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Eliminating the Battery Altogether: How Powercast is Opening New Avenues of Innovation with RF Wireless Power and RF Wireless Harvesting

January 28, 2022

In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, Charlie Green (Chief Operating & Technical Officer at Powercast) joins us to discuss how Powercast is powering new avenues of innovation with their RF energy harvesting and wireless power. We are digging into the details of some super cool new designs that utilize Powercast technologies including a 3D printable discrete wearables for at-home medical monitoring, diagnosis and athletic training, a robotic autonomous price-changing system, an over-the-air wireless charging grip for Nintendo Joy-Con Controllers, and more!

Changing the UI and UX Paradigm One Touch at a Time

by Amelia Dalton

January 21, 2022

In this week’s podcast, super tiny technology is taking center stage! First up, I check out world’s first and smallest sensor that can enable touch gestures through any material. Dan Goehl (Co-founder and Chief Business Officer at UltraSense Systems) joins me to discuss how UltraSense’s new 3D ultrasound sensor is going to usher in a whole new era in user interfaces. Also this week, I investigate the world’s smallest antenna developed by a group of researchers at the Université de Montréal and how this new nanoantenna will help scientists better understand nanotechnologies and identify … Read More → "Changing the UI and UX Paradigm One Touch at a Time"

One Standard to Rule Them All: Matter and the Search for IoT Interoperability

by Amelia Dalton

January 7, 2022

It’s the first week of 2022 and I’ve got Matter on my mind! In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, we are talking about the Matter open standard, which promises to transform the future of IoT connectivity. … Read More →

The Most Important Compute Workloads of a Generation: How Cerebras Systems is Accelerating AI’s Potential

by Amelia Dalton

December 17, 2021

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the largest AI processor ever made! In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, Andy Hock (Cerebras Systems) joins me to chat about the largest AI processor ever made – the 7 nm wafer scale engine 2, the details of their brain-scale AI training, and how Cerebras Systems is democratizing access to high performance AI computation. Also this week, I check out a new kickstarter campaign called the SPORTSMATE 5: the world’s first and lightest portable wearable robotic exoskeleton that aims to alter the way we interact with the world by applying exoskeletons … Read More → "The Most Important Compute Workloads of a Generation: How Cerebras Systems is Accelerating AI’s Potential"

Fish Fry Special Edition: Makers Today! Dr. Gough Lui

by Amelia Dalton

December 15, 2021

Welcome to the seventh installment of a special edition series of our long-running Fish Fry podcast called “Makers Today!” — highlighting the movers and shakers in the Maker space. In this month’s episode, my guest is Dr. Gough Lui! Dr. Gough and I chat about creating the product review section of his website called “Dr. Gough’s Review Challenge” and what sets his reviews apart from other technology/component reviews. We also discuss his role as a top member of the element14 community, the details of his recent blog post about a crude inverter design and how a gift … Read More → "Fish Fry Special Edition: Makers Today! Dr. Gough Lui"

A New Anti-Piracy Server Certification Protocol and A New Way to Simplify Quantum Computers

by Amelia Dalton

December 10, 2021

In honor of the SEMICON West 2021 and the Design Automation Conference that took place in San Francisco this week, my guest is Bob Smith from ESD Alliance. Bob and I are chatting about a new anti-piracy server certification protocol for software license management and why this kind of server certification protocol is needed now more than ever before. Also this week, I take a closer look at a new simplified quantum computer developed by a team of researchers at Stanford University. (Spoiler Alert: They use off the shelf parts!)

The Fantastic Road Forward: The Future of 3D IC Design and the Discovery of Self-Replicating Living Robots

by Amelia Dalton

December 3, 2021

This week’s podcast is all about the future of 3D IC tools and methodologies and the newest advancement in xenobot research. Vinay Patwardhan (Cadence Design Systems) and I discuss the challenges engineers experience when designing 3D chips, where existing 3D-IC tools and methodologies fall short, and what type of analysis we need for a 3D stack system as opposed to a standard chip design. Also this week, I investigate how a group of researchers from the University of Vermont, Tufts University, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have discovered a brand new form … Read More → "The Fantastic Road Forward: The Future of 3D IC Design and the Discovery of Self-Replicating Living Robots"

Fish Fry Special Edition: Makers Today! OKdo

by Amelia Dalton

November 24, 2021

We are switching things up for our sixth installment of my new special edition series of our long-running Fish Fry podcast called “Makers Today!”, where we highlight the movers and shakers in the maker space. In this month’s episode, my guests are Katie Clubb and Richard Curtin from OKdo! Katie, Richard and I chat about OKdo’s mission to encourage inspiration with the Okdo Projects Hub, how you can recycle your pre-loved Raspberry Pis with their new Okdo Renew Program and how they are encouraging STEM education throughout the world.

The Indy Autonomous Challenge

by Amelia Dalton

November 19, 2021

On your mark. Get set. Let’s fry some fish! In this week’s podcast I am happy to bring in Joe Speed from ADLINK to talk all about the Indy Autonomous Challenge, the first autonomous race car competition at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway! Joe and I dig into some of the behind-the-scenes work at this first of its kind autonomous challenge including details of the ADLINK AVA-3501 series rugged edge platform that was supplied to each of the teams, the IAC base vehicle software, and more!

Superhuman Code, Semantic Analyzers, and Automated Debugging: How Machine Programming Will Change the Future of Electronic Engineering

by Amelia Dalton

November 12, 2021

What if we could improve engineering productivity by 1000% and decrease debugging by 50%? In this week’s podcast, we investigate how machine programming will help us do all of this and more! Justin Gottschlich (Principal AI Scientist & Director/Founder of Machine Programming Research at Intel Labs) joins me for a deep dive into the world of machine programming. We take a closer look at the motivation behind the development of this pioneering research initiative, the … Read More → "Superhuman Code, Semantic Analyzers, and Automated Debugging: How Machine Programming Will Change the Future of Electronic Engineering"