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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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 herCoastermelt 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
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.) fromScientific American (with real science) or in easy-to-follow picture form on genome.gov.
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.
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