The Contextual Electronics Podcast
Contextual Electronics highlights stories of people using electronics to solve their problems. Listeners will hear how to use electronics in their own projects, by learning about new technologies and techniques. Tune in each week to hear a different guest and how they are using electronics to solve a problem in their life.
Contextual Electronics is also an online education program. Started in 2014, CE pairs theory and practice for learning electronics. In 2020, we started the podcast to highlight stories of using electronics in real world contexts.
- Update frequency
- every 25 days
- Average duration
- 75 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
CEP015 – Finishing Prototypes with Zack Freedman
This is a crossover episode with The Amp Hour podcast (also made by Chris)
Welcome, Zack Freedman of Voidstar Lab
Zack Freedman is a prototyping engineer turned YouTuber who makes bombastic videos ab…
CEP014 – Moving to KiCad V6 with Jon Evans
Welcome, Jon Evans of the KiCad project!
Jon Evans is a longtime developer on the KiCad project and practicing EE at Formlabs. He joins Chris to talk about the future of KiCad, including features tha…
CEP013 – Open Source Robotics with Kat Scott
Welcome, Kat Scott of Open Robotics!
Kat is a developer advocate at Open Robotics, the company behind software like the open source Robot Operating System (ROS). Kat joins Chris to talk about how to …
CEP012 – Mixed Media with Becky Stern
Welcome, Becky Stern!
Becky is an artist and content producer who works electronics into projects using a wide variety of media and construction techniques. Becky also teaches a class on electronics …
CEP011 – Environmental Monitoring with Conservify
Welcome, Conservify!
Our guests today
Show Notes
- Conservify is creating the FieldKit, a new modular system for environmental monitoring for research scie…
CEP010 – Low Volume and Low Cost with Timon Skerutsch
Welcome, Timon Skerutsch (@timonsku)!
Show notes
- Timon and Chris know each other from Twitter and from past Hackaday events (Timon won one of the Hackaday Prize awards for his Linux Tablet)
- Timon ha…
CEP009 – Meta Learning Electronics with Mike Cheich and Phil FitzGerald
- About the guests/host
CEP008 – Building Rockets with Joe Barnard (Interview)
- Joe Barnard is a rocketeer who runs BPS.space
- Joe is helping to bring Thrust Vector Control to the field of model rocketry
- He got started wanting to work for SpaceX, but has expanded the scope of th…
CEP007 – Combining Art and Technology with Sarah Petkus
- Sarah’s personal site (shown throughout the video)
- She Bon is a project exploring human sexuality and helping people discuss it in a more healthy way. It has multiple smaller projects we discussed
CEP006 – Cellular Design Review with Roy Chen
Today we’re talking with Roy Chen from Quectel. He is a field applications engineer and has been helping people design cellular modules into their designs.