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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Patrick Kane (@PSoC_Nation) is the director of the Cypress University Alliance, working with colleges to provide development kits and information to college (and high school) students.
Happily, Patrick brought Elecia a new dev kit: CY8CKIT-042.
Producer Christopher (@stoneymonster) joins Elecia to look through their mailbag and talk about gift ideas.
Podcasts we like:
Some listener suggestions on where to get small run boards made:
Gift ideas (specifics):
Gift ideas (stores):
James Grenning (@jwgrenning) joined Elecia to talk about how to be a good programmer using Test Driven Development (TDD).
James' excellent book on how to use TDD: Test Driven Development for Embedded Systems
Take a class from Renaissance Software
Manual test is not sustainable blog post, from James' blog
Legacy code challenge from Github
Iterative and Incremental Development article by Craig Larman
Untapped: the beer drinker's twitter
To get the signed copy of James' book, email (show@embedded.fm), tweet (@logicalelegance), or hit the contact link on embedded.fm with your number between 0-99. First one with the correct number wins the book (if no one is correct, the closest number will be selected 12/25/13).
Kathleen Vaeth of MicroGen Systems (@MicroGenSystems) spoke with Elecia (@LogicalElegance) about energy harvesting using MEMS devices.
Some introductory videos:
While we missed it on the show, Kathleen also wanted to mention MicroGen Systems' finite element modeling partners: SoftMEMS and Open Engineering.
Author Laura Lemay (@lemay) spoke with Elecia (@logicalelegance) about writing books, APIs, code, and science fiction.
Laura wrote many of the Teach Yourself ... in 21 Days books: her bibliography on Amazon.
Laura's blog includes short stories.
November is National Novel Writing Month, see the NaNoWriMo site
Edward Tufte wrote the amazing Envisioning Information (among many other beautiful and informative books)
Neal Stephenson wrote Diamond Age
Laura suggests Patrick Ness' The Knife of Never Letting Go
From the MEMS Industry Group Executive Congress:
From the 2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference:
In this in-depth technical discussion, Dr. Ken Lunde helps Elecia understand how to internationalize her (memory constrained) device.
CJVK Information Processing, Ken's excellent O'Reilly book on internationalization [Note: there is a 40% off print and 50% off ebook coupon in the last few minutes of the show.]
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
Images of the bone ideograph that is different between Chinese and Japanese (U+9AA8) can be found on Wikipedia.
Other sources of information:
Open source type faces
Adobe's open source projects and Ken's contribution to those:
You can also reach Ken via lunde "at" adobe.com
Jen Costillo surfaced briefly from her startup-induced blackout to share her wisdom about manufacturing consumer products. They discussed new product development and working from (and making modifications to) Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, CA. Jen and Elecia pined for this (probably not really a two pack) microscope.
Listener Jim Gf posed an interesting question about how to tell if you are a good embedded software engineer. Producer Christopher White joins Elecia to fail to give an answer. While they mention the embedded C test, they devolve into "why would you ask that question?", impostor syndrome, and methods for dealing with it.
(Normally our podcasts are recorded during the day but this one was after a long, fairly grueling day for the co-hosts. You may hear the clink of glass as we drank a nice Pinot Noir from Hahn Winery.)
Jeri Ellsworth joins Elecia to talk about about co-founding Technical Illusions and their virtual and augmented reality product CastAR. Jeri gives an in-depth introduction to virtual reality, augmented reality and motion sickness. They also talk about hardware engineers working with software engineers, the CastAR's Kickstarter, children's toys, and tagging sharks for science.
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