Episode 449: Soldering the Ukulele with Elecia and Chris

Chris and Elecia talk?about internetting your thing, motivating yourself with cheese, a pile of scrabble letters, an electric ouija board, and a supervillain origin story.

Elecia will be on a Memfault Panel on June 1, 2023:?From Concept to Launch: What It Takes to Build and Ship a New Device?

Elecia was on Alpenglow’s Industries Solder Sesh #60 with Carrie Sundra. See the highlights (or the whole thing) on?YouTube.

Chris has been working on building a?baritone ukulele from a StewMac kit.

The conversation about uninteresting projects reminded Elecia of one of her favorite blog posts:?Resilience Is a Skill?

Classpert will be offering a self-paced version of Elecia’s Making Embedded Systems course. Sign up on?Classpert?to be notified about the details.

The?O’Reilly Learning System?will have the first looks of the second edition of Making Embedded Systems. The full book should be out in the fall.

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

Some things that might interest you, suitable for framing or wrapping fish:

• A whole subreddit devoted to trying to make the worst user interfaces possible. Some of these are still better than some real products out there.
• A 2000 line operating system for RISC-V : https://github.com/yhzhang0128/egos-2000. This is a fantastic way to learn how operating systems work without getting overwhelmed.
• Along those lines,?a compendium of 500 line or less projects. Web servers, 3D modelers, build systems and more. Great learning resource.
• You know we love maps,?here's a clever visualizer that shows relationships between github projects in real-time. Be sure to zoom out to see the clever algorithmic country names! (h/t: Bob Coggeshall)

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