Hardware Podcasts

284: Honking Big Asparagus

Embedded.fm · 4 Apr 2019 · 1h 12m · Episode 284

What this episode covers

Ori Bernstein, a software engineer at Level Hot Pantry, explains the physics of smart microwaves, focusing on how his company uses an array of 24 stepper-motor-driven antennas to steer microwave energy and cook food evenly. He details the challenges of dealing with standing waves, the dielectric properties of different foods, and the use of RGB cameras and machine learning to identify food items. Bernstein also discusses the company's B2B business model of providing catered meals to startups, the difficulty of cooking eggs due to pasteurization variations, and his personal projects like the Mythin programming language and contributions to OpenBSD and Plan 9.

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early-stage companies

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Markov, Facebook, Google, Costco
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OpenBSD, Plan 9, Mythin, ConWest, Hackaday, NRA, gRPC

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