167: All Aliens Are Shiny

Published: Sept. 7, 2016, 6:08 p.m.

Chris and Elecia chat about Bayes Rule, aliens, bit-banging, VGA, and unit testing.

Elecia is working on\xa0A Narwhal's Guide to Bayes' Rule.\xa0

ACM has a code of software engineering ethics

Toads have trackers (NPR story)

An\xa0introduction to bit-banging SPI\xa0(Arduino, WS2812)

We talked to James Grenning extensively about testing on\xa030: Eventually Lightning Strikes\xa0(and about his excellent book\xa0Test Driven Development for Embedded C). We spoke with James again on\xa0109: Resurrection of Extreme Programming. We also talked about unit testing with Mark Vandervoord on\xa0103: Tentacles of the Kraken.

A neat\xa0TED Talk involving octo-copters, still four short of dodecahedracopter.

Neat\xa0Z80 based very minimal computer kit

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