501: Inside the Armpit of a Giraffe
We spoke with ecologist Dr. Meredith Palmer and embedded engineer Akiba about lions, terror, and technology. Akiba works for FreakLabs.org on global conservation projects. We talked about their Boomb...
15 Maj 20251h 20min
500: Nerding Out About the Ducks
Komathi Sundaram spoke with us about her enthusiasm for tests and test automation. We talked about the different joys of testing vs. development, setting up CI servers, and different kinds of tests in...
2 Maj 20251h 7min
499: This Is Your Problem
We spoke with Janet Hansen about the world of professional costumery (with electronics) and becoming an artist. Janet's business is Enlighted where you can find custom illuminated clothing as well as ...
17 Apr 202550min
498: To Consume Stickers
At the end of this week's show, Elecia reads a Winnie the Pooh poem as Cookie Monster death metal. Before that, Chris and Elecia chat about mental health, journaling, personal projects, and listener q...
4 Apr 20251h 6min
497: Everyone Likes Tiny
OpenMV has a new Kickstarter so CEO Kwabena Agyeman chatted with us about more powerful (and smaller!) programmable cameras. See OpenMV's site for their existing cameras. See their (already funded!)...
20 Mars 20251h 24min
496: Beauty, Elegance, Consistency
Professor Shimon Schocken spoke with us about teaching computer science from NAND logic gates to arithmetic units, micro assembly, virtual machines, compilers, operating systems, and the Tetris games....
6 Mars 202559min
495: Shortcut the Difficulties of Reality
Professor Cindy Harnett spoke to us about new and different sensors and actuators, primarily designed for soft robotics and fabricated with relatively low cost materials. Cindy is a professor of elect...
21 Feb 20251h 1min
494: All Tech Is Wearable
Debra Ansell joined us to talk about finding friends and exchanging neat gifts, accidentally tricking people into making unmanufacutable boards, and happy, blinking lights. Debra is usually known by t...
7 Feb 20251h 15min
