162: I Am a Boomerang Enthusiast (Repeat)
Valve's Alan Yates (@vk2zay) spoke with us about the science and technology of virtual reality. Elecia looked at the iFixIt Teardown of the HTC Vive system as she was unwilling to take apart Christop...
1 Mar 20191h 21min
279: Top Pedant
Patrick Yeon (@patyeon) spoke with us about nonprofit spaceships then asked our opinions about embedded software. Pat is working for something something nonprofit space something something. To fill in...
22 Feb 20191h 11min
278: Bricks' Batteries Last Forever
Matthew Liberty (@mliberty1) shared good advice for lowering power. We talk about different ways to measure current (Matt has a nice write-up) and things software can do to decrease power consumption....
15 Feb 20191h 6min
277: The Sport of Kings
Jie Qi (@qijie) spoke with us about making paper-based electronics (@Chibitronics) and learning about patent law (via @Patentpandas). Jie Qi is the founder of Chibitronics, a crafting electronics plat...
8 Feb 20191h 16min
276: Playing a Song on a Potato
Jesse Rutherford (@BentTronics) gave us an in-depth look at the 555 timer IC (wiki). Jesse runs Bent-tronics.com and wrote The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to the 555 Timer (Amazon). Some great 555 proje...
31 Jan 20191h 17min
275: Don't Do What the Computer Tells You
Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) shared truly weird responses from AIs. Her website is AIWeirdness.com where you can find machine-learning-generated ideas for paint colors, ice cream, and cocktails (a...
25 Jan 20191h 10min
274: Swiss Knife of Embedded Systems
Ivan Kravets (@ikravets) spoke with us about PlatformIO (@PlatformIO_Org), IDEs, embedded libraries, and RISC-V. PlatformIO is an editor, an integrated development environment with debugging and unit...
18 Jan 20191h 15min
273: Off the Topic of My Jammies
Chris and Elecia chat with each other about the new year. All is fine until she starts quizzing him about some language details of his new project. Many object-oriented resources suggest using composi...
11 Jan 201959min
