Who are the authors for the content of the first month's issue? The articles on the site don't list an author, which makes me think it's all written by Edwin Nagle, which makes me wonder if anyone else will contribute to the monthly issues.
I highly recommend Scratch! I wrote a post of the resources that my kid used. It's the lowest friction way I know of to get kids actually creating something fun, with a pretty fast fast feedback loop.
On there I recommend 2 excellent tutorial series by Digipen that got my kid started, and then a higher level "Scratcher" to follow who has excellent tutorials that are more advanced than the Digipen series.
It's 4 episodes long (episodes 23-26). It's an overview of Sid's career, and so it's very similar to his autobiography, but I enjoyed listening to Sid talk about it in a different way than I enjoyed reading the book.
I offer old hardware to local charities that reuse/recycle it, or on a “buy nothing” Facebook group where people will almost always take it and (hopefully) make better use of it than I will.
I'm hiring an experienced embedded software engineer for my team at iRobot in Bedford, MA (just outside of Boston) [0]. Join me in making helpful home robots!
I've also got a 0-2 year experience embedded software role that doesn't have a job description yet: it's basically [0] with less experience.
iRobot is hiring a bunch of other software engineering positions as well. See all open positions at [1].
iRobot | Boston, MA and Pasadena, CA | ONSITE | Software Engineers | https://www.irobot.com/
iRobot (maker of the Roomba, among other robots) is hiring many types of software engineers for our Boston, MA and Pasadena, CA offices, including robotics, computer vision, machine learning, Android, software test, embedded linux, cloud, and more.
iRobot | Boston, MA and Pasadena, CA | ONSITE | Software Engineers | https://www.irobot.com/
iRobot (maker of the Roomba, among other robots) is hiring many types of software engineers for our Boston, MA and Pasadena, CA offices, including robotics, computer vision, machine learning, Android, software test, embedded linux, cloud, and more.
Zoom.us is GREAT! Video and audio quality are great, hiccups are rare, the screen sharing features are good, and it integrates easily into our physical offices with a decent iPad app. (I've tried hangouts, hipchat video, appear.in, and a few others, but Zoom is much better.)
As a remote employee, the Owl makes it much easier to be a part of a discussion around a table where most of the meeting participants are in a room at HQ, and a few of us are remote. (I know some of the employees, so I'm biased, but I like to think I would love the Owl even if I didn't know some of the team.)
Re: "This one is freely available -- and quite good."
All of the chapters/essays in the "Architecture of Open Source Applications" volumes 1 and 2 are freely available, in case that's not clear on the AOSA website: http://www.aosabook.org/en/
This book is from 1989, but it's a timeless and fascinating look at the minds of Bill Gates, Andy Hertzfeld (apple/mac), Dan Bricklin (visicalc), and 16 others.
iRobot | Software Engineers | Bedford, MA (near Boston, MA) and Pasadena, CA | ONSITE
iRobot is hiring software engineers like they're going out of style. Which they're not. Quite the opposite, really.
If you want to work with a bunch of friendly humans and robots, you should consider iRobot.
We've got a great culture, benefits, and products.
Most positions are for our Bedford, MA headquarters, which is just outside of Boston, MA.
We're looking for people to do embedded (aka firmware for buzzword compliance), cloud, mobile/iOS, test, and hardcore robotics as well. Those aren't the same person, mind you. We're also looking for electrical engineers and mechanical engineers.
We use mostly C and C++, with some Python along the way as well.
You do NOT need any robotics experience - I had none when I joined!