Hackaday Podcast · 26 Jan 2024 · 1h 04m · Episode 254
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams discuss the legal dispute between Haier and a Home Assistant developer over API usage, noting Haier's retreat to dialogue. They analyze a C programming quiz that tests knowledge of obscure language behaviors, debating its value in hiring. The episode also covers Wen Ting Jong's reverse engineering of an Apple Touch Bar display, a 3D-printed screw compressor, and a large-scale water rocket project by ARRO Rockets.
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Hosts Christopher and Elecia White discuss their recent experiences judging the Hackaday Prize, highlighting finalists like the Ramen Spectrometer and Chip Whisperer, and review the rapid success of Darma Kickstarter campaign. They also cover the logistics challenges faced by Light Up and the upcoming Peep camera project, while critiquing the technical accuracy of the TV show Scorpion versus the novel The Martian.
Hosts Elecia White and Christopher White discuss Christopher's recent experience fulfilling a Kickstarter order for vinyl records using BackerKit, and his ongoing technical struggles with reading CAN bus data from an automotive radar in Python on a NVIDIA Xavier. They also answer a series of career-focused questions about embedded systems, covering topics like debugging hardware, the importance of microarchitecture knowledge, and the frustrations of learning embedded programming. Finally, Elecia introduces TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) as a structured methodology for invention, illustrated by an example of filling liquid-filled chocolate bottles.
Hosts Elecia White and Christopher White answer listener emails, covering topics from I2C pitfalls and RTOS choices to advice for students and engineers dealing with legacy code. They discuss the 'March Micro Madness' dev kit tournament, automation in embedded testing, and the challenges of refactoring a 60,000-line monolithic codebase. The episode also includes career advice for undergraduates and a discussion on short stories.
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.
Hosts Elecia White and Chris Svec discuss listener emails, covering topics from the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch to the Chordbot sequencer controller from Isla Instruments. White shares her experience writing 'Making Embedded Systems' and addresses a reader's request for resources on interrupts and timers, while also reviewing educational YouTube content and the free STM32 TrueStudio IDE. The conversation concludes with reflections on corporate product cancellations at LeapFrog and Cisco, and the technical optimization of early Pokémon games.
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