461: Am I the Cow in This Scenario? With Elecia and Chris

Chris and Elecia discuss the pros and cons of completing one project or starting a dozen.?

Elecia’s 2nd edition of Making Embedded Systems is coming out in March. (Preview is on O’Reilly’s Learning System.) She’s working on a companion repository that is already filled with links and goodies: github.com/eleciawhite/making-embedded-systems.?

If you’d like to know more about signal processing, check out DSPGuide.com aka The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing By Steven W. Smith, Ph.D. And as noted in last week’s newsletter, there is an interesting overlap between smoothies and the Fourier Transform.?

Giang Vinh Loc used? Charles Lohr’s RISCV on Arduino UNO to boot Linux (in 16 hours).?

We also talked a bit about Greg Wilson’s recent episode with Elecia (Embedded 460: I Don’t Care What Your Math Says).

The?transcript?from the show is now available. Feel free to read, search and repost at your leisure.

Nordic Semiconductor empowers wireless innovation, by providing hardware, software, tools and services that allow developers to create the IoT products of tomorrow.?Learn more about Nordic Semiconductor at nordicsemi.com, check out the DevAcademy at academy.nordicsemi.com and interact with the Nordic Devzone community at devzone.nordicsemi.com.

Breakfast links:

• pipx offers an interesting?solution to the python executable deployment problem. It installs a complete isolated environment per application. (h/t Kevin on the Patreon Slack)
• James Munns writes about how you should consider interrupts a form of threads. Mostly Rust specific, but conceptually applicable everywhere.
• Goliath has a detailed and informative walkthrough of debugging cellular issues when using the Nordic?nRF9160. There's some very good tools for this!
• Finally,?JF Bastien's excellent talk "*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend With This Code" explorers programmer's intent, compiler's feelings, all the way down to hardware. It's a great hook for a detailed journey through computing.

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