{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"487: Focus on Fizzing","description":"Chris and Elecia chat about simulated robots, portents in the sky, the futility of making plans, and grad school.&amp;nbsp; A problem with mics led us to delay the show with Shimon Schoken from Nand2Tetris (co-author of Elements of  The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles). Look for that later in the year. Elecia is playing with Webots, a robotics physics simulator. Simpler than ROS\u2019s Gazebo, it also can run in an online mode where you can run it on a browser, selecting between many different robots.&amp;nbsp; Chris talked about processing his photos of Comet  C\/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan\u2013ATLAS) using PixInsight and Siril. Then we talked about grad school (including Georgia Tech\u2019s reasonably affordable CS Master\u2019s Degree). Tony sent in this insect detector: Mothbox. If you want links like this or de facto letters to the editor, please sign up for the Embedded.fm newsletter. Transcript &amp;nbsp;     Photo of Comet C\/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan\u2013ATLAS), taken from Seacliff Beach in Aptos, CA by Chris White  ","author_name":"Embedded","author_url":"https:\/\/embedded.fm","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/33507232\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/179846482"}