Microcontrollers & dev platforms
Product design & engineering
1,249 episodes across 35 shows cover microcontrollers & dev platforms. The shows that cover it most are The Amp Hour, Embedded.fm and Hackaday Podcast. The most recent, from 9 Oct 2026, is “Ep 390: DOOM, Cranium Stuff, and Odd OpenSCAD Opportunities” from Hackaday Podcast.
Choosing processors and modules, and dev boards and ecosystems such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP32, nRF, STM32.
1249 episodes from 35 shows, most relevant and most recent first.
1249 episodes
The Onio Batteryless Vision with Kjetil Meisal
Kjetil Meisal, CEO and co-founder of Norwegian semiconductor startup ONiO, discusses the ONiO.zero, a batteryless microcontroller powered by ambient energy harvesting. He explains the chip's custom RISC-V architecture, multi-protocol 2.4…
EP 192: Talking Apple Silicon with Apple's Tom Boger, Kaiann Drance, and Sri Santhanam
Tom Boger, Kaiann Drance, and Sri Santhanam from Apple discuss the transition to 2-nanometer process technology across the A20 Pro and M-series chips, highlighting the shift to a dual neural engine and unified memory architecture. They…
Deep Dive into Arm’s Physical AI and Robotics Strategies with Drew Henry
Drew Henry, Executive Vice President of Arm’s Physical AI business unit, explains how Arm is shifting from component-level design to system-level architecture for robotics and autonomous vehicles. He details the critical engineering…
Rubber Duck Incarnate
Dave Jones and Chris Gammell discuss the recent public falling out between SparkFun and Adafruit, which resulted in Adafruit losing the right to resell the Teensy microcontroller board designed by Paul Stoffregen. They analyze the…
Perpetual Wearable Biosensing with Andy Kong
Andy Kong, founder of Chargerless, explains how his pre-seed wearable biosensing device achieves perpetual operation using just one minute of daily sunlight. He details the system architecture, which relies on a deliberately underpowered…
506: How Do I Fit a Whale Into an Apartment Building?
Dmitry Grinberg, a software engineer known for running Linux on extremely constrained hardware, explains his projects including 8-pin Linux and Linux on the Intel 4004. He details how he emulates a MIPS processor on small microcontrollers…
How FPGAs become the gatekeepers of Physical AI Security
Eric Sivertson, VP of Security Business at Lattice Semiconductor, explains how FPGAs provide deterministic guardrails for physical AI and robotics, addressing the shift from traditional IT risk to real-world safety risks. He details how…
Chips at the Edge: Innovation for AI at Edge and Automotive
Hezzy Tzar, Executive Director at Synopsys, discusses the shift of AI workloads from the cloud to the edge, highlighting the critical balance of power, performance, and cost in devices like smartphones and automotive systems. He explains…
MicroPython with Matt Trentini
Matt Trentini, Principal Software Engineer at Planet Innovation, explains how his team uses MicroPython for professional embedded development, including Class B medical devices. He details the benefits of the interactive REPL and the Unix…
Episode 94: Chatting Apple Silicon with Apple's Tim Millet and Tom Boger
Apple executives Tom Boger and Tim Millet explain how Apple Silicon serves as a foundational pillar of the company's product ecosystem, enabling form factors like the Mac mini and iPad through a relentless pursuit of performance per watt…
The RP2350 with the Raspberry Pi Team
James Adams, Chris Boross, Liam Fraser, and Luke Wren from the Raspberry Pi team discuss the RP2350 microcontroller, detailing its evolution from the RP2040 with a focus on new security features, low-power modes, and the addition of a…
Unshrouding Turin (or Benvenuto a Torino)
George Cozma of Chips and Cheese joins Bryan Cantrill, Robert Mustacchi, and the Oxide team to discuss AMD's 5th Gen EPYC processor, codename Turin, and Oxide's development of their next-generation Turin-based platform, Cosmo. The…
Zephyr with Luka Mustafa
Luka Mustafa, founder and CEO of Irnas Product Development, explains how Zephyr RTOS, a Linux Foundation-backed project, enables hardware-agnostic embedded development by abstracting low-level details through device trees and a…
Space Age Bluetooth with Alex Haro
Alex Haro, co-founder and CEO of Hubble, explains how his company has built a global tracking network using standard Bluetooth chips communicating directly with low-Earth orbit satellites. Haro details the technical innovation of using…
Episode 70!!! NPUs!!!!!!!!
