About

A curated directory of podcasts about building physical products: electronics and embedded systems, industrial design, manufacturing and supply chains, and the business of getting a product into people’s hands. Every show is chosen for it, and every show has a page saying what it covers, where to start and where to listen.

Shows that have stopped publishing stay in the archive. What a team learned shipping a product in 2014 is still worth hearing.

Hardware is learned from people who have shipped it. The most useful lessons, like why a tooling change slipped a launch, how a team got through certification or what a contract manufacturer wishes its customers knew, are rarely written down. They are said out loud on podcasts, then buried a few hundred episodes deep in a back catalogue.

Podcast apps are built for following a show. This site is built for finding the episode, and the moment in it, that answers the question in front of you, whatever part of building hardware you work on.

• Every show’s feed is checked hourly, so new episodes appear within the hour.
• Each episode is summarised, split into chapters and tagged by topic from its transcript. The summaries are machine-made; the transcripts behind them are kept private, and pages quote only short, attributed passages.
• Play buttons and links go to each publisher’s own audio and site. Nothing is rehosted, so every listen counts for the show that made it.
• A monthly review picks out the strongest moments across every show from the month before.

• Make a hardware podcast? Submit your podcast.
• Spotted something wrong, or want a listing changed? Send us feedback.

The directory is readable without scraping. Nothing needs a key; please cite the directory and link the episode page when you use a summary.

• llms.txt lists every show, and llms-full.txt adds every listed episode.
• Any page answers in Markdown when asked with Accept: text/markdown. An episode page’s Markdown is also at its URL plus /text.
• sitemap.xml carries every URL with the date it last changed.
• The formats are described in OpenAPI and listed in the API catalog.