478: The Map Is Not the Territory

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 Nov 202359min

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 Nov 202356min

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 Okt 20231h 15min

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 Okt 202358min

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 Sep 20231h 19min

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 Sep 20231h 17min

Trond Snekvik spoke with us about developing VSCode extensions and Bluetooth meshes. Trond is a Staff Software Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor. Nordic's Visual Studio Code Extensions include device ...

31 Aug 20231h 11min

Chris and Elecia chat about their ongoing efforts to create and learn. Then they answer some listener questions. Duck quacks do echo but the echoes seem to align in phase so that there is no interrup...

17 Aug 20231h 12min