523: Bad Experience With Donuts

About this episode

Chris and Elecia discuss Leapfrog toys, awards, and various tools and apps they enjoy.

Chris and Elecia chat about Leapfrog toys, things they like, large company politics, awards, and open source governance. The Toy Story 5 Trailer with LilyPad toy which is suspiciously similar to the LeapFrog LeapPad tablet. Which is different from the original LeapPad which had cartridges and capacitive touch (capacitive touch was used on the globe as well… the latest globe also has a screen ). Why does Elecia want an award? Who knows? But right now, she's getting ready for a listener to nominate the show (Chris and Elecia) for IEEE's Meritorious Achievement Award in Outreach and Informal Education . Probably. But we've got nominators and endorsers so that's mostly sorted. She also signed Embedded up for the Women Podcasters Award which is a popularity contest. You can vote here: www.womenpodcasters.com/awards-voting . The show is under the Science Podcasters category. Some things we like: Ctrl-R: In a command shell, ctrl-r searches your history. Better than ! because you don't have to remember as much. Data bars in Excel : This can create a plot of your data in the column. Merlin Bird ID : Want to know what bird is making that sound? Want to know the name of the bird you just…

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris, Elecia

Topics covered

• Leapfrog toys
• open source governance
• awards
• podcasting
• technology
• bird identification
• Excel data visualization

Keywords

• Leapfrog
• awards
• podcasting
• Merlin Bird ID
• Excel
• technology
• open source

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IEEE, Women Podcasters

Products: Leapfrog toys, LeapPad, Merlin Bird ID, Bunnie Huang's new RISCV board Dabao Evaluation Board for Baochip-1x

Books & works: Toy Story 5 Trailer

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