Chris and Elecia talk about their current adventures in conference talks, play dates, and skunks.

Elecia’s talks are available on YouTube:

• Creating Chaos and Hard Faults: An introduction to hard fault handlings, stack overflows, and debugging hard bugs

• Introduction to Embedded Systems (O'Reilly Expert Webinar): An introductions to… well, embedded systems

• These are both advertising for the 2nd edition of Elecia’s book, Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software. You can also find it on O’Reilly’s Learning System and probably read it with your 30 Day Trial (here).

Chris got a handheld game console, the Playdate (play.date), and has been writing a game for it. There is an interesting looking MicroPython port for it.

We also mentioned Tiny Tapeout Demoscene which sounds pretty neat. And KiCanvas where you can see KiCAD schematics without loading KiCAD.

Our newsletter has been off but will be back to normal next week. The RSS feed is probably not fun to look at but Elecia’s Rebloginator shows some Python tools for parsing feeds.

Neither the dog nor the skunk seem contrite.

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Jerry Twomey spoke with us about his new O’Reilly book Applied Embedded Electronics which covers embedded topics such as EMI, signal processing, control systems and non-ideal components.

Jerry is also the principal engineer at Effective Electrons. His articles are linked from there and you can contact him via the site.

Here is a 30-day trial for the O’Reilly Learning System. You can take a look at Jerry’s Applied Embedded Electronics and Elecia’s Making Embedded Systems as well as hundreds of other books about software, hardware, engineering, and origami.

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Carles Cufí spoke with us about Zephyr, Nordic, learning, open source development, and corporate goals.

Carles had some great suggestions for learning Zephyr:

• Memfault Interrupt Practical Zephyr blog series

• Nordic’s Developer Academy

• Zephyr’s Discord server

• Zephyr’s YouTube channel (@ZephyrProject), sorted by views

• • Macrobatics term is from Zephyr Devicetree Mysteries, Solved - Marti Bolivar, Nordic Semiconductor

There is also the Zephyr website for a full picture. And various Nordic tutorials (see nRF5340 Audio applications).

Carles was an author on Getting Started with Bluetooth Low Energy: Tools and Techniques for Low-Power Networking. The cover animal is a mousebird.

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