Ben Bajarin and Jay Goldberg host Austin Lyons and Paul Karazuba to discuss the architecture, market, and future of Neural Processing Units (NPUs). The group debunks the metric 'TOPS per watt' as meaningless, arguing that real-world…
Rust with Milica Kostic
Milica Kostic, an embedded software architect with a background in electrical engineering and safety-critical industries like medical devices, discusses her journey from C/C++ to adopting Rust in production. She explains that the most…
Tracking & Locationing Technologies from Renesas
Annie Ru, a product marketing engineer at Renesas, explains the evolution from simple asset tracking to intelligent, real-time 'locationing' using Renesas Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) System on Chips (SoCs). She details three core…
Silicon Revolution with Matt Venn
Matt Venn, founder of Tiny Tapeout and Zero to Asic, explains how Tiny Tapeout democratizes chip design by subdividing multi-project wafers (MPWs) from eFabless into affordable, small slots for hobbyists and students. He details the…
Episode 107: NVIDIA Earnings and Peak Nvidia? (Sentiment Wise)
Ben Bajarin and Jay Goldberg analyze Nvidia's recent earnings, discussing whether the company has reached 'Peak Nvidia' as its stock underperforms despite strong fundamentals. They explore the shift in market focus from pure revenue growth…
A Theoretical Framework for Neuromorphic Technology?
Dr. Brad Aimone of Sandia National Laboratories discusses his proposed theoretical framework for neuromorphic engineering, explaining why large-scale platforms like Intel's Loihi 2 and Spinnaker 2 are suited for Monte Carlo simulations and…
Leading the RISC-V Revolution, SiFive Aims to Take the Computing Industry Throne
Jack Kang, Senior Vice President at SiFive and a founding team member, discusses his career trajectory from designing CPUs at Marvell and NVIDIA (working on the Xbox Kinect and Nintendo Switch) to joining the startup. He explains how…
The State of AIoT | Transforma Insights' Jim Morrish | Internet of Things Podcast
Jim Morrish, Founding Partner at Transforma Insights, defines AIoT as the specific deployment of AI algorithms on IoT devices rather than in the cloud, enabling benefits like reduced latency, privacy, and lower bandwidth usage. He…
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Adventures in Data Corruption
Bryan Cantrill, Adam Leventhal, John Gallagher, and Rain Paharia of Oxide Computer Company discuss a bizarre data corruption bug discovered two years prior during their sled recovery process. The team traced the issue to CPU speculative…
Cracking The Code Of Automotive Radar: An Inside Look With Arbe's Chief Radar Officer
Gonen Barkan, Chief Radar Officer at Arbe, explains how his company’s high-resolution 4D imaging radar chipsets provide superior safety for autonomous driving compared to legacy systems. He details the technical shift from simple tracking…
Episode 46: A Discussion with Arm CEO Rene Haas
Rene Haas, CEO of Arm, explains that Arm is the 'brain' powering 70% of the world's electronic devices, operating through a licensing model rather than manufacturing chips. He details a strategic shift from generic CPU designs to…
Hands-on Physical AI with Kevin Cloutier
Kevin Cloutier, North American Lead for Physical AI at a global engineering consulting firm, explains the transition from legacy, statically programmed industrial robots to modern systems using imitation learning and 'Physical AI.' He…
Arduino Light Lock, Raspberry Pi Pico Cluster, Multiplayer BLE DOOM, and more!
The host reviews several maker projects, including a Spark Fun Thing Plus Matter running multiplayer BLE Doom on a Silicon Labs EFR32MG24, and a Raspberry Pi Pico cluster built by Ben Everett using I2C. The episode announces the December…
Death by Uptime
Bryan Cantrill, Adam Leventhal, Cliff Biffle, Matt Keeter, and Will Chandler of Oxide Computer Company discuss debugging a production failure where all 16 compute sled service processors (SPs) became unresponsive after ~188 days of uptime…
CH32V003...fun! with CNLohr
CNLohr joins Chris Gammell to discuss the CH32V003, a low-cost RISC-V microcontroller, and his open-source CH32V003fun library. He explains how he implemented a software-only USB stack and used the chip to control a Nixie tube display…
Heterogeneous Computing with Raja Koduri
Raja Koduri, former chief architect at Intel and AMD, joins Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal to explain the differences between CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs through historical and analogical lenses. Koduri traces the evolution from 3dfx…
Episode 24: The Arm CPU Datacenter Potential
Ben Bajarin and Jay Goldberg discuss the potential of Arm CPUs in the data center, highlighting Oracle's decision to port its core database software to Ampere's Arm-based silicon as a major milestone in overcoming software barriers. They…
Arduino Nano ESP32, RP1, M5Dial and much much more!
