Hardware Podcasts

152: Dodecahedrocopter.com

Embedded.fm · 18 May 2016 · 1h 08m

What this episode covers

Hosts Alessio Bite and Christopher White discuss Christopher's hobbyist drone project, specifically a Vortex 285 quadcopter running Clean Flight software, and his failed attempt to integrate a Raspberry Pi for machine vision due to cross-compilation issues with CMake. They also critique a job posting from Salient, arguing that its unrealistic requirements for a support role reflect a broader industry problem of inflating qualifications. The conversation covers various embedded tools, RTOS options like Zephyr and ThreadX, and Christopher's 'Fistful of Wires' project for a maker event.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Salient, Macrofab, O'Reilly
Products
Vortex 285, Raspberry Pi
Also
Clean Flight, Open CV, Zephyr Project, ThreadX, FreeRTOS

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