537: Quiet Time Innovation

Christopher and Elecia catch up on life, firmware consulting, daydreams, and projects. Elecia thinks aloud about low-stimulation education toys. Christopher shares his experience using AI tools to build a custom Swift metronome app to train off-beat timing, specifically how he turned the project into a structured language lesson plan. They discuss using Google's NotebookLM on the Embedded.fm transcripts, award wins, handling guest self-invites, contract engineering advice for high schoolers, security key vulnerabilities, and how moving from desktop to embedded requires viewing your hardware as your framework. Discussion Resources & Links Embedded.fm LLM – Search and query all past Embedded.fm show notes, blog posts, and transcripts Hasbro Women Innovators of Play – Toy design challenge encouraging women-led innovations Mermaid Live Editor – Text-based diagramming and flowchart tool for Markdown documentation eMudhra & GoAhead Vulnerability Overview – Security issues surrounding public key infrastructure, TLS, and embedded web server DHE cipher secrets Transcript