The host reviews the Arduino Nano ESP32, highlighting its combination of the popular ESP32 SoC with the Arduino Nano form factor and IDE support, while noting its 3.3V tolerance limits compatibility with legacy 5V shields. He discusses the…
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Episode 21: A Discussion on RISC-V with Calista Redmond CEO of RISC-V International
Calista Redmond, CEO of RISC-V International, explains that RISC-V is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) rather than open-source software, providing a frozen, global standard that prevents vendor lock-in while allowing…
#013: Prepping Your AI Model for the Wild: Building Edge AI Models That Work in the Real World
David Tischler and Alessandro Grande from Edge Impulse discuss the practical realities of deploying Edge AI models on constrained devices, emphasizing that customization and fine-tuning are the primary value propositions over raw model…
BrainChip’s IP for Targeting AI Applications at the Edge
Dr. Tony Lewis, CTO of BrainChip, and scientists Dr. Rudy Rupay, Dr. Olivier Quinan, and Dr. Chris Carlson discuss the company's temporal event-based neural network (TENN) and its application in the Akida chip. They explain how TENN uses…
Productive Pi Hacks, Amazing Arduino Inventions, New Hardware Galore!
The host of The Electromaker Show reviews several maker projects, including Matthias Wandel’s RP2040-based microwave current sensor and Alisdair Allan’s hack of an IKEA Vindriktning air quality monitor using a Raspberry Pi Pico W. The…
AI and Connectivity at the Edge and Endpoint
Kaushal Vora and Mo Dogar from Renesas discuss the convergence of AI and IoT (AIoT) at the edge, distinguishing between resource-intensive generative AI and predictive AI suited for constrained endpoint devices. They highlight Renesas'…
AI Generative Camera, Pi Pico W Bluetooth, Swift on Hardware, and more!
The host discusses the Raspberry Pi Pico W gaining full Bluetooth support in MicroPython, followed by Paragraphica, a generative AI camera by Bjorn Carmen that uses location data and Stable Diffusion to create images without capturing…
Benjamin Cabé Nose Zephyr
Benjamin Cabé, Developer Advocate for the Zephyr Project, explains that Zephyr is an open-source RTOS and ecosystem that provides hardware abstraction, device trees, and subsystems to simplify embedded development. He highlights how major…
Buzzword Bingo (or: which modern technologies make sense for embedded?)
Hosts Jeff Gable and Luca Ingianni evaluate modern development buzzwords for embedded systems, discussing the applicability of web technologies like Kubernetes and Docker, the nuances of CI/CD pipelines, and the practical adoption of Rust…
Exploring Rust for Embedded Systems with Philip Markgraf
Philip Markgraf, an experienced software developer and technical leader, discusses his recent experience building an embedded device for Kelvin, a green energy company, using the Rust programming language. He contrasts Rust's memory…
#004: The Future of Edge AI and What it Means for Device Makers
Alex Samuelson, CTO and co-founder of Imagimob, joins Memfault founders Francois Baldassari and Chris Coleman to discuss the practical implementation of Edge AI on embedded devices. They highlight how hardware accelerators like the…
#003: Pebble's Code is Free: Three Former Pebble Engineers Discuss Why It's Important (PART 1/2)
Francois Baldassari, Chris Coleman, and Brad Murray, former engineers at Pebble, discuss the technical architecture and engineering decisions behind PebbleOS. They explain how a single codebase supported multiple hardware variants…
Microcontroller Showdown: Selecting the Best One for Your Project
Host John Teel explains how to select the right microcontroller for electronic products, warning against mid-project changes and emphasizing the need for 'room to grow' in GPIO and performance. He categorizes microcontrollers into 8-bit…
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Microcontroller or Microprocessor - Which Do You Need for Your Project?
John Teel, host of the Predictable Designs Podcast, explains how to choose between a microcontroller (MCU) and a microprocessor (MPU) for electronic products. He argues that 90% of projects should start with an MCU, citing the STM32F469 as…
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416: EEs Are From PIC, SWEs Are From Arm
John Catsoulis, founder of Udamonic, discusses his Scamp development board, which runs the Forth programming language on a PIC24 microcontroller. He contrasts the efficiency and direct hardware interaction of Forth with the abstractions of…
Changing the World One Wireless RF Chip at a Time
David Su, co-founder and CEO of Atmosic Technologies, discusses his career journey from HP Labs and Atheros to founding Atmosic, where he leverages decades of RF design experience to create ultra-low-power wireless chips. He explains how…
Edge Devices and LLMs: What's Ahead for AI
Jan Jongboom, co-founder of Edge Impulse, discusses the feasibility of running Large Language Models (LLMs) on edge devices by reducing their size through knowledge distillation and synthetic data generation. He explains that while…
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 released! Particle Tachyon 5G SBC! So Many RP2350 devkits! Hoorah!
The host of The Electromaker Show details the release of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 and its RP2350 microcontroller, highlighting the dual-core architecture (ARM Cortex-M33 and RISC-V Hazard 3), increased SRAM, and new security features like…
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Renode with Michael Gielda
Michael Gielda, co-founder and VP of Business Development at Antmicro, discusses Renode, an open-source simulator for embedded systems that allows developers to run production binaries on a computer. He explains how Renode’s determinism…