502: Chat, J'ai Peté!
Chris and Elecia talk about Murderbot, LLMs (AI), bikes, control algorithms, and fancy math. The website with the ecology jobs is wildlabs.net from 501: inside the Armpit of Giraffe with Meredith Pa...
3 Jun 20251h 8min
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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mar 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 Mar 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
