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This is how the system is really broken. And again, Netflix has a really great documentary called 13th, that explains a lot of that. We need to accept that's the way our system is; we need to change it, but it will take some time. In the meantime, you have a choice to do something wherever you are, and I think that's w... |
\[52:06\] We're losing that, and as engineers I think we're even more disconnected, because we add even more abstraction layers to things. That's why it's so hard to work with other engineers, because we know how to deal with code, but the communication and the social aspect is not being taught, and often it's not even... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** No, preach it. Everybody's just agreeing in silence. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, I'm just kind of sitting here, thinking to myself... This is something I really would like to get involved in. |
**Matt Aimonetti:** And you don't have to go to prison, either... It's not for everyone. By the way, men and women are welcome, and there are men and women jails, just to be clear. There are some rules. You cannot wear some colors, like blue and yellow and orange, and women cannot wear bras with wires... There's a few ... |
There are other projects that exist if you're interested in helping... Nifty is another one... It's a program that teaches both programming and entrepreneurship. It's a bit more entrepreneurship, but it's for kids. Therefore, if you know how to run a project, you will be able to help with that. You can participate in l... |
I think the first step is for us to reconnect as human beings. I think most of us - and I know I am - an introvert, and it makes it hard. I don't really want to go and hang out too much with people I don't know, but doing that also teaches you a lot about yourself, and when you come back to your code, you have a differ... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, this is great. I think we've only got a few minutes left. Did anybody wanna chat about any projects or news that have come across your email or social media, that you found interesting? |
**Matt Aimonetti:** Just before we jump on to that, I actually have one suggestion. We just started doing something at Splice last quarter, and every quarter we give a civic day to people. That civic day is a day off where you go and you help your community. It can be political or not, but then you have to come back an... |
I think you might want to bring that up to the different people, to do it... We were very receptive to it, and I think that's something that a lot of leaders would agree is really helpful, and it brings the morale up and it helps things. So if you have a hard time finding time in your own schedule to do it, go talk to ... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** That sounds amazing. Because when you give and when you volunteer, or you help somebody in any way, you feel great, and it's so great to go back to work... Now I feel great about myself, because I did something good. And if the whole team is having that experience, it must be amazing. |
**Erik St. Martin:** And schools... Schools would be another great place to volunteer time. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I love to do the Great American Teach-In every year. That's my favorite things to do, favorite day of the year. |
**Matt Aimonetti:** What is it? Can you tell us more? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** \[55:55\] The Great American Teach-In. I don't know if they do it everywhere, but in the schools around here in Florida they invite parents to come in and teach classes for the day about the things you do at work. Last year I brought in a AR.Drone and we programmed it with Gobot, and the kids (secon... |
**Matt Aimonetti:** That sounds awesome. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** It does... Wow. |
**Erik St. Martin:** I don't think it's a national thing, I think it is a local thing. It might even only be the county, but... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Well, then they shouldn't call it the Great American Teach-In... \[laughter\] |
**Matt Aimonetti:** Yeah, I know in California you need to go through a certain process to be able to interact with kids at school. Even though I'm a parent and I have my kids in school, I need to go once a year, I need to do the special training before I can even interact with other kids. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Oh, wow... Yeah, anytime you put some sort of barrier like that, it makes it harder for people to get involved. |
**Matt Aimonetti:** But it might keep some kids safe at the same time, so it's always a hard balance, right? |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, that's very true. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, we have to do background checks before we can go to the school, and that takes weeks. So it's not just a simple process here either. So why don't we move on to our interesting news? Erik, you were mentioning that a moment ago. |
I saw the coolest video -- I think I saw it on Twitter... It's by Scott Lobdell. I don't know where Scott Lobdell works, but he built a Blimp that has autopilot that's controlled by a Raspberry Pi in Go. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Nice! |
**Brian Ketelsen:** The video was amazing, he set up some GPS waypoints in the Raspberry Pi and programmed the Blimp to try to navigate four or five waypoints. We'll put the [link](http://scottlobdell.me/2017/03/experimental-blimp-autopilot-test-flight-2/) to that in the show notes. It's really cool to watch the video ... |
**Matt Aimonetti:** Did he do that in his free time? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I don't know the answer to that. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Or was it a school project, or something like that? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** He was an adult, and I have this feeling that they were related in some way to perhaps the work that they did, but I don't know. |
**Matt Aimonetti:** I'm very envious right now. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Right...? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** It's a really cool video and a great read. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Along the same lines of Go in hardware, have you guys seen the [Gokrazy](https://gokrazy.org/) project? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yes! |
**Erik St. Martin:** Have you seen it, Matt? |
**Matt Aimonetti:** No, I haven't. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Gokrazy is apparently an all Go userland for the Raspberry Pi. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** What's a userland? |
**Erik St. Martin:** So you have things that run basically in kernel space, which is the operating system itself... The things that you normally write, the everyday applications that run on top of the operating system are really userland. So it basically gets rid of a lot of C applications and some of the interactions ... |
**Matt Aimonetti:** That's interesting. So what's the goal...? First, I had a really hard time googling it... Somebody sent me the link. It's Gokrazy... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Right. |
**Matt Aimonetti:** But what's the purpose of it? Why would you want to do that? Besides "Go is awesome" and you want to use it everywhere... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That may be it... |
**Erik St. Martin:** \[59:45\] I think the purpose of it is really just to have a trimmed down operating system for the Raspberry Pi that only runs Go applications. I think they're marketing it as a security thing, just because of the nature of buffer overflows and things like that in C. |
**Matt Aimonetti:** Right. It looks like they also have a web interface on top of it, so instead of doing system calls, we can make HTTP calls. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Right. It seems interesting for doing home projects, where you want to write the application in Go but deploy it to your Raspberry Pi without necessarily using the Raspberry Pi as a Linux device. I didn't get to play with it yet, but it looks cool |
**Matt Aimonetti:** Yeah, I'm excited. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** It's on my "Someday..." list. |
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