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#373 – Pedantic or Andrantic

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The Amp Hour and Embedded join up to send a holiday letter to listeners!

I (Chris G) got totally fritzed out dealing with the new year and Chris and Elecia were awesome and edited AND did show notes this week. Not to mention Chris White’s new Ampbedded Crossover Theme! Wowsa! Props to them, I’m super lucky to have them as friends. Happy New Year!

Chris G is ever improving Contextual Electronics. Chris W has a new band: 12ax7. Elecia still has a book: Making Embedded Systems.

Amp Hour episodes mentioned in this one

  • 372: Where Chris and Dave talk about 2017
  • 304: Alexa jokes
  • 281: The first Amp Hour / Embedded show, with call ins
  • 256: The first time Chris W was on the Amp Hour
  • 187: Elecia joined the Amp Hour for the first time

Embedded episodes mentioned:

  • 223: Where Chris talks about his new synth habit
  • 227: Talking about Udacity and learning
  • 203: EE Charlie talks about good design

We talked about teaching which led to:

  • Short mention of Dreyfus model of skill acquisition of which Chris G’s friend Mel did a great explanatory comic
  • Daniel Spalding’s How to Teach Adults (pdf)
  • Dan Luu’s Learning To Program post
  • Udacity’s Self Driving Car courses
  • Computer vision with Python OpenCV
  • Article on how the difficulty is the point of teaching literature
  • The new art and engineering Function Podcast
  • Hilarious World of Depression podcast
  • Books!
    • Build Your Own Transistor Radio by Ron Quan
    • The Hobbyist’s Guide to RTL-SDR by Carl Laufer
    • Spineless by Juli Berwald about Jellyfish
    • Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs by Tristan Gooley
    • Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (terrifying mermaids)
    • Catseye by Andre Norton
    • Teach Beyond Your Reach by Robin Neidorf
    • Mastery by Robert Greene
    • Understanding By Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
    • Making Learning Whole by David Perkins

Elecia got a JTrace Pro Cortex-M for herself for Christmas. Chris W got a Moog Werkstatt and an assortment of Teenage Engineering small synths. Chris G mostly got sweaters because Chicago is very cold.

 

Comments

  1. ben says

    January 4, 2018 at 10:53 am

    Enjoyed the bonus vocab lesson – pedagogy and andragogy.. who knew?! Tim Ferriss has several good podcasts about how to quickly learn a new subject.

    Regarding the quick prototyping hackers mentioned (Ben Krasnow , Samy Kamkar, Alan Yates, Jeri Ellsworth), and Micah.. is that Micah Elizabeth Scott or Mica Thomas from the function podcast?

    I just subscribed to the Swiss hacker, Andreas Spiess’ youtube channel , looks like he’s got a bunch of cool videos.

    BTW, regarding the HackRF, there’s another open source/hardware with similar specs that might be a bit easier to use:
    https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limesdr/updates/lms8001-companion-and-limesdr-mini

    • Chris Gammell says

      January 8, 2018 at 1:13 am

      Correct, Micah Scott: https://www.youtube.com/user/micahjd

      Just started listening to Function, so don’t know new Mica yet, but hopefully will soon!

  2. Peter Chylewski says

    January 5, 2018 at 8:49 am

    Yet another nice episode. However, the new Jingle is horribly bad, sorry.

    • Matt Reid says

      January 5, 2018 at 5:12 pm

      I agree with Peter. Great episode! The new jingle sounds kind of messy though. Sorry!

      • Christopher White (@stoneymonster) says

        January 9, 2018 at 6:09 pm

        It was just a bit of fun I whipped up on the day of editing, since we had talked about synth stuff and it was a crossover. It’s not permanent.

        • Chris Gammell says

          January 9, 2018 at 6:16 pm

          I was impressed how fast you put it together!

          I would say if we ever do a longer term Ampbedded, we do a song from scratch…and get a better name for the show 😀

  3. Chris Gammell says

    January 5, 2018 at 2:37 pm

    it’s just there for you to appreciate The Amp Hour Classic™

  4. john says

    January 6, 2018 at 3:11 am

    embedded ranga sounds like teenage dream . …new jingle not so much
    ……..it pays to eat an elephant one bite at a time.

  5. Hedley Davidson says

    January 7, 2018 at 10:58 pm

    On eating elephants . A wonderful line in a book “ if you have to eat crap , don’t nibble “ . I have found this helpful in work where you pick the worst task first , put on your blinkers and chow down and don’t pause until it is complete. Most pick this last take a nibble and then do something else hoping it will disappear , but it lurks in the background like an NMI .

    • Chris Gammell says

      January 8, 2018 at 1:11 am

      Ha! That’s a great turn of phrase

  6. Patrick says

    January 11, 2018 at 11:24 am

    I’ll be the naysayer. I’ve learned I have to skip these crossover episodes. It comes as no shock that Dave opts out of them as well. The signal to noise ratio drops down into the abyss. Chris comes off as a fawning sycophant when these two are on the show, and everything devolves into a series of breathless inside-baseball discussions of podcasters comparing podcasting notes combined with unexplained comments like “consumer is a whole different world…{ha ha ha ha nervous laughter with no context}”

    • Hedley says

      January 11, 2018 at 12:47 pm

      On balance ie from the first episode Chris has a good interview technique and let’s the guests talk where often Dave turns into an eye surgeon . I this and I that and I the next thing . So both bring good and bad to the show. It is a lot of work and free to us listeners so as with everything in life we must take the good with the bad. I wish them both all the best for 2018.

      • Patrick says

        January 12, 2018 at 12:04 pm

        You are correct and I regret the negative tone of my comment and the impression it gives of being ungrateful. I do appreciate the gift of the Amp Hour and the time and effort Chris and Dave put into it. I admit to getting a bit of a bee in my bonnet when podcasters have other podcasters as guests and they lose sight of the audience…I guess I need to work on that!

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