It’s funny how you think you know what a word means until someone asks you for a definition, at which point you run into problems trying to articulate that word’s meaning. Take the word “retro,” for example. What does this mean to you?
Take a few minutes to jot your thoughts down, and then we’ll continue. There’ … Read More → "Retro Gadgets, Gizmos, Tools, and Technologies"
Automotive design takes center stage in this week’s podcast. My guest is Chet Babla from indie. Chet and I chat about the automotive megatrends driving automotive innovation today. We also explore how radar and vision will shape the future of in-cabin and exterior automotive applications and how indie is supporting the next generation of vision and radar applications with their advanced silicon, photonics and sensor … Read More → "Vision, Photonics, and Radar: How indie is Empowering the Next Generation of Automotive Design"
Sometimes people say things that are both obvious and unexpectedly insightful. “Unexpected,” in the sense that I hadn’t thought of it myself—yet once I heard it, I was surprised it hadn’t already occurred to me. I’ll explain what kicked off my current cogitations in a moment. First, however, I’d like to waffle a bit, as is my wont.
I’m not sure when I first ran across the concepts of things like virtual reality and augmented reality. I think it may have been around the tail end of the 1960s when I read Way Station by Clifford D. Simak.
Simak’ … Read More → "Are Mixed Reality Theme Parks Headed Our Way?"
Welcome to our second annual International Women in Engineering Day Fish Fry podcast! My special guests are Sonja Brown from TDK, Chandana Tamma from Rehlko, and Sonja Ghelani from Texas Instruments. I sat down with each of these esteemed engineers and discussed their journeys into the world of high tech, … Read More → "Fish Fry Special Edition: 2025 International Women in Engineering Day"
My podcast guest this week is Vibheesh Bharathan, Director and Project Lead for PSOC 4 Multi-Sense at Infineon. Vibheesh and I chat all about the benefits of Infineon’s new PSOC 4 MCU family. We discuss the details of the Multi-Sense technology at the heart of these new MCUs and why innovative … Read More → "Multi-Sensing for the Next Generation of HMI Applications"
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