The Amp Hour and Embedded join up to send a holiday letter to listeners.

Chris G is ever improving Contextual Electronics. Chris W has a new band: 12ax7. Elecia still has a book: Making Embedded Systems.

Amp Hour episodes mentioned in this one:

372: Where Chris and Dave talk about 2017

304: Alexa jokes

281: The first Amp Hour / Embedded show, with call ins

256: The first time Chris W was on the Amp Hour

187: Elecia joined the Amp Hour for the first time

Embedded episodes mentioned:

223: Where Chris talks about his new synth habit

227: Talking about Udacity and learning

203: EE Charlie talks about good design

We talked about teaching which led to:

Short mention of Dreyfus model of skill acquisition of which Chris G’s friend Mel did a great explanatory comic

Daniel Spalding’s How to Teach Adults (pdf)

Dan Luu’s Learning To Program post

Udacity’s Self Driving Car courses

Computer vision with Python OpenCV

Article on how the difficulty is the point of teaching literature

The new art and engineering Function Podcast

Hilarious World of Depression podcast

Books we are reading!

Build Your Own Transistor Radio by Ron Quan

The Hobbyist’s Guide to RTL-SDR by Carl Laufer

Spineless by Juli Berwald about Jellyfish

Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs by Tristan Gooley

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (terrifying mermaids)

Catseye by Andre Norton

Teach Beyond Your Reach by Robin Neidorf

Mastery by Robert Greene

Understanding By Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

Making Learning Whole by David Perkins

Elecia got a JTrace Pro Cortex-M for herself for Christmas. Chris W got a Moog Werkstatt and an assortment of Teenage Engineering small synths. Chris G mostly got sweaters because Chicago is very cold.