Latest Processor Podcast Episodes
480: Surprises Early In The Game
Embedded - June 27, 2024 22:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsJerry Twomey spoke with us about his new O’Reilly book Applied Embedded Electronics which covers embedded topics such as EMI, signal processing, control systems and non-ideal components. Jerry is also the principal engineer at Effective Electrons. His articles are linked from there and you can...
479: Make Your Voice Heard
Embedded - June 13, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsCarles Cufí spoke with us about Zephyr, Nordic, learning, open source development, and corporate goals. Carles had some great suggestions for learning Zephyr: Memfault Interrupt Practical Zephyr blog series Nordic’s Developer Academy Zephyr’s Discord server Zephyr’s YouTube channel (@Zep...
478: The Map Is Not the Territory
Embedded - May 30, 2024 23:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsJan Rychter joined us to talk about building a company, electronic components, and software design. Jan is the founder and engineer at PartsBox.com. If you are interested in the meta-analysis of the data, check out his article on the Top Ten Hobby Parts and the Electronic Component Database, ...
477: One Thousand New Instructions
Embedded - May 16, 2024 23:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsKwabena Agyeman joined Chris and Elecia to talk about optimization, cameras, machine learning, and vision systems. Kwabena is the head of OpenMV (openmv.io), an open source and open hardware system that runs machine learning algorithms on vision data. It uses MicroPython as a development envi...
Ep.8 | Unleashing the Power of Lenovo ISG: A Deep Dive into the Ingram Micro Solutions Centre
Ingram Micro Business & Technology Solutions - May 09, 2024 07:00 - 33 minutesIn this latest Ingram Micro Business & Technology Solutions episode, Bill Tirpkos sits down with industry experts Ayon and Roger to discuss the cutting-edge capabilities of Ingram Micro’s Solutions Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. This episode dives into the comprehensive services offered...
476: Sidetracked by Mining the Moon
Embedded - May 01, 2024 18:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsLee Wilkins joined Chris and Elecia to talk about The Open Source Hardware Association, the Open Hardware Summit, and zine culture. The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) provides certification and support for creating open source hardware. The Open Hardware Summit is happening May 3-4, ...
475: Stuffed Animal or Colleague
Embedded - April 19, 2024 00:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsChris and Elecia talk about the Embedded Online Conference, their experience learning Zephyr, and some listener questions. Elecia will be presenting on Creating Chaos and Hard Faults at the Embedded Online Conference, Apr 29 - May 3, 2024. Some other talks that look interesting: The Power o...
474: It's All Chaos and Horror
Embedded - April 05, 2024 02:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsLogic gates and origami? Professor Inna Zakharevich joined us to talk about Turing complete origami crease patterns. We started talking about Turing completeness which led to a Conway’s Game of Life-like 2D cellular automaton called Rule 110 (Wikipedia) which can be implemented with logic ga...
473: Math Is Not the Answer
Embedded - March 21, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsPhilip Koopman joined us to talk about how modulo 255 vs 256 makes a huge difference in checksum error detection, how to get the most out of your checksum or CRC, and why understanding how they work is worth the effort. Philip has recently published Understanding Checksums and Cyclic Redunda...
472: Field of Boxes
Embedded - March 07, 2024 23:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsMaking Embedded Systems, 2nd Edition came out today! Chris and Elecia talk about the changes, the writing, but not the eldritch horror. Then we talk about pianos and origami. The electronic version is available now on Amazon, ebooks.com, Google Play and where you get your ebooks. The paper ...
471: Bicycle Built For Two
Embedded - February 22, 2024 23:16 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsWhere electronics meets music, there is a board called Daisy. Created by ElectroSmith, Andrew Ikenberry, the goal of the board is to teach computers to sing. Andrew joined us to talk about music, audio processing, instruments, product design, and electronic manufacturing. See the Electrosmith...
470: Upping the Chaos Level
Embedded - February 09, 2024 00:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsHelen Leigh joined us to talk about putting together conferences (including Teardown 2024), indie hardware producers (including via Crowd Supply), and building communities. Teardown will be June 21-23 in Portland, OR, USA. More information about attending or presenting. Early bird tickets are ...
469: Saving the World Is Not a Hobby
Embedded - January 28, 2024 02:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsChris and Elecia chat with each other about motor encoder reading methods, conferences coming up, soldering irons, schematic reviews, looking for a new job, and general life. Some conferences coming up in the embedded space: Embedded Online, April 29-May 4, virtual (Elecia will be speaking) ...
468: Designed to Kill All Humans
Embedded - January 12, 2024 00:09 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsAnders Nielsen joined us to talk about why the 6502 is the best processor. Anders also sells 65uino kits on his store: imania.dk. For more explanation of what they are, how they work, attaching peripherals, and programming in assembly, look at Anders’ YouTube channel @AndersNielsenAA, read hi...
467: Temporary Axolotl
Embedded - December 29, 2023 01:04 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsChris and Elecia talk about cars, fleeting moments of fame, their year, and the sorry state of tools in the embedded space. Chris became internet famous for asking a car dealership’s chatbot (powered by ChatGPT) to generate Python code for fluid dynamics problems. After this, someone else aske...
