493: Put the Peeps in the Chili Pot
Embedded24 Jan 2025

493: Put the Peeps in the Chili Pot

Elecia and Chris talk with each other about the state of Chris' mind, what makes an embedded developer stand out, "LEGO block" based design, unit tests, and astronomy. Whew!

Elecia was recently on the Changelog podcast, talking about the world of embedded systems.

Chris has been working with Micropython (we talked with Damien George about Micropython on episode 456). He's using a Pyboard to start, but is looking to move on to this board from Sparkfun. Wikipedia has a nice reference on what the pulse-per-second signal is all about.

Elecia talked about her experience using CFFI to drive unit tests. She also talked about some facts from Information is Beautiful.

Chris' telescope is the ZWO Seestar S50. There's also a smaller Seestar S30 now which has a wider field-of-view.

Title reference (Chris and Elecia both thoroughly enjoyed The Good Place, the TV show this is taken from.)

Transcript

Nordic Semiconductor has been the driving force for Bluetooth Low Energy MCUs and wireless SoCs since the early 2010s, and they offer solutions for low-power Wi-Fi and global Cellular IoT as well. If you plan on developing robust and battery-operated applications, check out their hardware, software, tools, and services.

On academy.nordicsemi.com, you'll find Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular IoT courses, and the Nordic DevZone community covers technical questions: devzone.nordicsemi.com.

Oh, and don't forget to enter Nordic Semiconductor's giveaway contest! Just fill out the entrance form, and you're in the running. Good luck!

Here's one of the astrophotos Chris has taken:

The Horsehead and Flame nebulae in Orion taken from a Seestar S50

Avsnitt(567)

472: Field of Boxes

472: Field of Boxes

Making Embedded Systems, 2nd Edition came out today! Chris and Elecia talk about the changes, the writing, but not the eldritch horror. Then we talk about pianos and origami. The electronic version i...

7 Mars 20241h 2min

471: Bicycle Built For Two

471: Bicycle Built For Two

Where electronics meets music, there is a board called Daisy. Created by ElectroSmith, Andrew Ikenberry, the goal of the board is to teach computers to sing. Andrew joined us to talk about music, audi...

22 Feb 202458min

470: Upping the Chaos Level

470: Upping the Chaos Level

Helen Leigh joined us to talk about putting together conferences (including Teardown 2024), indie hardware producers (including via Crowd Supply), and building communities. Teardown will be June 21-23...

9 Feb 20241h 16min

469: Saving the World Is Not a Hobby

469: Saving the World Is Not a Hobby

Chris and Elecia chat with each other about motor encoder reading methods, conferences coming up, soldering irons, schematic reviews, looking for a new job, and general life. Some conferences coming ...

28 Jan 20241h 4min

468: Designed to Kill All Humans

468: Designed to Kill All Humans

Anders Nielsen joined us to talk about why the 6502 is the best processor. Anders also sells 65uino kits on his store: imania.dk. For more explanation of what they are, how they work, attaching perip...

12 Jan 202456min

467: Temporary Axolotl

467: Temporary Axolotl

Chris and Elecia talk about cars, fleeting moments of fame, their year, and the sorry state of tools in the embedded space. Chris became internet famous for asking a car dealership's chatbot (powered ...

29 Dec 202352min

466: Attacked by a Goose on the Way to the Office

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 Dec 20231h 8min

465: Dinosaurs, Pirates, Spaceships

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 Dec 20231h 5min

Populärt inom Vetenskap

svd-nyhetsartiklar
p3-dystopia
dumma-manniskor
pojkmottagningen
allt-du-velat-veta
det-morka-psyket
kapitalet-en-podd-om-ekonomi
rss-experimentet
dumforklarat
rss-vetenskapsradion-2
halsorevolutionen
rss-ufo-bortom-rimligt-tvivel
medicinvetarna
rss-vetenskapsradion
paranormalt-med-caroline-giertz
bildningspodden
rss-spraket
sexet
vetenskapsradion
4health-med-anna-sparre