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457: Rubber Duck Phase Cancellation

Embedded.fm · 17 Aug 2023 · 1h 12m · Episode 457

What this episode covers

Elecia White and Christopher White discuss Elecia's progress on the second edition of her book 'Making Embedded Systems' and her origami studies, while Christopher details his struggles learning Morse code and his skepticism regarding ChatGPT's utility and reliability. They engage in a deep technical debate about the definition and implementation of 'portable code' in embedded systems, contrasting high-level frameworks like Qt with low-level hardware abstraction layers.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
O'Reilly, Classpert, OpenAI
Products
Making Embedded Systems
Chips
STM32
Tools
ChatGPT, Zephyr, MicroPython, Qt, Electron, VSCode
Also
Hackaday Supercon

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