Raman Pi creator Mark Johnson (@flatCat_) spoke with us about spectrometers, 3D printing, and competing in the Hackaday Prize.
Raman Pi project on Hackaday.io
Hackaday prize semi-finalist video
Mike Szczys' Fl@c@ bio on Hackaday.com
Open Source Fusor Research Consortium
Wikipedia: spectrometer, Raman spectroscopy, fusors, and optical coherence tomography
Weird Stuff is a Bay area electronics surplus store
Raman Pi also has its own website
Jen, Chris, and Elecia talk about the movies that influenced them to go into engineering.
Choose Your Own Adventure books (Amazon, wiki)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (imdb, Amazon)
321 Contact, show and magazine (imdb (tv))
The Muppets Show (imdb, Amazon)
Phineas and Ferb (imdb, Amazon)
Sisterhood of Spies (Amazon)
Crytonomicon (Amazon)
Chris and Elecia babble up a show about gifts, conferences, and makers.
Embedded Systems Conference is put on by UBM. The conference is in Boston May 6-7, 2015, Santa Clara July 20-22, and Minneapolis November 4-5. The Santa Clara proposal deadline is January 9th.
O'Reilly's Solid Conference is June 22-25 in San Francisco. Proposals are due January 12th.
Kerbal Space Program and some controllers and telemetry boards from other people
CrossyRoad is on iOS and Android (This is bad, do not start. Also unihorse is the best!)
Elecia's Wordy project on Hackaday
Magnetoception in humans is controversial (wiki) but the magnetometer/motor anklet is neat.
Bill Winterberg (@BillWinterberg) chatted with Elecia about leaving embedded engineering to become a financial planner then to being a technology adviser to other financial planners.
Bill's company is FPPad. You can subscribe to his newsletter and watch Bits and Bytes, his video blog (or read it).
Bill and Elecia met at LeapFrog. Bill was instrumental in making the original LeapPad Learning System.
When Elecia mentioned Domini Social Investments, Bill mentioned Vanguard Total Stock Market.
Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance In Your Twenties and Thirties
Financial adviser networks:
Robo-advisor (automated investment management)
Bill says: "It shouldn't be this hard for smart engineers."
Chris Svec (@christophersvec) has an idea about adding empathy to software development. It is a good idea.
His blog is Said Svec. He works for iRobot and they are hiring. (Chris' email is given toward the end of the show but if you hit the contact link here, we'll pass along info to him.)
Embedded has an episode devoted to impostor syndrome.
O'Reilly's Head First book series is pretty awesome.
Elecia is still talking about Thinking, Fast and Slow as a great way to understand brains. Chris Svec also recommends Make It Stick.
The Richard Hamming quote came from his address to the Naval Postgraduate School. The whole lecture is available on YouTube.
Sophi Kravitz (@SophiKravitz, G+) joined us to talk about working on neat things: Wobble World, Oculus Rift, Unity, goldfish training, and BlueStamp Engineering.
Sophi's company is Mix Engineering
Leap Motion vs. Microsoft Kinect
Quit Your Day Job on Element14, previously on Super Green Dot
Ron Sparks (@txNgineer, AG5RS) spoke with us about the convergence of makers and ham radio enthusiasts.
The alternative internet: AMPRNet (wiki) aka 44 net
South Texas Balloon Launch Team
SatNOGS (their site, their hackaday entry, and the video Elecia liked)
Weak Signal Propagation Reporter Network ("whisper"). Also on wiki.
Glenn Scott and Nacho Solis spoke with Elecia about content-centric networking, being research scientists, and working at PARC.
[Note: Elecia was the recording engineer and her inexperience showed by not hitting that other little button on the software. Nacho's mic ended up bad but Chris mostly fixed it... the sound gets better after the first five minutes.]
Twitter: Nacho (@isolis), CCN (@projectccnx), and PARC (@PARCInc)
CCNX website (includes contact link)
CCN enabled Riot OS
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