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The Amp Hour and Embedded join up to send a holiday letter to listeners!

I (Chris G) got totally fritzed out dealing with the new year and Chris and Elecia were awesome and edited AND did show notes this week. Not to mention Chris White’s new Ampbedded Crossover Theme! Wowsa! Props to them, I’m super lucky to have them as friends. Happy New Year!

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!
  • 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.