Mike Szczys and Kerry Scharfglass recorded this week’s podcast live from DEF CON. Among the many topics of discussion, we explore some of the more interesting ways to move a robot. From BB-8 to Holonomic Drives, Kerry’s hoping to have a proof of concept in time for Supercon. Are you using On-Chip Debugging with your projects? Neither are we, but maybe we should. The same goes for dynamic memory allocation; but when you have overpowered micros such as the chip on the Teensy 4.0, why do you need to? We close this week’s show with a few interviews with badge makers who rolled out a few hundred of their design and encountered manufacturing problems along the way. It wouldn’t be engineering without problems to solve.
Take a look at the links below if you want to follow along, and as always tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
Take a look at the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
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Episode 031 Show Notes:
- Kerry Scharfglass built two versions of the Sympetrum badge:
- Interesting robot locomotion:
- Embedded Systems topics :
- Unofficial DEF CON badges discussed on the show
- Manufacturing Snafu Stories:
- DC Shoot Badge by @gigstaggart
- Tron Badge by @Sodium_Hydrogen
“Are you using On-Chip Debugging with your projects? Neither are we, but maybe we should.”
Maybe a series on how cheap production has enabled more diagnostics in a device?
Wished I’d listened to this sooner after it was released as it was interesting hearing from Kerry; I also do a lot of embedded software although I’m more on the hardware side, having started as a pure EE and yet doing embedded CPU design (coincidentally, it was on the embedded debug logic so, yes, I use on-chip debugging all the time!).
Oh, with regards 25:40, while I don’t know what Freescale are specifically targeting with their implementation, the Cortex M7 was designed as a DSP replacement in mind (hence why it can do two ops in a cycle with wide data busses).