# 340: The Left Bunny Slipper

- Show: [Embedded.fm](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm)
- Published: 2020-08-06
- Length: 1h 04m
- Episode: 340
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2020-08-06-340-the-left-bunny-slipper
- Listen: https://makingembeddedsystems.libsyn.com/340-the-left-bunny-slipper

## Summary

Hosts Elecia White and Christopher White discuss the launch of professional transcriptions for Embedded.fm, driven by accessibility insights from Haben Girma’s book 'Haben'. They address listener questions on embedded career paths, clarifying that proficiency in either bare-metal or embedded Linux is sufficient, and explain RTOS debugging challenges, noting that most microcontrollers lack memory protection for true process isolation. The conversation concludes with a technical deep dive into LISP (Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol), explaining how it decouples device identity from network location to solve routing scalability and mobility issues in IPv4 and IPv6 networks.

## Chapters

- [0:37](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2020-08-06-340-the-left-bunny-slipper#t=37) Introduction and Patreon Transcription Announcement
- [4:05](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2020-08-06-340-the-left-bunny-slipper#t=245) Accessibility and Haben Girma's Book
- [13:06](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2020-08-06-340-the-left-bunny-slipper#t=786) Embedded Engineering Career Advice: Bare-Metal vs Linux
- [23:27](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2020-08-06-340-the-left-bunny-slipper#t=1407) RTOS Debugging and Process Isolation Challenges
- [34:22](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2020-08-06-340-the-left-bunny-slipper#t=2062) Circular Buffers and Data Flow
- [42:42](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2020-08-06-340-the-left-bunny-slipper#t=2562) LISP: Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol

## Topics

- [Embedded firmware](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/embedded-firmware)
- [Careers & education](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/engineering-careers-and-education)
- [Connected products & IoT](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/connected-products-and-iot)
- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- Haben Girma (other)
- Scribd (company)
- FreeRTOS (other)
- Zephyr (other)
- ThreadX (other)
- uC/OS (other)
- LISP (other)
- Chris Gammell (other)
- Contextual Electronics (other)

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- [The Spark Gap - Episode 4](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-spark-gap/2014-07-06-the-spark-gap-episode-4) (The Spark Gap)
- [Focus, Dammit](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2020-10-25-focus-dammit) (The Amp Hour)
- [Zephyr with Luka Mustafa](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-pragmatic-embedded-podcast/2025-11-09-zephyr-with-luka-mustafa) (The Pragmatic Embedded Podcast)
- [The Spark Gap - Episode 39](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-spark-gap/2015-08-12-the-spark-gap-episode-39) (The Spark Gap)
- [Why isn't this working?](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2020-02-14-why-isnt-this-working) (The Amp Hour)

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