving Heals.
WHOOPS! We didn't record Elecia's mic this week and are taking a track direct from Chris' computer mic. Sound quality is not up to our normal standards. Sorry!
Chris (@stoneymonster) hosted the show, asking Elecia (@logicalelegance) what it was like to write her Making Embedded Systems book. (Thanks to Chris Svec for the request!)
Write a novel this November with NaNoWriMo
Come hear Chris and Elecia talk about writing software that can kill you at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View on Monday September 8, 2014, 7pm. Sign up!
Also, bonus quotes:
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
"Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being." - A. A. Milne
Steve Dalton (@spidie) told us about starting a hackerspace, visiting Silicon Valley with a homebrew incubator group, and tech and fencing Australia.
Gold Coast Tech Space started off building the Rep Rap 3D printer
Steve's consulting group is Refactor
Silicon Lakes incubator just opened a call for applications to the SURF accelerator.
The Arduino-like GCDuino, available on Little Bird
Rabbits are not indigenous and not appreciated in Australia. They have the rabbit proof fence and the Easter Billby.
Steve had a podcast Six Degrees and now also listens to STEAM and Engineering Commons.
Steve's Hackaday Prize entry: What the Chook (also, Stuart's Wifi Rocks).
Josh Bleecher Snyder (@offbymany) joined us to talk about PayPal's Beacon, being acquired, the Go programming language, BTLE, computer vision, and working at a large company after founding small ones.
Bluetooth Low Energy: A Developer's Handbook by Robin Heydon
Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision by Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler
Gatt is a Go package for building Bluetooth Low Energy peripherals (video description by Josh from GopherCon 2014)
Machine learning's Theano
Eigen Library for matrix math
Jen Costillo (@rebelbotJen) brings Fashion Professor Kyle Chan to discuss wearables from a different perspective.
California College of the Arts' Summer Series: Design of Wearables. Jen and Kyle's session is Fashionably Practical on Wedneday, August 6th, 2014 8:15pm-10pm in San Francisco.
Sparkfun conductive ribbon and thermochromatic pigment (blue)
Athos athletic body monitoring
Cute Circuit's photonic couture
Smoke dress (neat!)
Necomimi: thought controlled cat ear headband
Reebok Checklight for detecting concussions and the Adafruit teardown
Hövding scarf airbag for cyclists
Jason Kridner (@Jadon) joined us to talk about the BeagleBone Black... and other things.
Some good books for Beagle :
BotSpeak - A programming language for internet endpoints
To contact Jason about ordering a bunch of units for your OEM use, see his contact info on BeagleBoard.org's About page.
Chris and Elecia went on vacation so this week we have music for you: the Ballistic Cats will be releasing a new album soon! If you like it, please check out the Ballistc Cats website. This album will be officially released on August 15, 2014.
Craig Sullender of ChipSight joined Elecia and Christopher to talk about machine, computer, and embedded vision.
Craig's
Peep, a camera for your door'd peephole (soon to be on Kickstarter)
O'Reilly's Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV
Joe Grand (@JoeGrand) spoke with us about his life as Kingpin, hardware hacking, hosting a TV show, and being a Hackaday judge.
Joe's company is the Grand Idea Studio. His TV show Prototype This was on the Discovery Channel. He created an Atari game: SCSIcide. Joe will be giving his hardware hacking training at Black Hat USA in August (as well as some of the other security conferences in also Las Vegas at that time).
Joe and Elecia are on the Hackaday Prize judging panel. There are some amazing projects if you want to check out your competition (or vote for the ones you like!).
Ken Milnes talked to Elecia and Chris about his career developing augmented reality for sports broadcasting.
Matt Haines (@beardedinventor) and Tom Byrne (@tlbyrn) spoke to Elecia and Chris about Electric Imp (@electricimp). This discussion goes far beyond our first with Matt (Episode 6!). It is more software and implementation oriented than last week's Amp Hour.
In the vein of "what do I do after I've made an LED blink from a webpage?":
Finally, the SparkFun contest winner was announced. There were many great entries, choosing a winner was difficult. Ken M (@Deamiter) won the grand prize. Luckily, Matt and Tom brought two April board + Electric Imp sets to give away so Chris Svec (@christophersvec) and Alex Irvine (@EternalPractice) were runners up. Thank you to all who participated, your ideas were awesome and we loved to hear about them.