447: All Sorts of Weird Problems

We spoke with Chris Gammell about IoT, podcasting, relaxing, and learning. Chris works at Golioth.io. They have a neat blog that talks about reference designs, Zephyr RTOS, and making products.

We talked about ESP chips which are made by Espressif. The ESP32 line is RISC-V.

Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)

Some YouTube channels we discussed:

• Wendover Productions: explaining stuff

• CGP Grey, especially the recent one about vexillogy and US state flags

• Blacktail Studio: Soothing woodworking

• Adam Neely: music theory

• Shawn Hymel on Digikey’s channel explaining continuous integration and delivery: Intro to CI/CD

• The H note in music

Want to know more about self-paced Making Embedded Systems? Sign up for the waitlist at Classpert. Want to learn electronics? Check out Chris Gammell’s Contextual Electronics.

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