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New ways to think STEM with Zyrobotic's Dr. Ayanna Howard Aug 02, 2019

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Dr. Howard has over 20 years of R&D experience covering a number of projects that have been supported by various agencies including: NASA, ExxonMobil, Intel, and the Grammy Foundation. She continues to produce research focused on assistive robots in the home to therapy gaming apps to remote robotic exploration of extreme environments. Scott talks to Dr. Howard about her thoughts on new ways to teach STEM and challenges our idea of what a "robot" should look like.

Zyrobotics Apps on the iOS App Store
http://zumolearning.com/

Learning about nanotechnology and molecular biology with Upulie Divisekera Jul 25, 2019

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Upulie Divisekera is an Australian molecular biologist and science communicator. She's the co-founder of Real Scientists, an outreach program that uses performance and writing to communicate science. She schools Scott on all things tiny - the science of nanotechnology and its applications!

Creating video games with C# and Monogame with Tom Spilman Jul 18, 2019

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Tom Spilman is a programmer, founder, and co-owner at Sickhead Games, a Dallas-based indie game development studio, and a project lead on the MonoGame open source game framework. Scott talks to Tom about MonoGame, a free C# framework used by game developers to make games for nearly any platform!

Understanding ethical debt in AI product development with Lauren Maffeo Jul 11, 2019

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Machine bias in artificial intelligence is a known and unavoidable problem—but it is not unmanageable. Scott talks to Lauren Maffeo about practical techniques teams can use to manage priorities in AI. You can monitor your datasets throughout the product lifecycle, focus on the subject, not the context, and more.

Burning Rocket Fuel and exploring careers in STEM with Dr. Corey Frazier Jul 04, 2019

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Dr. Frazier is an Engineering Manager at Intel's High Performance Computing group, and previously worked at the United Space Alliance working on 13 safe and successful Space Shuttle missions. He and Scott talk about his experience in engineering and science and what motivates him to give back.

Hanselminutiae 19 with Richard Campbell Jun 27, 2019

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Scott and Richard Campbell talk often and when they do they think, "we should have recorded this!" Hanselminutiae are those shows! In this episode they talk about the PyPortal from AdaFruit, rewiring your house for ethernet, how .NET transformed itself, and more!

Methods to Organize Your Learning Process with Lourdes Montano Jun 20, 2019

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As developers we need to learn new technologies fast, and often. Scott talks to Lourdes Montano about her learning process and how she's formalized her learning process to more effectively learn JavaScript and CSS.

Methods to Organize Your Learning Process in CSS - CascadiaFest 2016

Saving the SpaceOrb360 with open source hardware and software with Vic Putz Jun 13, 2019

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Vic Putz continues to carry a torch for the SpaceOrb, as do I, except he's actually doing something about it. Vic has been working on a new version called the Orbotron 9001 for the last few years that is an interface for the SpaceOrb to modern systems. Scott talks to Vic about their shared love of this 25 year old controller and why the world is missing out on the magic of 6 degrees of freedom.

http://www.thingotron.com
https://www.x360ce.com
https://playoverload.com
https://www.dxx-rebirth.com

How to build an inclusive conference with Saron Yitbarek Jun 06, 2019

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Saron Yibarek started the CodeNewbie community because it was hard to find truly welcoming places for new coders. Now she's made CodeLand and let me tell you, it's an amazing developer conference that sets a new bar for what it means to be welcoming. How did she do it and why?

http://codelandconf.com

The magic of Software Defined Radio with Ben Hilburn May 30, 2019

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Ben Hilburn is the Director of Engineering at DeepSig Inc., which is commercializing the fundamental research behind deep learning applied to wireless communications and signal processing. He also runs GNU Radio, the most widely used open-source signal processing toolkit in the world, serving as Project Lead and President of The GNU Radio Foundation. Ben talks to Scott about why Software Defined Radio is magical and they talk about how SDR can be used to teach STEM and solve interesting engineering problems.

https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/wireless-networks-and-cancer-rates
https://bhilburn.org/software-radio-all-the-things/
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Spectrogram/
https://shinysdr.switchb.org/
Fourier series
http://visual-dsp.switchb.org/

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