Hardware Podcasts

405: Bacta Tank for Your Brain

Embedded.fm · 11 Mar 2022 · 51m · Episode 405

What this episode covers

Elecia White and Christopher White discuss Elecia's recent burnout while teaching her Making Embedded Systems course on Classpert, and Christopher's debugging of a subtle SPI + FreeRTOS bug on a Cypress PSoC chip. They also cover Elecia's recommendations for the book 'Thanks for the Feedback', the Wokwi simulator for Raspberry Pi Pico, and listener projects like Serial Wombat and Cyanobyte.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Classpert, Cypress, Cyanobyte, Qualcomm
Products
Serial Wombat
Chips
PSoC
Tools
Wokwi, FreeRTOS
Also
TheAnalog.io, The Prepared

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