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An Interview with Elecia White - Wirewove Worshipping Wookieist?

The Amp Hour · 5 Mar 2014 · 1h 42m · Episode 187

What this episode covers

Elecia White, founder of Logical Elegance and host of the Making Embedded Systems podcast, discusses her O'Reilly book and her career as an embedded software consultant. She shares insights on bare-metal programming, the pitfalls of using floating-point math in interrupts, and the importance of power optimization in wearable devices like Fitbit. White also reflects on her past work at LeapFrog, the challenges of hiring engineers, and her vision for future haptic feedback technology.

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Companies
Logical Elegance, O'Reilly, Fitbit, LeapFrog
Products
Making Embedded Systems, Arduino, Nest Protect
Chips
Cortex-M3, Cortex-M0, TI C2000
Tools
Git, KiCad

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