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 saw? Merlin Bird ID is a free app that is amazing.

• Plucky Cards: Want to have a 1:1 where you talk about more than your status? Choose a card, any card. Or maybe just look through and have a 1:1 by yourself

Just reading about Bunnie Huang's new RISCV board Dabao Evaluation Board for Baochip-1x taught us things! We're not sure what we'd use it for yet but it does spark a few ideas.

The Embedded.fm Patreon Slack book club is reading Pragmatic Programmer 20th Anniversary Edition.

Talking about open source projects and governance models, we referenced three contributing guidelines: Valetudo, ESPHome, and Zephyr. Some later research led to Leadership and Governance | Open Source Guides and presentation by Cornelius Schumacher – The spectrum of FOSS governance models (Slides). The link between the politics associated with the size of companies and the open source governance models clearly needs a bit more thought.

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Sonia Grego speaks with us about a topic no one likes to talk about, but could be used to monitor personal dietary health and widespread disease outbreaks. Toilets! Sonia leads Duke University's Smart Toilet Lab and the spin out Coprata which makes the Microbiome Activity Tracker.

As discussed in the show, when developing a project far from where it will be deployed, there are many common issues. The Lessons Learned chapter of Sonia's recent book gives an excellent introduction to the unexpected environment far from the comfort of desks. The book is (free online!) Engineering Field Testing of Non-Sewered Sanitation Systems: Compendium of Lessons Learned,

See Sonia Grego at Duke Electrical & Computer Engineering, the Smart Toilet Lab as well as Sonia's company Coprata.

Some terms that came up in the show:

• Coprolite: fossilized excrement (Wikipedia entry has great(?) pics!)

• Scatological: material, humor, or language that relates directly to bodily waste

• Helminths: parasitic worms including roundworms, tapeworms, and fluke (oh look. more great images on Wiki entry)

Poop jokes

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Kenneth Finnegan entertained us with stories about accidentally contributing to the internet's ability to network.

Wondering how the internet works? All those terms about IPv4, IPv6, BGP, OSPF, CDN and other alphabet soup? Check out the YouTube videos by NetworkChuck.

Kenneth writes about his adventures on his blog, The Life of Kenneth. Some of the posts related to this show are:

• Creating an Internet Exchange for Even More Fun and Less Profit

• Building an Anycast Secondary DNS Service

• Building the Micro Mirror Free Software CDN

We also mention FCIX aka fcix.net or the Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange

You can also find Kenneth at @kwf@social.afront.org where you will find more about half-dollars, nickels, and trains.

If you also secretly long to run a locomotive, take a look at the Run-A-Locomotive program at WPRM.

The title is related to the XKCD comic 2347: Dependency.

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