#675 – Changing Course with Shawn Hymel
Shawn Hymel is an engineer and content creator who recently left his developer relations job at Edge Impulse to work on developing courses full time
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
August 9, 2024
Show Notes
Welcome Shawn Hymel!
- Shawn will be transitioning out Developer Relations at Edge Impulse. He will now be building courses full time. (this was recorded before Shawn announced his departure)
- He want’s to be like a Professor, which partially explains his signature bowtie
- Should people go into content? What about Developer Relations more specifically?
- New courses will include FreeCAD and 3D printing and will be published by Digikey
- Part design in FreeCAD
- 0.22 in Mango Jelly
- Learning modeling vs learning an actual program
- Scoffolding
- Making a Zephyr course
- Zephyr / Golioth training
- Ecosystem vs RTOS
- Workshop at Harvard
- Trying to train on hardware
- What should engineers know about ML
- Andrew Ng’s course on Coursera
- Updated for NumPy / Python
- Understand Neural Networks
- Can treat them as a black box
- More important to understand statistics and data science
- Hot dog / not hot dog (silicon valley)
- Model zoos
- Hugging Face
- Coprocessing on U55 – U85
- ToorCamp
- Michael Cheich
- Robert Ferenec
- Marketing courses
- Running
- You can find Shawn as ShawnHymel on most social
- You can also check out his site, shawnhymel.com