350: The State of the Empire Is Good
Embedded6 Nov 2020

350: The State of the Empire Is Good

Ben Hencke (@ledmage, @im889) updated us on blinking lights and running a small hardware business. You can find the current PixelBlaze in the Electomage store on Tindie (tindie.com/stores/electromage/) or signup for a shiny new version on CrowdSupply.

Ben's personal site (bhencke.com) has lots of projects including a page devoted to the awesome Pixelblaze projects (including the BioTronEsis alien light sea creatures which someone who hosts this show hopes will be in her Christmas stocking).

When Ben is making Pixelblaze, the brand is ElectroMage (electromage.com/) so you can see more about Pixelblaze there including the forum.

We didn't talk about TapGlo, the arcade ping pong table that Ben is also working on.

Favorite solder paste: LOCTITE GC 10 paste (henkel-adhesives)

About his favorite acronym, Ben says, "XMLHttpRequest is my favorite because it perfectly illustrates how we're (developers) bad at naming things and like to come up with arbitrary rules for things. The story about how XML is all caps and Html is camel case is just too perfect, and it's popular use rarely has anything to do with XML"

Finally, There are 40 different flavors of Kit Kat. There are 12 flavors of candy corn, they all taste the same.

Episoder(569)

522: The Information Is In Poop

522: The Information Is In Poop

Sonia Grego speaks with us about a topic no one likes to talk about, but could be used to monitor personal dietary health and widespread disease outbreaks. Toilets! Sonia leads Duke University's Smart...

6 Mar 54min

521: Are You The Tiny Domino?

521: Are You The Tiny Domino?

Kenneth Finnegan entertained us with stories about accidentally contributing to the internet's ability to network. Wondering how the internet works? All those terms about IPv4, IPv6, BGP, OSPF, CDN an...

20 Feb 1h 3min

520: All Sorts of Interesting Facts About Teeth

520: All Sorts of Interesting Facts About Teeth

Chris and Elecia apologize, discuss uses and abuses of chatbots, reach out to an uncertain manager, try to help someone out of their professor's draconian rules, and extol the joys of reading.  Chabot...

6 Feb 58min

519: The Password Is All Zeros

519: The Password Is All Zeros

Mark Omo and James Rowley spoke with us about safecracking, security, and the ethics of doing a bad job. Mark and James gave an excellent talk on the development of their safecracking tools at DEF CON...

23 Jan 1h 6min

518: Nothing We Can Do About Frogs

518: Nothing We Can Do About Frogs

James Cameron spoke with us about programming for and operating a large telescope. The show is a blend of astronomy, engineering on the fly, and weird lady bug habitats.  The Anglo-Australian Telescop...

9 Jan 1h 8min

517: A Direct, Sensible Podcast

517: A Direct, Sensible Podcast

Nathan Jones and Chris Svec give Chris and Elecia their 2025 performance review.  Donations went to Elevate Tutoring, an organization that provides funding and support to low-income and first-generati...

2 Jan 1h 1min

516: Voices From the Cataclysms of the Universe

516: Voices From the Cataclysms of the Universe

Sophi Kravitz joined us to talk about art, science, and engineering.  You can see Messages from Space on Sophi's website /sophikravitz.com). A subset of the artwork had a short stay for a demo at Chab...

12 Des 202558min

515: Script Boomers

515: Script Boomers

Nick Kartsioukas joined us to talk about security in embedded systems.  Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is the primary database to check your software libraries, tools, and OSs: cve.org. Op...

27 Nov 20251h 10min

Populært innen Vitenskap

fastlegen
rekommandert
jss
tingenes-tilstand
liberal-halvtime
sinnsyn
rss-rekommandert
forskningno
tomprat-med-gunnar-tjomlid
rss-nysgjerrige-norge
villmarksliv
dekodet-2
fjellsportpodden
rss-paradigmepodden
smart-forklart
kvinnehelsepodden
tidlose-historier
nevropodden
utenrikshospitalet
rss-lundqvist-podden