Engineering talk with the bench still visible.
Embedded sits at the bench where embedded systems meet career decisions, odd devices, conference talk, and engineering judgment. Its conversations move from RTOSs and security to smart toilets, internet infrastructure, management books, and Toy Story technology jokes.
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Embedded is a conversation show about engineering near the boundary between software, hardware, products, and people. It is not just component talk. The excerpts move from embedded security workshops and RTOSs to smart toilets, subsea cables, management books, safe cracking, circuit design, and computer vision on microcontrollers. The show’s center of gravity is practical technical judgment. What has to be protected? What can actually be measured in the field? What changes when an electrical engineer’s job spans PCB work, analog design, RF systems, medical devices, and high-speed computing hardware? Those questions sit beside looser moments: Toy Story technology jokes, coffee-break reading habits, lightning round answers, and closing quotes. The texture matters. Embedded lets engineers talk like engineers, with enough unfinished edges that the conversation still feels like people thinking in real time. Guests describe their work in concrete terms, from writing articles to building AI networks, developing smart toilet tests, and deploying computer vision on Cortex and IMX-RT processors. The show also makes room for the social side of technical work. Management, mentorship, personal responsibility in code, field testing privacy, conference conversations, and user suspicion around sensors all show up as part of engineering rather than as side topics. Its humor is dry and occasionally bathroom-adjacent, but the editorial value is in the specificity. A listener gets a tour of how devices, infrastructure, and teams behave after the simple version of the problem has disappeared. Episodes can be guest-led or driven by the regular conversation, and the pacing allows a technical tangent to become the point. Embedded suits people who enjoy acronyms, hardware constraints, and informal technical storytelling in the same sitting.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants technical conversation about embedded systems, hardware-adjacent software, security, devices, and engineering careers without a lecture-hall polish. It also fits people who enjoy practical constraints more than abstract futurism.
What sets it apart: Embedded stands out by letting highly specific engineering work stay conversational: smart toilets, internet infrastructure, safe cracking, RTOS teaching, and microcontroller vision all share the same table. The show’s edge is its mix of real technical vocabulary, dry humor, and attention to how systems behave outside the ideal design case.
I am Elecia White alongside Christopher White. We're here to chat about the interests, careers, and lives of engineers, artists, educators and makers. Our diverse guest list includes names you may have heard and engineers working quietly in the trenches. Either way, they are knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and inspiring. We'd love to share our enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM).
Shark-bitten cables meet smart toilets, and your engineering rabbit holes finally have company.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded hardware-security discussion about side-channel effort, physical access, and realistic threat models.
Embedded treats hardware security as a matter of proportion: what deserves protection, what level of defense is realistic, and how much work an attacker would have to put in. Nathan Jones, an educator, embedded systems engineer, and 15-year U.S.
A loose technology conversation moves from LeapFrog and software responsibility to a gently Pooh-shaped finish.
Technology sits here as a source of worry, obligation, and dry comedy. Alessia White and Christopher White begin with Toy Story 5's thinly disguised frog-like educational toy villain, then use Christopher's LeapFrog work around 2000 as a bridge into software development, what…
A smart-toilet episode about sensors, privacy, plumbing, and the human behavior that can undo a design.
Embedded looks at smart toilets and health-monitoring devices as a design challenge, not just a sensor problem: how to read human waste while still respecting the people using the bathroom.
A grounded tour of internet infrastructure, where subsea cables, signal amplifiers, and sharks all sit in the same chain.
Kenneth Finnegan turns the internet from a vague abstraction into something physical, fragile, and heavily maintained. The episode follows his path through solar-cell testing, semiconductor equipment, ISP support, AI networking at NVIDIA, and the strands of glass that carry…
A candid, practical discussion of the uneasy move from engineering into management.
Embedded uses a loose conversation about AI, management, and conferences to frame a practical question: what changes when engineers become managers.
Star Wars minutiae, treated like headline news.
Fast jokes, big franchises, zero reverence.
Fast banter for serious Star Wars fans.
Star Wars, comics, and creator-room candor.
Old scares, fresh horror conversations.
Film talk with a packed archive.
Alicia and Christopher White interview Nathan Jones about teaching embedded systems, RTOS, and mental health, with a tip on taking daily walks.
Alessia and Christopher discuss the Toy Story 5 trailer, focusing on the Leapfrog-like educational toy as the villain, with personal anecdotes about Leapfrog.
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Kenneth Finnegan discusses his career journey from mechanical engineering to building critical internet infrastructure and his work at NVIDIA.
A discussion about various interesting facts related to teeth and dental health.
On Embedded, Mark Omo and James Rowley describe safe-lock vulnerabilities they presented at DEF CON.
At Australia's Anglo-Australian Telescope, James Cameron says staff work through two or three faults per day.
Embedded hosts Alicia White and Chris White review listener survey results with embedded systems engineer Chris Sveck and educator Nathan Jones.
An interview with Jerry Toomey, author of 'Applied Embedded Electronics', discussing his career in electrical engineering and changes in the field over 40 years.
Kwabena Ajiman discusses the evolution of computer vision on microcontrollers and future performance improvements.
An interview with artist and community advocate Lee Wilkins about art, open source hardware, and cyborgs.
The hosts discuss their personal feelings and promote an upcoming conference.