joshj19

Impossible Aerospace | Embedded Software Engineer, Web Backend Engineer, Mobile (Android) Engineer, Lead Software Engineer, Electrical/Hardware Engineer | Full-Time | Santa Clara, CA | http://impossible.aero/

Impossible Aerospace is a venture-backed startup with the goal of reducing the environmental impact of commercial aviation by electrifying air transport. Our first product is the US-1, an enterprise quadrotor drone with a 2-hour flight time.

We are hiring embedded software engineers to work on multiple projects including flight control, motor control, radios, cameras, battery management systems, etc. Multiple different target platforms, including bare-metal on ARM, RTOS on ARM, and embedded Linux.

We are also hiring web and mobile developers to build out new applications for remote operations of aircraft.

Hiring hardware engineers to build out many different avionics systems.

Design and production of our product is in-house at our headquarters in Santa Clara. Current engineering team is about 15 engineers from aerospace (SpaceX and others), automotive (Tesla and others), and consumer electronics backgrounds.

Positions available at the entry, senior, and team-lead levels.

Interested? Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/impossible

Or email our Director of Engineering your resume: josh [at] impossible.aero

I'm assuming you want to do some low-level hardware integration with your Pi, in which case I would suggest starting by taking a look at this page:

http://elinux.org/RPi_Low-level_peripherals

It provides some information on how to interface with the GPIO pins with a multitude of programming languages. Granted it may not be an absolute beginner guide, it still has a lot of useful information. If I can find another guide I'll comment back here.

I'd also want to echo something that the other reply to your comment mentioned, which is that you should seriously consider starting with an Arduino if you want to do some lower-level programming/interfacing with hardware. From my personal experience, there's a little more documentation on that sort of thing with Arduino than the Raspberry Pi. Additionally, the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins are not fault tolerant, which means you could damage your Pi if you wire up your hardware improperly. If I remember correctly, Arduinos typically have some voltage fault tolerance (at least there are variants which do), and even if you fry the actual microcontroller chip on the board, it can be removed and replaced for a couple of dollars. Once you've got some experience on an Arduino board, then I'd recommend doing some of the low-level stuff on the Raspberry Pi.

This exactly. The net benefit to Amazon from improved customer service is likely worth the potential for a few lost products. Sure may be wrong, but to them it may just be a cost of doing business. It's not unlike many department store's policy of not targeting a shoplifter-in-action in a mall, especially once they've left the store (mostly for liability reasons).

Umm not to sound too negative, but genius is a pretty strong word. What about this is genius? Referral programs are hardly anything new.

Probably browser dependent. Edit: unless W3C mentioned something about it.

While this is true, the article also highlights the fact that many STEM PhDs are forced to work outside of their field, forcing them to throw away years of education. And also consider the statistic that a recent American Chemical Society survey indicated that 38% of new PhD chemists were unemployed.