01.03.2018 - By NPR
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.