<p>It started at a conference. When Sara Chipps sat in the audience and watched a speaker use JavaScript to interact with a smoke detector, she was entranced. She left with a bag of LEDs, and a new love for hardware that led to her ultimately starting her hardware company Jewliebots. She talks to us about her transition from software developer to hardware CEO, the differences she's seen between building software and hardware, and what it's like to build a product for teenage girls.</p> <h4>Show Links</h4> <ul><li><a href="https://dev.to/advertise">Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie!</a> (sponsor) </li> <li><a href="http://highway1.io">Highway 1</a></li> <li><a href="http://json.org">JSON</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.arduino.cc ">Arduino</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OQ21CA/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000OQ21CA&linkCode=as2&tag=coden-20&linkId=YR7IZJGNJYRTWFXO">Wire strippers</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldering_iron">Soldering irons</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking">Mesh network</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.codenewbie.org/blogs/what-is-open-source">Open source</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nexxy">Emily Rose</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.guinness.com/en-us/home.html">Guiness beer</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode">LED</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/rwaldron/johnny-five">Johnny Five</a></li> <li><a href="http://jewliebots.com/">Jewliebots</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/rwaldron">Rick Waldron</a></li> <li><a href="http://rckbt.me">Spark</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/reconbot">Francis Gulotta</a></li> <li><a href="https://cnewbie.io/2GhU03r">Codeland Conf</a></li> <li><a href="https://cnewbie.io/2Q5oA26">Codeland 2019</a></li> </ul><h4>Sara Chipps</h4><p>Sara Chipps is CEO of Jewliebots and lover of JavaScript</p>

Ep. 26 - The Hardware Marketplace (Julia Grace)

The CodeNewbie podcast was born from CodeNewbie, an organization which fosters a supportive, international community of people learning to code. Each season, host Saron Yitbarek delivers stories and interviews from people of diverse backgrounds and expertise about their coding journeys, as well as beginner friendly discussions about the tech you should know about.