Eric Hankinson (@Kumichou) tells us about the new embedded software components of Contextual Electronics. There is a 10% coupon announced in the show, good until June.
CE uses the ST-Nucleo-F030R8 board.
Eric's blog is www.erichankinson.com and his day job is at LeanDog.
The Amp Hour episode with Chris and Elecia is 281: Crossovers and Call-ins
Christopher (@stoneymonster) and Elecia (@logicalelegance) inflict lightning round on each other, talk about their new favorite toys, and get momentarily serious about performance reviews.
Elecia is looking for a datasheet for the SunPlus SPHE8104GW. Not the 8200. This is not something Google-able. It probably requires knowing the right person, but if you do (or if you are the right person), please help.
Tickle is the IOS app to program the Sphero BB-8 (and many other robots) in the kids programming language Scratch
Automatic: BLE car monitoring
The Cheerson CX-10 is the base model quadcopter Elecia and Chris have been playing with. They flew a CX-10C with its 0.3MP video camera off a cliff at beach (but it didn't record the video).
Elecia's self-evaluation for 2014 year is on her blog
Python library for mashing binaries into other forms is IntelHex
Elecia couldn't find the .map file scripts she was thinking of though one on stackoverflow was pretty close
FIRST Robotics is way to get students of all ages into robotics. Former participant and dedicated mentor, Michael Hill (@Michael_A_Hill) tells us about FIRST and how we can get involved.
Official site: FIRSTInspires.org which also has a list of volunteer roles and qualifications
Forums are at ChiefDelphi.com
This year's theme is FIRST STRONGHOLD and was designed in collaboration with Disney. There is a trailer on YouTube (expect castles!).
One of the NI control units is the RoboRIO (not the nearly-already-a-robot RIO Robot we linked to initially, thank you Alan Anderson!)
Micheal's team is Innovators Robotics.
Chris and Elecia will be helping out on The Amp Hour call in show, recording January 6,2015. If you'd like to chat, hit our contact link or email feedback@theamphour.com. Please include your name, location, Skype name and what you hope to discuss on air.
Sarah and Abi Hodsdon speak with us about being a maker family.
Sarah's site and blog are Sarahndipitous Designs, her twitter handle is @sarahndipitous.
The online K-12 school they use is Connections Academy.
Making Makers by AnnMarie Thomas is a book about encouraging kids toward making.
Backyard Ballistics by William Gurstelle is an excellent addition to any library.
Giwishes is a massive global scavenger hunt.
Some learning sites the Hodsdon's recommend include:
For e-textiles and wearables, they recommend:
Alvaro Prieto (@alvaroprieto) spoke with us about laser turrets, tearing down quadcopters, flux capacitors, the moon, and culture at work.
Alvaro's github repositories including Proto-X quadcopter information, Silta bus monitoring, and Skype video message exporter for OSX.
One of the inspirations for taking apart the Proto-X was watching Micah talk about her Coastermelt project. We talked to her about it on episode 101: Taking Apart the Toaster.
One of his reasons for going to Planet Labs was knowing Shaun Meehan, check out his Amp Hour interview.
Daemon by Daniel Suarez
Video of Supercon talk on laser shooting robots
Podcast Award nominations open in early 2016
Getting a picture of the moon in stereo requires some planning especially in 1949 when Alvaro's great-grandfather took these.
On the slide are two images of the moon that combine to create a nicely stereo image.
We ask Matt Berggren (@technolomaniac) to envision an ideal world of product creation.
Matt's Spartan 6 FPGA shield is on the Hackaday Store. Its build process is documented on Hackaday.io. You can see Matt's other projects on Hackaday.io/matt.
Matt works for SupplyFrame.
Wishbone is the open source bus system that Elecia likened to ARM's AHB/APB.
Simon Monk (@simonmonk2) talks with us about zombies and writing books.
Simon has 20+ books out, check out his Amazon author page or his web page for a full listing (simonmonk.org). Some you might want sooner rather than later include:
30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius
Kits for building some of the projects from Simon's books can be found at Monk Makes. (@monkmakes).
🐔=🦃+1 (or Why isn't there a duck emoji?)
Christopher and Elecia talk about languages, twitter, listener emails, and Star Wars.
The Amp Hour talked about languages, they also referenced this compiler writing exercise
C alternative tokens iso646.h and an up to date C reference (Harbison and Steele)
$20 Linux board from vocore.io
Real Strawberry DNA extraction technique (Elecia forgot the soap and the salt.) from Scientific American (with real science) or in easy-to-follow picture form on genome.gov.
Elecia went to Hackaday's SuperCon, got to announce the Hackaday Prize 2015 winners, then talked to the organizers about their conference.
The guests this week were (in order of appearance):
Adam promised us a list of contributors to the goodie bag. Here it is!
Peter Doktor, Elecia White, Ben Krasnow, Windell Osklay, and Sophi Kravtiz get ready to announce the Hackaday Prize 2015 winner
Dan Shapiro (@danshapiro), CEO of Glowforge (@glowforge), speaks with us about laser cutters and his book, The Hot Seat.
If you succumb to the wonder of 3D laser printers, consider using our Glowforge link so you get $100 (and we get $100).
