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417: I Don’t Know How My Brain Works

Jun 16, 2022

47:53

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Do You Have a Silly Project?

03:53

Is It Hard to Work on Unsimilar Kinds of Technology?

03:31

A Master's Degree in Imbeded Systems?

01:41

Introduction

2min

Do You Have a Favorite Micro Controller?

2min

How Big Is the Tiny Violin?

2min

How to Make a Tiny Pisy Bee?

2min

The Picolite, a Pixy Bead?

5min

Do You Have a Silly Project?

4min

Is It Hard to Work on Unsimilar Kinds of Technology?

4min

Having Professional Tools Makes You Feel Like a Real Engineer

2min

What Is Your Favorite Open Source Hardware Talk?

3min

10.

What Kind of Projects Do You Have?

4min

11.

A Hydroponic System for Growing Strawberries

2min

12.

The Strawberryis First Grafana

2min

13.

A Master's Degree in Imbeded Systems?

2min

14.

Is There a Career in Machine Learning?

2min

15.

I'm an Artist, and I'd Like to Work With You

2min

16.

What's the Difference Between an Alpaca and a Lama?

3min

17.

How to Make Pecy Bees?

2min

18.

How to Make a Badge for a Conference?

3min

Alexandra Covor spoke with us about engineering, making, drawing, school, and what it means to be an artist.

Alex’s projects are on GitHub and Hackster.io. Her electronics comics can be found as PikaComics on Instagram.

The 2022 Open Hardware Summit named Alex as part of the Ada Lovelace Fellowship. Her favorite talk from the summit was Anuradha Reddy talking about Knotty (Naughty) Hardware.

Alex works for Zalmotek, a design services firm in Bucharest. We talked about Waylay.io, including their smart pet feeder built on that platform. For example projects for Edge Impulse, they built a tools organizer that uses ML.

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