An exciting topic: Edge Computing, an emerging market. IoT, microcontrollers, and other digital or analog sensors that collect, preprocess, and deliver data to feed the multitudes of systems hungry for real world data. Explores the maker culture and gives props to leaders like Adafruit for thought and social leadership producing and promoting tools to create the next generation of product developers. Art, science, math, movement, and magic come together at the workstations of unconventional engineers who are understand more than just had to wrangle bits, but also to create performance art and purpose-built tools. Power management, alternative energy sources and low energy designs are being explored and mastered. A new generation of geeky artistic scientist/engineer/makers are preparing to let their presence be known. Inside these communities are wonderful virtues of tolerance, acceptance, love, peace and the sharing of knowledge.

Also covered are my typical rants and pleas around IoT and edge computing device security and privacy. I provide a really cute anecdote that connects a fledgling early prototype of the Jibo robot with none other than the Beatles (should be subtitled: tales from the Pool House).

I tried new recording techniques on vocal and musical content. All music/noise is my own except for 8 seconds or so of a rare Beatles song, and a background electric guitar/drums riff that sounds a tad like electrified Angie by the Stones. Opens with a few seconds of my new Taylor AD12e over a drumbeat, then goes into background levels and plays out a psychotic hour long electric guitar jam with some new audio equipment that explores many tones and textures. At the end is a select clip from that jam at foreground audio levels to play out the episode. As usual, the music is bizarre and includes some really good stuff and some misses. When I "stream of consciousness jam", I don't think. I just feel and play. Occasionally, failure to think can hurt. More often, it creates something interesting and oddly compelling (so says the writer/performer). Episode image is a portion of my office #2 where I do my hardware work just piled with components where I make edge computing devices--primarily artsy things.That desk is piled 4X high with active p