466: Attacked by a Goose on the Way to the Office
Ralph 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 ...
14 Joulu 20231h 8min
465: Dinosaurs, Pirates, Spaceships
Yanina 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 Wils...
1 Joulu 20231h 5min
464: Please Make This Monster Look Scary
Chris 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 Sys...
16 Marras 202359min
463: Layers of Band-Aids
Kevin 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 a...
2 Marras 202356min
462: Spontaneously High Performing
Marian 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 Un...
19 Loka 20231h 15min
461: Am I the Cow in This Scenario?
Chris 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 S...
5 Loka 202358min
460: I Don't Care What Your Math Says
Author, 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 conversatio...
28 Syys 20231h 19min
459: Ideas Have to Come From Somewhere
Professor 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 enco...
14 Syys 20231h 17min
