EP#147: Charlyn Gonda and the Ever-Lowering Fence between Software and Hardware

• Charlyn Gonda
  • Coder by day, maker by night
  • A chronic problem solver and is currently in the middle of her year-long project, 12 Months of Makes
  • Has too much fun building circuits, creating things with 3D printing, crafting hats and coding IoT devices!
• Topics
  • Charlyn what is your background? Day Job ect?
  • Why did you become a Software Developer?
  • How did you go from a Software Developer to building Hardware for the first time?
    • Any particular reason you wanted to start building hardware?
  • How do you approach hardware design? Is it in anyway the same as software development or radically different?
  • What is the 12 Months of Makes
    • Projects you have completed so far?
      • Bongocat
      • Sharknicorn
    • Almost at the end of the 12 Months of Makes. How successful was the experiment?
  • Words of wisdom to other software developers that are thinking about hardware creation?

Tags: 12 Months of Makes, Bongo Cat, Charlyn Gonda, Eats, electronics podcast, IoT, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, Particle, Sharknicorn, Uber