Catch up on some of our most non-embedded episodes...

Happy April everyone! I hope Spring or Fall is treating you well, whichever is most applicable to your latitude. Let's get right to it.?

First a reminder that not only is Elecia's book out, it's really in stock at Amazon for immediate shipping.?

In more Elecia news, she will be speaking at the?Embedded Online Conference?(Apr 29-May 3, 2024) on?Creating Chaos and Hard Faults. EOC has?discounts if your team signs up?(5+) or you can use the EMBEDDEDFM code.

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.

As you might have noticed from the last episode with Inna, we sometimes use the podcast to further ends that are not exactly about embedded development. Here are a few episodes where we got to outright abuse our position as podcast hosts to spend time with people we just wanted to meet (and squee at):

• 432: Robot Bechdel Test with Martha Wells? Martha Wells is a science fiction and fantasy author. She spoke with us about her books (including Murderbot Diaries!), writing, and creating fantastical worlds.
• 235: Imagine That, Suckers! with Robin Sloan We spoke to author Robin Sloan about his books and near-future science fiction. Robin is the author of Sourdough and Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.
• 236: The Concept of Delayed Gratification with Roger Linn Roger Linn, creator of the famouns LinnDrum drum machine, gave us new ideas about musical instruments, detailing how wonderful expressive control, 3D buttons, and keyscanning can be.
• 145: This Is Embedded with Kelly McEvers Kelly McEvers joined us to talk about the definition of embedded. Kelly McEvers is one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon news magazine. She is also the host of a new podcast called Embedded which takes a story from the news and goes much deeper into it.
• 313: Where the Paper Knows It Needs to Fold with Robert Lang Origami artist and physicist Robert J. Lang spoke with us about origami, art, math, and lasers.

There you go, a starter pack of Embedded episodes not about embedded

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Weekly links:

• Ever wanted to know how GPS works, like really works? Phillip Tennen has a?walkthrough of building?a software defined GPS receiver that?might help with that.?
• How many lines of C code does executing a+b in Python boil down to? This is like how many licks it takes to reach the center of a Tootsie Pop.?
• JSON can sometimes get unwieldy. This online viewer might help make sense of more complicated JSON data. Graphs can be exported as SVG and PNG, which is pretty cool.
• Optical fibers have long been used as bend or strain sensors, but we weren't aware it was possible to turn 3D printer filament into such things as well.

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