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Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast · 13 Aug 2022 · 52m

What this episode covers

Hosts Alvaro and Jen celebrate the 5-year anniversary of the Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast with a retrospective on their personal and professional lives. Jen discusses her transition to voiceover work, her new role in research, and her ethical concerns regarding robotics, while Alvaro highlights the podcast's most popular episodes and the success of the Asahi Linux project. They also promote the book Open Circuits by Wendell and Eric, sharing a discount code for listeners.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Evil Mad Scientist Labs
Products
Asahi Linux, xArm 6
Tools
Ferrite, Zencastr, Audacity
Also
Embedded.fm

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