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Oxide and Friends 1:18:27

Dead Printers Tell No Tales

We've talked about Oxide's Root of Trust--the hardware underpinning the security of the product--but how do we keep a bad actor from spoofing Oxide to load malicious software? Philip Tricca joined Bryan and Adam to describe the key ceremony, the process of creating and storing the secret that plays a critical role in m...

Hackaday Podcast 1:01:59

Ep 392: Microscopes, Drones, and Other DIY Things

Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams met to review the week in Hackaday. Turns out, it was a week for tiny things, cybersecurity, nostalgia, and projects that would have been nearly impossible for the average hacker not that long ago. But first, you can hear a little about the upcoming Supercon badge and th...

Infrastructure Frontiers 1:00:30

October 19th, 2026

Industry experts run down all the AI news for engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by engineering leader, ops nerd, former mechanical engineer, and carpenter, Matthew Dean Furlo.In this episode:Anthropic redesigns source controlGoogle's Gemini 4 ArgonMeta opens Muse SparkMeta's Muse Wonder...

Oxide and Friends 1:21:31

Oxide's $445M Series D

After raising $200M in February... we raised another $445M in July! Your favorite computer company is capitalized to the gills--enough to weather the supply chain upheaval even! Come for co-founders Steve and Bryan describing the raise; stay for tax, debt, and credit talk with Scott Orn.In addition to Bryan Cantrill an...

Hackaday Podcast 1:08:40

Ep 391: Tuned in to ESP32 SDR, New Old Pagers, and Bugs on Mars

Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this episode off with a discussion about Philadelphia's budding hacker conference and the imminent retirement of the EZ80. After considering the parallels between the wide world of aviation headsets and our personal projects, talk moves on to the exciting development...

Oxide and Friends 1:26:16

Working on Wicked Problems

Wicked problems defy simple solutions. Even as we describe the problem, we may be presupposing particular solutions and narrowing scope. Our greatest, most persistent societal problems fit this model. Wicked problems may not be solvable, but progress can be made. Noah Harlan joins us to describe his technical entrepren...

Embedded 59:32

536: I've Seen a Giraffe

David Such joins us to discuss his new book, Embedded AI: Intelligence at the Deep Edge. We explore the boundary between classical signal processing, heuristics, and edge machine learning; IMU processing and sensor fusion; and how to determine what sort of ML fits on your processor. David also shares his experiences wr...

Infrastructure Frontiers 46:36

AI Frontiers - October 12th, 2026

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by longtime business partner, Swamp co-founder, behind the scenes dynamo, and COO of Swamp Club, Mahir Lupinacci. In this episode:Ghost AI puts an AI computer in your houseArtcraft clones the A...

Hackaday Podcast 49:21

Ep 390: DOOM, Cranium Stuff, and Odd OpenSCAD Opportunities

This week, Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met a few minutes later than usual, and somehow defeated a buzz together with the power of will before settling into the news, rifling through the Mailbag, and otherwise creating the attached podcast. So, the news. Amazon, in their infinite wisdom, have chosen to not only r...

Fork Around and Find Out 1:05:12

Weighing the Chickens with JT Perry

Come find Justin in-person and get FAFOFM stickers!Taloscon - Amsterdam, NL - October 15-16KCD UK - Edinburgh - October 19Kubecon NA - Salt Lake City, UT - November 9-12Have an opening? HIRE AUTUMN!!! She's looking for open source, forward deployed engineer, and developer relation roles. They need to be remote or flexi...

Infrastructure Frontiers 1:03:25

October 5th, 2026

Industry Experts run down all the AI news. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by data scientist before that was cool, former VP of Engineering at Chef, Prisma, BlaBlaCar and Calmwave, and now principal product engineer at Swamp Club, Seth Falcon.In this episode: Cal Newport says it's time to investi...

Hackaday Podcast 58:53

Hackaday Podcast Ep 389: Spinning Lightfield Displays and Jenny Visits a Blast Furnace

Another all-European podcast for you this week, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for an evening looking at the past week in Hackaday. And this week there is a particularly good selection to look at. A while back we showed you a project that put synthetic aperture radar on a drone, generating extremely detaile...

Embedded 1:29:35

535: The You in the Machine

Adam Smith from UC Santa Cruz joins us to discuss local Small Language Models (SLMs) and building open, autonomous tools. We explore his BayLeaf AI counterplatform, transagency (the "me-and-the-car" concept of human-agent collaboration), context distillation, and running models locally without relying on data-harvestin...

Infrastructure Frontiers 57:37

AI News for September 28th, 2026: Models cost less, Claude gets mods, Autopilot & Muse, DHH retires

Industry Experts run down all the AI news. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and John Watson are joined by principal engineer at Microsoft, lead architect for Azure Incubations, and chair of the Rust Foundation, Nell Shamrell-Harrington.In this episode:Colin Breck doesn't want to read what you didn't writeAnthropic drops Opus 5....

Hackaday Podcast 1:14:17

Ep 388: RAM-Swapping on Raspberry Pi, Raindrops on Radar, and a Fine Mesh

This week, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams had a lot to talk about. From advice for a young hacker to using a laser to break into a microcontroller, there was plenty to cover from the week in Hackaday. From the "Point/Counter Point" department, there were dueling posts about how big a deal it is for Ra...

