Hardware Podcasts

492: Octopus Army

Embedded.fm · 27 Dec 2024 · 1h 09m · Episode 492

What this episode covers

Nathan Jones, an active-duty Army officer and West Point instructor, discusses his proposal for a computer architecture book centered on the Voja4, a 4-bit computer built from the 2022 Hackaday SuperCon badge. He explains the educational value of physical hardware over simulation, comparing his approach to 'Nand to Tetris' and 'Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach,' while also sharing his experience overhauling a university curriculum. The conversation covers the challenges of writing technical books, the importance of understanding low-level architecture for debugging, and the results of a community survey regarding the Embedded.fm podcast.

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founders before launch

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Companies
O'Reilly, Tindie
Products
Voja4, Nand to Tetris, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Introduction to Computing Systems, MicroPython, CircuitPython, Raspberry Pi 2040
Also
Hackaday SuperCon

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