The Embedded.fm Patreon Slack group and I put together an embedded skills tree with the help of Steph Piper (aka MakerQueen). You can find a template in Steph’s github repository (where she has on for 3D Printing and Modelling too!). Embedded Skills Tree PDF ..read more

I am getting ready to teach a 10-week embedded systems course at Classpert. There will be video lectures with quizzes, homework and reading, synchronous classes with discussions, and a critiqued portfolio-worthy final project. The course is centered around my book, Making Embedded Systems. We’ll go through the book chapter by chapter. The video lectures expand on what’s in the book, going through much larger examples than fit in the book as well going through code and datasheets. My goal is to make it seem like we were sitting at a desk where I’m showing you in more detail what I meant in the ..read more

I was showing someone a map file; they were kind of amazed at all this information. I’m glad I got to be there for the realization. And to help them through the first wall of impenetrable hex. When I was invited to do a talk at the Embedded Online Conference 2020, I wanted to talk about something deeply technical, something people could potentially use in their jobs today. Putting those two events in the same week meant I knew what I was going to present. And once I got started making a D&D style map to represent memory map files, well, it was hard to stop the giggling. I’m very pleased th ..read more

I gave a presentation about my love of curved crease origami, math, and snails to a Harvey Mudd College mini-conference. I only had ten minutes to speak so it was… a little fast. The video is below. The slides (available on github) show I had a few extras that got cut. I made a version of the origami snail generating Python script that can run in a browser (also available on github. Turbinator.py ..read more

Elecia gave a talk at the Embedded Online Conference 2021 about how to use memory map files. The talk is not yet available to the public but you can see the slides and files here! Slides Memory Map Land Image Also at Inkarnate where I put it together And at Society6 which is rumored to produce good prints Hello.map and Hello.cmd linker file (TI processor) Map file for the BLE and Zigbee application (TI processor) Map file for Circuit Python on the SEEDunio via GCC Created via Inkarnate ..read more

 For a limited time, we are offering tshirts! The design is wild and awesome, honoring some of our favorite show titles. Short-sleeved are here. You can also get long-sleeved tshirts. This is the back. Imagine if all the show titles got together to have a party to build a Rube Goldberg machine. The front of the shirt is pretty cool too! If the robot/radio head is a variable cap and the Embedded is a diode… It’s a radio circuit! As for the titles on the back, we have a list of show titles, all up to date and everything ..read more

This post is cross-posted from https://chrissvec.com/advice-for-working-from-home/. Last week I had the privilege to speak with a class of Purdue electrical & computer engineering students about remote work. Like many universities Purdue has gone all-remote for the spring 2020 semester, and I was invited to share my work-from-home experiences from 5+ years of working full time remote. I’m a proud Purdue alum (BSEE 1999, MSECE 2002) and I hope my advice was at least a little helpful for the students. Purdue posted a link to the full talk, including Q&A (which is not included here): http ..read more

The Embedded podcast recently released our 300th episode. We are having a party to celebrate! If you’d like to join us, the RSVP link is in the first minute of episode 300 or you can hit the contact link on Embedded.fm and I’ll share it with you ..read more

As I mentioned in Embedded episode 290: Rule of Thumbs, I’ve been going to a writing group to learn how to give better feedback. The writing help has been great but I’m really there to watch how people put together their criticisms and how other people accept those criticisms (or not). I’ve mentioned this to my writing group, but I don’t think they got it since they are still reading my extremely silly novel. Every month we each send out a chapter or around ten pages. We read each other’s pages, mark them up, meet, go around the table to give our feedback, then hand over our marked pages. I tr ..read more

Do you want a list of all the Embedded episodes? Maybe you are wondering if we had a particular person on or you’re starting to get into a topic and want to hear a show about it? Right now, for a limited time only, the list of embedded episodes is current and complete.** ** I’m not planning to take the link down. It is a limited time offer only because it won’t stay current for very long. I try to update it every few weeks but 80 episodes had gone by since the last update so “every few weeks” is … inexact ..read more