337: Not Completely Explode

Kate Temkin (@ktemkin) explained USB: how to get started, general orientation, useful tools, and when you’d use it in embedded systems. Kate’s website is ktemkin.com. She works at Great Scott Gadgets. References for USB:  USB in a Nutshell  USB Complete by Jan Axelson USB Embedded Hosts: The Developer’s Guide by Jan Axelson USB Specification, Chapter 9: USB Device Framework USB Stacks we talked about: TinyUSB from Adafruit Lufa Cortex libopencm3 For the host side: libusb Open Source VIDs are available from Openmoko and Pid.codes Kate recently gave a talk about making USB accessible. Part of the talk was about Luna, an FPGA based USB multitool. Some open source FPGA tools: Symbiflow.github.io Yosys: http://www.clifford.at/yosys/

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I am Elecia White alongside Christopher White. We’re here to chat about the interests, careers, and lives of engineers, artists, educators and makers. Our diverse guest list includes names you may have heard and engineers working quietly in the trenches. Either way, they are knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and inspiring. We’d love to share our enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM).