The messy middle between "it works on my bench" and "it ships in a box." These shows cover requirements, design trade-offs, revision cycles, and the scope arguments that decide what a product actually becomes. Useful whether you own the roadmap or have to live with it.
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Making It
Three makers discuss their experiences making things, running businesses, and their personal journeys in the maker world.
The Manufacturing Executive
Joe Sullivan talks with the leaders driving midsized manufacturers forward, alongside B2B sales and marketing experts, about growth strategy, industrial marketing, and modernising the shop floor.
Hardware to Save a Planet
Host Dylan Garrett explores the physical technologies being built to fight climate change, pairing one climate challenge with one emerging hardware solution each episode.
The Next Byte Podcast
We're two engineers on a mission to make interesting technology easy to understand. In each episode, we explore tech that is going to change the world – and keep it entertaining along the way.
Thoroughly Considered
Dan Provost, Tom Gerhardt, and Myke Hurley on product design, entrepreneurship, and the ups and downs of running a small indie physical-product business.
The Builder Circle
Designed to empower hardware entrepreneurs, engineers and builders to overcome challenges, reduce risk and succeed in bringing their products to market through expert insights, practical advice, and engaging discussions on relevant topics.
NPI Sherpa
A tactical NPI survival manual for the brutal middle between a working prototype and high-volume profitability, covering DFM, production scaling, and operational resilience.
Built 2 Scale
Founders Matt Perrott and Scott Wilcox on building high-growth startups at the edge of business, tech, AI, and robotics, from bootstrapped chaos to VC-backed scale.
TRADEOFFS
A podcast about the difficult choices and compromises made during hardware product development and engineering. Each episode explores real-world trade-offs faced by product teams.
From the archive
Over the Air
Very’s podcast on IoT, connected devices, and AI — unfiltered conversations with the executives and engineers building connected hardware products.
The Hardware Entrepreneur
Balint Horvath interviews hardware founders around the world on designing, manufacturing, funding, and selling physical products.