Hardware Podcasts

200: Oops

Embedded.fm · 17 May 2017 · 1h 38m

What this episode covers

Hosts Alicia and Christopher White celebrate the 200th episode of Embedded.fm with a panel of former guests: Alvaro Prieto, Andrei Chichak, Elizabeth Brenner, Chris Svec, and Chris Gammell. The group discusses their favorite embedded tools, including Saleae logic analyzers, Digilent Analog Discovery, Beyond Compare, and HP16C calculators, while sharing humorous field stories and interview anecdotes. They reflect on the joys of working in embedded systems, such as seeing products on retail shelves and the satisfaction of debugging complex hardware-software interactions.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
iRobot, Fitbit, Apple, Eli Lilly
Products
Raspberry Pi
Chips
ESP8266
Tools
Saleae, Digilent, Beyond Compare, HP16C, J-Link Pro

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