85: Stalked by Hoopers and Engineers
Scott Miller built a hula hoop with Bluetooth, an inertial measurement unit, a 32-bit processor, an 8-bit processor, and a slew of individually addressable LEDs. It makes wild patterns when you move. ...
21 Tammi 20151h 3min
84: You Can't Make Money Taking Tests
The founders of Bluestamp Engineering spoke with us about running a hands-on summer engineering program for high school students (while keeping their day jobs). Bluestamp website, Twitter (@BlueStampE...
14 Tammi 201553min
83: The First Time I Was Electrocuted
Raman Pi creator Mark Johnson (@flatCat_) spoke with us about spectrometers, 3D printing, and competing in the Hackaday Prize. Raman Pi project on Hackaday.io Hackaday prize semi-finalist video Mike ...
7 Tammi 20151h 3min
82: I Was a Chewbacca Person
Jen, Chris, and Elecia talk about the movies that influenced them to go into engineering. Real Genius (imdb, Amazon) Star Wars (imdb, Amazon) Choose Your Own Adventure books (Amazon, wiki) Wargames (i...
31 Joulu 20141h 14min
81: Two of Those People Can't Be Ducks
Chris and Elecia babble up a show about gifts, conferences, and makers. Embedded Systems Conference is put on by UBM. The conference is in Boston May 6-7, 2015, Santa Clara July 20-22, and Minneapolis...
17 Joulu 20141h 5min
80: Most of Us Are Human Beings
Bill Winterberg (@BillWinterberg) chatted with Elecia about leaving embedded engineering to become a financial planner then to being a technology adviser to other financial planners. Bill's company i...
10 Joulu 20141h 15min
79: Not as Efficient as the Borg
Vicky Tuite (@vixter55) came on the show to chat with Chris and Elecia about EVAOS, a company that upgrades Ford trucks into plug-in hybrids. Feminist Hacker Barbie She's Geeky Bay piggies (BayPIGgies...
4 Joulu 20141h 1min
78: Happy Cows
Chris Svec (@christophersvec) has an idea about adding empathy to software development. It is a good idea. His blog is Said Svec. He works for iRobot and they are hiring. (Chris' email is given toward...
25 Marras 20141h 7min
