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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.

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We talked about teaching which led to:

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.

 

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  1. 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

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

  5. 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 .

  6. 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}”

    • 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.

      • 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!