Ep. 133 - Building Robot Vacuum Cleaners: An Intro to Embedded Systems (Chris Svec)

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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We explore the field of embedded systems with Chris Svec, get a solid intro to working with microprocessors, and discuss the many ways a codenewbie can start learning more about the fascinating world of embedded systems.

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0:43.7	I'm your host, Aran, and before we kick off the show, I want to tell you about our incredible sponsors.
0:48.9	Today on the show, I'm so excited to have embedded software engineer at IRobot, Chris Feck.
0:55.1	Chris, you want to say hi? Sure. Hi. Thanks for having me. So I'm really excited to have embedded software engineer at iRobot, Chris Feck. Chris, you want to say hi?
0:59.9	Sure. Hi. Thanks for having me. So I'm really excited to have you on the show because I think that the Codenemy podcast is admittedly very biased. We're very biased towards web development and web apps.
1:08.2	And we've gotten a little more into mobile, but still it's around
1:11.2	applications and website-based technologies. And what I'm really excited about is to step away from
1:16.5	that for this conversation and talk a little bit about embedded software. So I think a good
1:20.7	place to start is just to define what that is. How would you describe embedded software?
1:25.0	So the great thing is that it's kind of a fuzzy definition,
1:28.3	but embedded software is software that runs on a device that is usually not general purpose,
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