Hardware Podcasts

Ep 031: Holonomic Drives, Badges of DEF CON, We Don't Do On-Chip Debugging, and Manufacturing Snafus

Hackaday Podcast · 16 Aug 2019 · 38m

What this episode covers

Hosts Mike Szczys and Kerry Scharfglass record from DEF CON, discussing Kerry's small-scale holonomic drive robot project and the complex manufacturing of the Car Hacking Village's SUV-shaped badge. They debate the merits of on-chip debugging versus print-based debugging in embedded systems, with Kerry advocating for unit testing with Valgrind on desktop builds. The episode concludes with interviews about manufacturing snafus, including a badge maker struck by lightning during assembly and another delayed by a contract manufacturer ordering the wrong microcontrollers.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
ST, Seed
Products
Bus Pirate, Ozobot
Chips
Teensy 4.0, ESP32, Kendite K210
Tools
Valgrind, GDB, OpenOCD
Also
DEF CON, Supercon

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