Christopher (@stoneymonster) and Elecia (@logicalelegance) chat about listener questions and things they\\u2019ve been up to.
A listener turned Chris on to Ray Wilson and his Music From Outer Space website on DIY analog synths and book Make: Analog Synthesizers. After collecting parts for a total DIY, he found and built a neat kit: Kastle Synth (as heard on the show) and has connected it to his Roland SE-02 Analog Synthesizer (on Amazon). BTW, his ham radio WSPR kit is the Ultimate 3 in case you are behind on hobbies. You can hear more about it in 197: Smell the Transistor.
Elecia has been working through Udacity\\u2019s Self-Driving Engineer nanodegree. She completed term 1 with its computer vision and machine learning and is on to term 2 with sensor fusion, localization, and control. She blissfully is unaware of the cost because she got to be an industry expert for the Intro to Self-Driving Cars\\xa0course.
Listener Simon asked about non-fiction books. Elecia gets many of hers by looking at what is on discount at BookBub\\u2019s science section which lead to two books she highly recommends Spirals in Time (snail facts) and Tristan Gooley\\u2019s How to Read Water (beach explainer).
Chris has been reading Scott Wolley\\u2019s The Network: The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age and How Music Works by David Byrne.
Some show-related recommendations include Gretchen Bakke\\u2019s The Grid (hear Gretchen on episode 213: Electricity Doesn\\u2019t Behave Like an Apple) and Jimmy Soni\\u2019s Mind at Play (hear Jimmy on episode 221: Hiding in Plain Sight). She\\u2019s reading Tim O\\u2019Reilly\\u2019s WTF book about the future in anticipation of an upcoming episode. That\'s a good reminder: we, of course, also recommend Making Embedded Systems.
Zach asked about Michael Barr\\u2019s Embedded Software Training in a Box. Apologies if we weren\\u2019t specific enough, it would likely make a better blog post.
Also: $1 Microcontrollers!