466: Attacked by a Goose on the Way to the Office
Embedded - December 14, 2023 23:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsRalph Hempel spoke with us about the development of Lego Mindstorms from hacking the initial interface to running Debian Linux as well as programming Mindstorms in Python. Happy 25th birthday to Lego Mindstorms! Pybricks is a MicroPython based coding environment that works across all Lego Powe...
465: Dinosaurs, Pirates, Spaceships
Embedded - December 01, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsYanina Bellini Saibene joined us to discuss teaching, localization, barriers to learning coding, and global communities. Yani works on Teach Tech Together (https://teachtogether.tech/) with Greg Wilson. It is a fantastic resource if you are learning to teach. It is available in English and Sp...
464: Please Make This Monster Look Scary
Embedded - November 16, 2023 23:47 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsChris and Elecia talk about their favorite processors, their breakfast preferences, large language model ethics, presents, and Eeyore's birthday. Elecia’s new edition of her book Making Embedded Systems is finished! (Except for a couple months of tech reviews, updating, copyediting, and dra...
463: Layers of Band-Aids
Embedded - November 02, 2023 23:16 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsKevin Lannen is an embedded systems engineer making powered wheelchairs safer. This sounded interesting to us. Kevin works at LUCI Mobility (luci.com). Check out their tear jerker introduction video as well as technical description of over-the-air update concerns on smart wheelchairs. We also ...
462: Spontaneously High Performing
Embedded - October 19, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsMarian Petre spoke to us about her research on how to make software developers better at developing software. Marian is an Emeritus Professor of the School of Computing & Communications at the Open University in the United Kingdom. She also has a Wikipedia page. The short version of How Exp...
461: Am I the Cow in This Scenario?
Embedded - October 05, 2023 23:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsChris and Elecia discuss the pros and cons of completing one project or starting a dozen. Elecia’s 2nd edition of Making Embedded Systems is coming out in March. (Preview is on O’Reilly’s Learning System.) She’s working on a companion repository that is already filled with links and goodies:...
460: I Don’t Care What Your Math Says
Embedded - September 28, 2023 23:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsAuthor, engineer, manager, and professor, Dr. Greg Wilson joined Elecia to talk about teaching, science in computer science, ethics, and policy. The request for curriculum that started the conversation was the Cost of Change, part of NeverWorkInTheory which summarizes scientific literature abo...
459: Ideas Have to Come From Somewhere
Embedded - September 14, 2023 22:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsProfessor AnnMarie Thomas spoke with us about playful learning through joy, whimsy, surprise, and meeting new people. We also spoke with AnnMarie about how adults can foster an environment that encourages innovation. See more about that (and the interviews of various engineers and makers) in...
458: Fiddling, DIY, and Cursing
Embedded - August 31, 2023 23:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsTrond Snekvik spoke with us about developing VSCode extensions and Bluetooth meshes. Trond is a Staff Software Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor. Nordic’s Visual Studio Code Extensions include device tree and kconfig support for the Zephyr project as well as tools for nRF Connect. Trond’s...
457: Rubber Duck Phase Cancellation
Embedded - August 17, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsChris and Elecia chat about their ongoing efforts to create and learn. Then they answer some listener questions. Duck quacks do echo but the echoes seem to align in phase so that there is no interruption making the echo sounds like an extension of the quack (Mythbusters episode in which Jamie...
456: Left Right Symmetry of a Banana
Embedded - August 03, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsDamien George spoke with us about developing with and for MicroPython while Elecia tries not to spill all the secrets about her client. To start at the beginning, you probably want to check out micropython.org. Wait, no, one step back. Before listening to the show, you probably should read the...
455: Snaps!
Embedded - July 20, 2023 23:52 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsNatalie Friedman joins us to discuss when, where, how, and why robots should wear clothing. Natalie is a PhD candidate at Cornell Tech. Natalie’s website is natalie-friedman.com and you can find her papers in the research section. She has an Instagram account: @natalie.victoria.f AIForGood ...
454: Printf Hello
Embedded - July 06, 2023 23:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsUri Shaked surprises us with a chat about silicon design when we were expecting to talk about a web-based board simulator. If you want to try your hand at silicon design, check out Tiny Tapeout, a way to possibly get your design on to real silicon. The digital design guide is a great way to s...
453: Too Dumb to Quit
Embedded - June 22, 2023 23:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsNathan Jones has been talking about building command line interfaces, good design practices in C, creating MCU boards, wielding the PIC of destiny, and going beyond Arduino. As we are too lazy to attend the conferences, we asked him to give us the highlights. Nathan is giving two conference t...
452: Numbers on Computers Are Weird
Embedded - June 15, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 183 ratingsJulia Evans spoke with us about how computers compute. We discussed number representation including floating point as well as Julia’s extensive collection of ‘zines and comics. Julia’s zines about debugging, managers, Linux commands, and more are available on WizardZines.com. If you want sampl...