Infrastructure Frontiers 47:42

AI News for September 21st, 2026: Pacing the frontier, Bryan Cantrill on Fear, TypeSafe launches Jev

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by Swamp Club new hire, engineer, philosopher, and man of the world - Zach Hamm. In this episode: * OpenAI's agents attacked RubyGems * Dario Amodei wants to pace the frontier * Bryan Cantrill...

Hackaday Podcast 1:10:08

Ep 387: Superhuman Clocks, CAN in USB-C, and the Joys of Bare Metal

This week, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start the episode off by discussing the latest CircuitPython developments before covering some impressive reverse engineering efforts, the benefits of modeling your projects in 3D, and some of the most incredible timepieces that have ever graced the pages of Hac...

Embedded 1:13:00

534: I Think We'll Add a Head

Aaed Musa joins us to talk about building robot dogs, custom actuators, and his YouTube channel. He shares how he moved from 3D-printing servo robots in his parents' garage to designing capstan drives, and how he uses reinforcement learning to train quadrupedal walking gaits. We also talk about his senior design projec...

Oxide and Friends 1:23:50

For Want of a Resistor

When the supply chain crunch catches up with you, sometimes a tiny resistor the size of a fleck of pepper is the difference between a world-class computer and... e-waste. Members of the Oxide operations and electrical engineering teams join Bryan and Adam to discuss how close we came to stopping production, for want of...

Infrastructure Frontiers 43:40

AI News for September 14th, 2026: OpenAI does math, Miro gets bought, Jacob Coxon quits Anthropic

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by DevOps engineer and downtempo DJ Don O'Neill.In this episode:OpenAI claims a Millennium Prize problem, but not without controversyTailwind joins Shopify Apple unveils the iPhone Duo Anthropi...

Hackaday Podcast 46:36

Ep 386: Doomscroll Tamagotchis, Clavichords, and Vibrotrucks

In this specially-numbered podcast episode that lines up quite nicely with our Retrocomputing Challenge, Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met over surprisingly low-latency and loud beverages to bring you the best of the previous week's hacks. But first, the news. German company Isar Aerospace can now claim that they'...

Oxide and Friends 1:24:48

Emulating Oxide: How Faux Can You Go?

We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording.How do you test configurations you haven't built yet? Steve, Andrew, and Rain join Bryan and Adam to talk about the transformative power of the Oxide emulation environment, VOXEL, and how it has accel...

Infrastructure Frontiers 48:44

September 8th, 2026

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by Swamp co-founder and platform engineering wizard John Watson.OpenAI ends access through Cursor due to the SpaceX acquisitionDebian adopts the most sensible AI policy possibleOpenClaw release...

Hackaday Podcast 1:08:49

Ep 385: 3D Printers with Lasers, Wicked RAM Prices, and Reverse Polish Notation

As the calendar turns a leaf into September, Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for our weekly look at all things Hackaday. In the news, our retrocomputing competition is well under way, but there's plenty of time to get an entry in if you've got a cool old-style project to show us. And then Elliot's been chasing...

Fork Around and Find Out 1:29:57

Integrating with Kubernetes with Matthew Sanabria

Come find Justin in-person and get FAFOFM stickers!Devopsdays - Portland, OR - September 8-10. Get 20% off tickets with FAFOFMEdgecase - Gooiland Hilversum, NL - September 24Taloscon - Amsterdam, NL - October 15-16KCD UK - Edinburgh - October 19Kubecon NA - Salt Lake City, UT - November 9-12Have an opening? HIRE AUTUMN...

Embedded 59:00

533: The Garage Is Open

Author Susan Lammers joins the show to discuss the 40th anniversary edition of her classic book, Programmers at Work. We discuss what it was like to interview young and pioneering software developers like Toru Iwatani, C. Wayne Ratliff, and Michael Hawley and how the personal computer revolution was built by individual...

Oxide and Friends 1:01:39

AI Detection with Max Spero

More and more, people are relying on AI to do their writing for them. Is this the new normal, or the intellectual equivalent of claiming take-out is your own home cooking? Max Spero, founder and CEO of Pangram, joined Bryan and Adam to discuss how they distinguish AI and human authorship.In addition to Bryan Cantrill a...

Infrastructure Frontiers 42:55

August 31st, 2026

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by amazing infrastructure engineer Jason Powell. In this episode: * Semianalysis says OpenAI's Jalapeno chip is industry leading * DuckLabs joins AWS, DuckDB remains in an open foundation * Z.a...

Hackaday Podcast 1:06:30

Ep 384: OCR MOD Records, Magical PCBs, and the Gravity of Space Stations

What did Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams read in Hackaday last week? Probably everything, but you can tune in and hear about their favorites on this week's podcast. They heard from lots of listeners this week, and also saw DIY projects running from a 3D-printed Stirling engine, to clogs, to LEDs. There...

Oxide and Friends 1:16:08

The Return to the Chamber of Mysteries

Oxide returns to the chamber... of EMC compliance to earn FCC approval to sell our next generation rack. Did it go smoothly? If it had, would there be a podcast episode? Oxide teammates Robert, Dan, and Stu join Bryan and Adam to discuss the trials and triumph!In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers...