Best SWARM Engineering Podcasts (2025)

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512: What if I Didn’t Stop? 1:05:30

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Katherine “Smalls” Connell spoke with us about making thin and flexible circuits, making stretchable electronics, and running a successful Kickstarter. Katherine’s Kickstarter: Sprite Lights LED Body Art (light-up tattoo). Katherine shares her makes, describing her build process for companion robots and other projects. You can find her as The Small…

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512: What if I Didn’t Stop? 1:05:29

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Katherine “Smalls” Connell spoke with us about making thin and flexible circuits, making stretchable electronics, and running a successful Kickstarter. Katherine’s Kickstarter: Sprite Lights LED Body Art (light-up tattoo). Katherine shares her makes, describing her build process for companion robots and other projects. You can find her as The Small…

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S6E8:Youngsoo Choi: Building Reliable Foundation Models 30:46

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Foundation models-- LLMs or LLM-like tools-- are a compelling idea for advancing scientific discovery and democratizing computational science. But there's a big gap between these lofty ideas and the trustworthiness of current models. Youngsoo Choi of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and his colleagues are thinking about to how to close this c…

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Emerging Technologies Episode 6: Digital Twins 33:09

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Welcome to Carry the Two, the podcast about how math and statistics impact the world around us from the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats is helping scientists, engineers, and industry develop new and emerging technologies. This episode is all about…

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511: Forty Trillion Divides 1:22:55

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Chris and Elecia talk about the show overflowing to another bit, fight over vim vs nano, consider awards, discuss writing (and self-motivation), consider linear algebra on AI cores, encourage remote device quality assurance, describe design documentation, review timer multipliers, and consider changing chip vendors. A list of all Embedded Episodes …

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511: Forty Trillion Divides 1:22:56

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Chris and Elecia talk about the show overflowing to another bit, fight over vim vs nano, consider awards, discuss writing (and self-motivation), consider linear algebra on AI cores, encourage remote device quality assurance, describe design documentation, review timer multipliers, and consider changing chip vendors. A list of all Embedded Episodes …

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Emerging Technologies Episode 5: Computation Imaging 46:44

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Welcome to Carry the Two, the podcast about how math and statistics impact the world around us from the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats is helping scientists, engineers, and industry develop new and emerging technologies. This episode is all about…

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510: The Secret Chip 1:04:46

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Christina Cyr spoke with us about building cell phones, entrepreneurship, social purpose corporations, awards, lithium recycling, and her interesting career path. We talked about Christina’s Cyrcle Phone, the related kit from dTOOR, and her CES Innovation Award. We also mentioned Fairphone in the section about social purpose corporation. There is a…

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Emerging Technologies Episode 4: Materials Science 47:34

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Welcome to Carry the Two, the podcast about how math and statistics impact the world around us from the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats is helping scientists, engineers, and industry develop new and emerging technologies. Our first episode is all …

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S6E7: Steven Wilson: Craving Chemical Efficiency 25:55

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Computational scientists can take on the role of utility players in research, and Steven Wilson is one example. At Arizona State University he's built instruments, carried out experiments and dove deep into computational work. As a postdoc, he's working on a new challenge: building a quantum chemistry startup company. In this episode, he discusses …

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509: Swarmed by Engineers 1:13:46

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Steve Hinch wrote a book about engineering, innovation, and business. He shares decades of wisdom gleaned from his career at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent as an engineer, manager, marketing director, and general manager. Steve’s book is Winning through Innovation: Lessons from the Front Lines of Business. While mostly retired, Steve is an executive c…

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Emerging Technologies Episode 3: Fusion Energy 36:28

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Welcome to Carry the Two, the podcast about how math and statistics impact the world around us from the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats is helping scientists, engineers, and industry develop new and emerging technologies. Our third episode is all …

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508: Descartes' Demon 1:22:32

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William Griffin spoke to us about hardware-in-the-loop testing, simulation, terminology, learning complex topics, and books. We don’t usually expand upon the show title but Wikipedia has a rabbit hole called Evil demon so there you go. Books mentioned: Make: Electronic Music from Scratch: A Beginner's Guide to Homegrown Audio Gizmos CMOS Cookbook H…

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Emerging Technologies Episode 2: Computation Medicine 34:43

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Welcome to Carry the Two, the podcast about how math and statistics impact the world around us from the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats is helping scientists, engineers, and industry develop new and emerging technologies. Our first episode is all …

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S6E6 [REPOST]: Joe Insley Transforms Big Data into Stunning Images 30:21

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While we take a short summer break, we’re posting one of our favorite past episodes and a great follow-up to our last episode with Amanda Randles of Duke University. In 2023, we talked with Joe Insley of Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and Northern Illinois University about data visualization, from the practical process of helping researchers…

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507: Turn Our Data Into Predators 1:14:05

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Chris and Elecia chat about books, courses, alternate podcasts, electronics, statistics, kidnapping Roo, and journaling failures. The Embedded Patreon book club is reading Data-Driven Science and Engineering: Machine Learning, Dynamical Systems, and Control by Steven L. Brunton, J. Nathan Kutz. PDF book and links to lectures are at databookuw.com. …

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Emerging Technologies Episode 1: Quantum Information Science 43:40

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Welcome to Carry the Two, the podcast about how math and statistics impact the world around us from the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats is helping scientists, engineers, and industry develop new and emerging technologies. Our first episode is all …

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506: How Do I Fit a Whale Into an Apartment Building? 1:02:04

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Dmitry Grinberg joined us to talk about running Linux on small microprocessors (physically small and/or 4-bit). Dmitry does this by emulating a MIPS processor. Boot times vary between minutes and days, depending on the processor. Dmitry’s projects are on his website (dmitry.gr) including: 8-pin Linux (Cortex-M0+!) Linux on an 8-bit micro? Linux/400…

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S6E5: Amanda Randles: A Check-Engine Light for the Heart 29:47

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Duke University associate professor Amanda Randles' work to simulate and understand human blood flow and its implications demonstrates how high-performance computing paired with scientific principles can help improve human health. In this conversation, she talks about how she brought together early interests in physics, coding, biomedicine and even…

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505: Potato in a Number Field 1:18:06

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We spoke with Peter Griffin about Jumperless Breadboards, no-install GUI development, Excel, and puppies. Jumperless Breadboard at CrowdSupply Colab GUI for Jumperless Breadboard Website GUI for Jumperless Breadboard Excel GUI for Jumperless Breadboard (though it has some USB DTR issues as noted in the show: Jumperless_V5_GUI (Shared).xlsx. Note Mi…

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Guru & Roma reflect 24:49

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Two of our podcast hosts, Roma Agrawal and Guru Madhavan, sit down for a conversation about the Create The Future series. Find podcast transcripts on our website. Follow @QEPrize on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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504: The Robot Was Expecting It 1:06:12

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It’s another episode with Elecia and Chris. This week they discuss people that have influenced their lives and careers, thinking about past career choices and regrets therein, identities, the Embedded Slack book club, and electronic projects. Chris is currently taking Dogbotic’s DIY Rhythm Widgets course which covers making an analog drum machine f…

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504: The Robot Was Expecting It 1:06:13

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It’s another episode with Elecia and Chris. This week they discuss people that have influenced their lives and careers, thinking about past career choices and regrets therein, identities, the Embedded Slack book club, and electronic projects. Chris is currently taking Dogbotic’s DIY Rhythm Widgets course which covers making an analog drum machine f…

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S6E4: Joel Ye: Examining Neural Data More Efficiently and Holistically 25:10

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Understanding how the brain works remains a grand scientific challenge, and it's yet another area where researchers are examining whether foundation models could help them find patterns in complex data. Joel Ye of Carnegie Mellon University talks about his work on foundation models, their potential and limitations and how others can get involved in…

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503: The Tiniest Laptops 1:03:57

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Emily Lovell spoke with us about teaching how to contribute to open source, including her own experience creating the LilyTiny as a Master’s student and researching the impact as a PhD student. The LilyTiny work was done in conjunction with Leah Buechley (Embedded episode 382). See the paper The LilyTiny: A Case Study in Expanding Access to Electro…

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503: The Tiniest Laptops 1:03:56

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Emily Lovell spoke with us about teaching how to contribute to open source, including her own experience creating the LilyTiny as a Master’s student and researching the impact as a PhD student. The LilyTiny work was done in conjunction with Leah Buechley (Embedded episode 382). See the paper The LilyTiny: A Case Study in Expanding Access to Electro…

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502: Chat, J'ai Peté! 1:08:26

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Chris and Elecia talk about Murderbot, LLMs (AI), bikes, control algorithms, and fancy math. The website with the ecology jobs is willdlabs.net from 501: inside the Armpit of Giraffe with Meredith Palmer and Akiba.. The algorithm Elecia mentioned was from Patent US7370713B1. The Control Bootcamp YouTube series is a great introduction to control sys…

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502: Chat, J'ai Peté! 1:08:27

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Chris and Elecia talk about Murderbot, LLMs (AI), bikes, control algorithms, and fancy math. The website with the ecology jobs is wildlabs.net from 501: inside the Armpit of Giraffe with Meredith Palmer and Akiba.. The algorithm Elecia mentioned was from Patent US7370713B1. The Control Bootcamp YouTube series is a great introduction to control syst…

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Cotton, Contracts, and AI: How to Fix a $Million Planning Problem 15:45

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What do you do when your supply chain spans 200 warehouses and every bale of cotton has 20+ variables to juggle? If you're relying on spreadsheets, you're already behind. In this episode, we explore how one major agribusiness partnered with SWARM Engineering to overhaul their cotton planning process. The result? AI that slashes decision-making time…

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501: Inside the Armpit of a Giraffe 1:20:45

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We spoke with ecologist Dr. Meredith Palmer and embedded engineer Akiba about lions, terror, and technology. Akiba works for FreakLabs.org on global conservation projects. We talked about their Boombox which Meredith uses to create experiments to map the landscape of fear in predator/prey relationships. While this may look like pranking animals wit…

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S6E3: Jackson Burns: Avoiding Chemical Dead Ends 26:01

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Chemists and chemical engineers have modeled molecules for decades, but artificial intelligence and foundation models offer the prospect that researchers could train models with predictive abilities in one area of chemistry that could be fine-tuned for another. Trustworthy chemistry foundation models could help streamline the experimental time and …