The world of embedded systems | Elecia White

Elecia White, host of ‪@Embeddedfm‬ and author of "Making Embedded Systems", joins us to discuss all things embedded systems. We discuss programming non-computers, open source resources for embedded, self-driving cars, embedded system like the GoPro, Traeger smokers, and even birthday cards. According to Elecia, embedded is going everywhere. SUBSCRIBE: RSS: https://changelog.fm/rss Apple: https://changelog.fm/apple Spotify: https://changelog.fm/spotify Android: https://changelog.fm/android Overcast: https://changelog.fm/overcast Email: https://changelog.fm/email X: https://x.com/changelog Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/changelog.com Mastodon: https://changelog.social/@changelog SPONSORS: Augment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase and how you build software to deliver personalized code suggestions and insights. Augment provides relevant, contextualized code right in your IDE or Slack. It transforms scattered knowledge into code or answers, eliminating time spent searching docs or interrupting teammates. https://www.augmentcode.com/ Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. https://fly.io/ DeleteMe – Text CHANGELOG to 64000 to join DeleteMe. They make it quick, easy, and safe to remove your personal data online. https://joindeleteme.com/ LINKS: https://embedded.fm/ https://www.amazon.com/Making-Embedde... https://classpert.com/classpertx/cour... https://wokwi.com https://github.com/micropython/microp... https://www.nordicsemi.com/Nordic-new... https://www.freertos.org https://www.adafruit.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_... https://shop.chibitronics.com https://www.crunchlabs.com/ https://www.firstinspires.org https://www.hackster.io https://hackaday.com https://www.instructables.com/circuits/ https://www.instructables.com/A-Smart... https://2025.oshwa.org/ https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/... https://hackaday.com/tag/2024-hackada... https://hardwear.io https://electronica.de/en/ CHAPTERS: 00:00 Welcoming Elecia 01:41 When NPR calls 03:23 What is embedded? 07:09 Programming non-computers 11:40 How Elecia got started 14:13 The moment of discovery 15:48 Mentoring for embedded 18:43 Wokwi is cool 22:16 The chasm between sim and real 26:49 The constraints of embedded 30:13 SILICON VALLEY 30:51 How big is the embedded world? 34:49 Open source + embedded 36:19 Elecia loves Kalman filters! 40:04 Elecia's thoughts on self-driving cars 49:27 Self-driving on a closed-system 51:29 GoPro is embedded 55:29 Traeger smokers are embedded 1:01:28 What do you want to build next? 1:04:51 Crunch Labs! 1:07:58 What else is cool? 1:09:51 Embedded is going everywhere 1:15:10 IoT, let us 'opt out' 1:18:47 Embedded.fm and other places 1:22:55 Wrapping up