Chris and Elecia talk about burnout, a SPI + RTOS bug, newsletters, receiving feedback, Elecia's class, and listener projects.

Elecia's Making Embedded Systems course on Classpert is starting a new cohort on March 19th. She gave a live talk related to the class about looking beneath the surface of Arduino (YouTube version). She's excited about the Wokwi Raspberry Pi Pico simulator with C.

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Chris Lott wrote a Hackaday article about episode 404: Uppercase A, Lowercase R M with Reinhard Keil.

Elecia enjoyed Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen.

Serial Wombat peripheral expander for Arduino will be on Kickstarter soon

Chris wanted machine readable datasheets, listener Nick responds with Cyanobyte on github.

Infineon (previously Cypress) PSoC (wiki) is a chip/FPGA thing. We talked with Patrick Kane about it in episode 32: Woo Woo Woo