Dan's book, the one Elecia gushes about, is The Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook. Some of that information is also found in Dan's blog.
If you are in the Seattle area, Glowforge is hiring! Check out their jobs page.
We didn't talk much about Robot Turtles, a game to teach programming principles to preschoolers.(Also on Amazon.)
There is another interesting interview with Dan at Tested.com.
Windell Oskay (@Oskay) of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories (@EMSL) told us about co-authoring a book: The Annotated Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory.
Some great EMSL links:
The book Chris brought up was Thinking Physics.
Windell is also on Google Plus.
Contest to get Windell's signed book ends 11/13, send in your entry!
Bob Coggeshall (@BobCoggeshall) runs a boutique assembly house. And he co-wrote sudo. There are sandwich jokes.
Bob's business is Small Batch Assembly (@SmallBatchA). (There might be a discount on your first order near the end of the show. Maybe.) His pick and place machine is a Mancorp MC400.
Octopart's Common Parts Library
We mentioned OSHPark a few times, Laen has been on Embedded.fm: 92: Everybody Behave, Please
Boldport makes nonlinear traces (SEAHORSE!!)
How did we not know about Astromech.net?
Bob's Wifi Nixie driver board (also: how Nixie tubes work)
Chris and Elecia try out their new recording location, give advice for getting a job in embedded software, and respond to listener emails.
SparkFun's Pit of Despair is a blog post about how to create products from prototypes.
Visual Studio has plug-ins that support microprocessors, see Visual Micro.
The Guardian reports that 2016 VW models have a different defeat.
We spoke with Fran Blanche (@contourcorsets) of Frantone about guitar tone.
Fran has several articles and posts about space, electronics, and assorted whatnot at her design writings page. Her video blog is on YouTube.
There are many different guitar pedals you can build for yourself as a way to get a better handle on analog electronics. Elecia found these at Mammoth Electronics.
The song that was the first to have flanging was "The Big Hurt" by Toni Fisher in 1959.
Kathleen Sidenblad discusses her career through Silicon Valley, from engineer at Systems Control Inc in 1976 to VP of Engineering today.
For more about Kathy, check out this Storehouse interview.
Ben Krasnow of the Applied Science YouTube channel talks with us about scanning electron microscopes, generating liquid nitrogen, and cookies.
Hackaday Conference is Nov 14-15, 2015 in SF, CA! Call for proposals. (Ben and Elecia are Hackaday Prize Judges.)
Contact Ben through twitter: @BenKrasnow
Applied Science YouTube channel (and don't forget the associated Patreon). Some specific videos we talked about:
Other people's videos and projects:
Amscope microscope and low cost hot air rework soldering station
Morgan Allen (@captain_morgan) spoke with us about Sphero and Node.JS. This is all not-so-secretly a discussion of the BB8 robot.
Correction: Despite Elecia's repeated insistence that these are steppers, she's just wrong. The motors are DC which only makes sense in a consumer product. More details on this in a later episode.
BB8s from Amazon (probably won't arrive until next year)
More info on Elecia's teardown and talk: embedded.fm/hddg
The BB8 toy is based on Sphero (buy). They have an open SDK and a wonderful education program. Check out the clear SPRK (buy). It also has a teach-your-kids-to-program app that is pretty neat (but doesn't seem to work with BB8 yet).
Morgan has been involved with NodeBots (@nodebotsSF). They use Node.js (wiki) to send Bluetooth serial commands to Spheros. Their issues list is where new meetups are posted.
Johnny-Five is also a popular way to do computer based robotics with an Arduino (or other dev board) as a hardware intermediary.
IPFS: Distributed file system
ESPruino is a Javascript board.
People's Open: Free Wireless Internet and Local Network in Oakland, California. Also in Oakland, check out Sudo Room hackerspace.
Chris and Elecia discuss listener emails and other assorted topics.
BLE 4.2 writeup from EETimes and the FAQ from Bluetooth.org
Drones should follow existing aviation keep out standards (Nick links us to some wiki pages)
Glenn Scott (@GlennCScott) spoke with us about API design and techniques for writing good software.
Glenn glossed over his bio but it is quite impressive. You can reach him via his PARC page.
PARC's Content Centric Networking home: ccnx.org which we talked about in 75: End Up in a Puppy Fight.
Literate Programming by Knuth
And the more recommended Bob Martin's books
While latest source code requires licensing, the binary version of CCN includes the LongBow tools (in user/local/parc/bin). Description of tools and doxygen docs. The LongBow getting started guide should be part of the mid-September binary release.
Daniel Hienzsch (@rheingoldheavy) spoke with us about reverse engineering a board, bypass capacitors, and serial protocols.
Rheingold Heavy is Dan's company for educational boards. The one he started with was the I2C and SPI education board (its fulfilled kickstarter page). He brought us the the Graphic Equalizer Kit and Bubble Display Experimentation Pack.
Dan's Arduino from Scratch blog series looks at the Arduino hardware in great detail.
Contextual Electronics course for learning to build boards
Chris wrote about his Photon based garage door opener on the Linker blog
TinEye for searching schematic snippets
Goodies.