Podcast Episodes

The Secret Chip

Episode 510

Christina Cyr spoke with us about building cell phones, entrepreneurship, social purpose corporations, awards, lithium recycling, and her interesting career path. 

We talked about Christina’s Cyrc…

Published on 9 hours ago

Swarmed by Engineers

Episode 509

Steve Hinch wrote a book about engineering, innovation, and business. He shares decades of wisdom gleaned from his career at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent as an engineer, manager, marketing director, a…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Descartes' Demon

Episode 508

William Griffin spoke to us about hardware-in-the-loop testing, simulation, terminology, learning complex topics, and books.

We don’t usually expand upon the show title but Wikipedia has a rabbit hol…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Turn Our Data Into Predators

Episode 507

Chris and Elecia chat about books, courses, alternate podcasts, electronics, statistics, kidnapping Roo, and journaling failures. 

The Embedded Patreon book club is reading Data-Driven Science and En…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

How Do I Fit a Whale Into an Apartment Building?

Episode 506

Dmitry Grinberg joined us to talk about running Linux on small microprocessors (physically small and/or 4-bit). Dmitry does this by emulating a MIPS processor. Boot times vary between minutes and day…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Potato in a Number Field

Episode 505

We spoke with Peter Griffin about Jumperless Breadboards, no-install GUI development, Excel, and puppies.

Jumperless Breadboard at CrowdSupply

Colab GUI for Jumperless Breadboard

Website GUI for…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

The Robot Was Expecting It

Episode 504

It’s another episode with Elecia and Chris. This week they discuss people that have influenced their lives and careers, thinking about past career choices and regrets therein, identities, the Embedde…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Tiniest Laptops

Episode 503

Emily Lovell spoke with us about teaching how to contribute to open source, including her own experience creating the LilyTiny as a Master’s student and researching the impact as a PhD student. 

The …

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Chat, J'ai Peté!

Episode 502

Chris and Elecia talk about Murderbot,  LLMs (AI), bikes, control algorithms, and fancy math. 

The website with the ecology jobs is wildlabs.net from 501: inside the Armpit of Giraffe with Meredith P…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Inside the Armpit of a Giraffe

Episode 501

We spoke with ecologist Dr. Meredith Palmer and embedded engineer Akiba about lions, terror, and technology. 

Akiba works for FreakLabs.org on global conservation projects. We talked about their Boom…

Published on 4 months ago