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Alicia White

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
348 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

But I really enjoy the puzzle part. And like I said, I really enjoy the motor moving. And when the robot, for a personal project, I wanted to do some higher level software. So I got a Jetson, which is NVIDIA's AI embedded system. It's a Linux system. It's a computer. I used it as a computer for like two weeks.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

But I really enjoy the puzzle part. And like I said, I really enjoy the motor moving. And when the robot, for a personal project, I wanted to do some higher level software. So I got a Jetson, which is NVIDIA's AI embedded system. It's a Linux system. It's a computer. I used it as a computer for like two weeks.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

And I wanted to get a really janky arm, a robotic arm that could go up and down and grab things. And I wanted to make a typing robot. I wanted to have a camera that would see the keyboard and then the robot would hold a little I don't know, pin tooth like thing. And it would punch out hello or whatever I told it to punch out. And it kind of worked.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

And I wanted to get a really janky arm, a robotic arm that could go up and down and grab things. And I wanted to make a typing robot. I wanted to have a camera that would see the keyboard and then the robot would hold a little I don't know, pin tooth like thing. And it would punch out hello or whatever I told it to punch out. And it kind of worked.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

And I used some machine learning and I did a lot of computer vision, which is an area I'm always interested in. But then one day I'm telling it, okay, type hello. And it types help. And I'm like, done. I'm like, this is the end of this personal project. I cannot make it any better. This is the best. And I forgot why I started this story, but I hope it was amusing.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

And I used some machine learning and I did a lot of computer vision, which is an area I'm always interested in. But then one day I'm telling it, okay, type hello. And it types help. And I'm like, done. I'm like, this is the end of this personal project. I cannot make it any better. This is the best. And I forgot why I started this story, but I hope it was amusing.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

It certainly did. It was... In the way of how much software can I throw at a problem to make the hardware that is very bad better? It turns out you can throw a lot of software at some bad hardware and it still is bad hardware. But it can be really fun.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

It certainly did. It was... In the way of how much software can I throw at a problem to make the hardware that is very bad better? It turns out you can throw a lot of software at some bad hardware and it still is bad hardware. But it can be really fun.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

You might have noticed that your home has more blinking lights than it used to.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

You might have noticed that your home has more blinking lights than it used to.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

It is growing. Some things are becoming easier. Some things are becoming more straightforward. But I see more job openings than people looking for jobs. So I would say that's pretty good. How do you get that? There are a lot of paths because, like I said, what is an embedded system depends on your perspective.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

It is growing. Some things are becoming easier. Some things are becoming more straightforward. But I see more job openings than people looking for jobs. So I would say that's pretty good. How do you get that? There are a lot of paths because, like I said, what is an embedded system depends on your perspective.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

There are quite a few embedded Linux projects that still are embedded because they need to be very conscious of their constraints. And yet, to most software engineers, it wouldn't look that different. It might be boring because it's trying to figure out how to provision 100 small sensors with IP addresses. But the actual algorithms and such wouldn't be strange.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

There are quite a few embedded Linux projects that still are embedded because they need to be very conscious of their constraints. And yet, to most software engineers, it wouldn't look that different. It might be boring because it's trying to figure out how to provision 100 small sensors with IP addresses. But the actual algorithms and such wouldn't be strange.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

It would be the interactions that were a little different, having to deal with actual boxes out there.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

It would be the interactions that were a little different, having to deal with actual boxes out there.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

But then when you start getting into higher, I guess it's lower tolerance, things where you have to last for five years or have to squeeze out every microamp possible, or even things where firmware update is very hard and if you do it wrong, things go very bad for you. Like firmware update at the bottom of the ocean. Those, you don't start with those.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The world of embedded systems (Interview)

But then when you start getting into higher, I guess it's lower tolerance, things where you have to last for five years or have to squeeze out every microamp possible, or even things where firmware update is very hard and if you do it wrong, things go very bad for you. Like firmware update at the bottom of the ocean. Those, you don't start with those.