Stay ConnectedI am Elecia White alongside Christopher White. We’re here to chat about the interests, careers, and lives of engineers, artists, educators and makers. Our diverse guest list includes names you may have heard and engineers working quietly in the trenches. Either way, they are knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and inspiring.
We’d love to share our enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM).
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Robert J. Lang spoke with us about origami, art, math, and lasers.
Robert has many origami books, here is a subset:
Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art (the one we talked about most, has the hummingbird crease pattern)
Twists, Tilings, and Tessellations: Mathematical Methods for Geometric Origami (his new one, a textbook!)
Origami in Action: Paper Toys That Fly, Flap, Gobble, and Inflate (not a theory book, just fun folds)
Origami Sea Life (not mentioned but probably the book Elecia will be getting next)
Robert's website langorigami.com is full of neat goodies:
Origami design software including a pointer to the Origamizer by Tomohiro Tachi
Suggested other books:
Origami to Astonish and Amuse by Jeremy Shafer
Origamido has a number of books. Robert uses Origamido paper but it is unobtanium to most people. Unless you are in Maine.
(Note: book links are affiliate links, we get a little kickback if you buy from there.)
Chris and Elecia talked through how security holes can get explored on a fictional product.
Thanks to an Embedded listener who enjoyed hearing from Jacob Martinez about helping young adults have access to technology, we have a grant to match donations to DigitalNEST up to $2500. Donate here: give.digitalnest.org/embeddedfm
We talked through OWASP Top 10 Embedded Application Best Practices but OWASP Internet of Things and OWASP Mobile Security are also very useful.
GREAT explanation of buffer overflow attacks by Coen Goedegebure
Phoenix Perry (@phoenixperry) spoke with us about physical games. Phoenix is CTO of DoItKits (@DoItKits).
More about Phoenix:
Her site: PhoenixPerry.com
She enjoyed Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin
Physical games are sometimes called Alt Ctrl such as at the Alt Ctrl Game Jam.
Phoenix co-founded Code Liberation with Catt Small, Nina Freeman, and Jane Friedhoff. "Code Liberation catalyzes the creation of digital games and creative technologies by women, nonbinary, femme, and girl-identifying people to diversify STEAM fields." There is an 8-part workshop in London in Summer 2017 (more info).
Some other interesting people:
Helen Steer (http://doitkits.com/)
How to Get What You Want wearables site
I know you only read the show notes because you wanted this link: Velastat LessEMF has the supplies for ghost hunting!
Rick Altherr (@kc8apf) spoke with us about firmware security and mentoring.
Rick is a security researcher at Eclypsium. His personal website is kc8apf.net.
Rick's deeply technical dive into reverse engineering car ECUs and FPGA bitstreams was on the Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast, episode 24. He also spoke with Chris Gammell The Amp Hour 357 about monitoring servers, many many servers.
Firmware security links:
Elecia's Device Security Checklist (wasn't mentioned)
Thank you to our Embedded Patreon supporters, particularly to our corporate patron, InterWorking Labs (iwl.com).
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
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).
Pete Staples of Blue Clover Devices (bcdevices.com, @theiotodm) spoke with us about tools for manufacturing hardware.
Some posts and products from Blue Clover Devices:
How to write PLT Board Test Plans (using YAML)
Behind the scenes at factories:
Thank you to our Embedded Patreon supporters, particularly to our corporate patron, InterWorking Labs (iwl.com).
Jacob Martinez (@jacobotech) spoke with Elecia about DigitalNEST (@DigiNEST), a non-profit devoted to giving high school and college age students access to technology, job training, and career development. DigialNEST is based in the agricultural communities of Salinas and Watsonville, CA.
Students who work through the course tracks at DigitalNEST can be invited to join the BizzNEST consulting group.
The conference we spoke of was NEST Flight (nestflight.org), held in September in Watsonville.
DigitalNEST is a non-profit and is accepting individual and corporate donations: digitalnest.org/donate/.
Chris and Elecia explain when and why to use an operating system on a microcontroller (real-time or not).
Thank you to our Embedded Patreon supporters, particularly to our corporate patreon, InterWorking Labs (iwl.com).
Dr. Loretta Cheeks (@loretta_cheeks) spoke with us about implicit bias in text, machine learning, getting a PhD, and STEAM outreach via Strong Ties (strongtiesaz.org).
Also see:
Loretta's research on identifying implicit bias (The thumbnail image is from her work.)
Lotetta's TEDx talk on AI and remembering
Thank you to our Embedded Patreon supporters for Loretta's mic, particularly to our corporate sponsor, InterWorking Labs (iwl.com).
Amanda "w0z" Wozniak (@kainzowa) spoke with us about her career through biomedical engineering and startups.
Amanda contributed a chapter to Building Open Source Hardware: DIY Manufacturing. (A book we spoke with Alicia Gibb about in #289.) Amanda's chapter was titled Design Process: How to Get from Nothing to Something.
For more information about the companies we discussed, check out Amanda's LinkedIn page.
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