Podcast Episodes

Nerding Out About the Ducks

Episode 500

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 i…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

This Is Your Problem

Episode 499

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…

Published on 5 months ago

To Consume Stickers

Episode 498

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 liste…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Everyone Likes Tiny

Episode 497

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!…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Beauty, Elegance, Consistency

Episode 496

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…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Shortcut the Difficulties of Reality

Episode 495

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 elec…

Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

All Tech Is Wearable

Episode 494

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 …

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Put the Peeps in the Chili Pot

Episode 493

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 th…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Octopus Army

Episode 492

Nathan Jones chatted with us about his proposal for a computer architecture book based on a 4-bit computer. 

Nathan found the 4-bit computer in the Hackaday SuperCon 2022 badge and was amazed by som…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Oscillators Oscillating Other Oscillators

Episode 491

Chris and Elecia spoke with Kirk Pearson about running audio-electronic-art workshops, interesting sounds, and their book Make: Electronic Music from Scratch: A Beginner's Guide to Homegrown Aud…

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago