In this episode of the Hardware Podcast, David Cranor and I talk with Star Simpson, a designer, engineer, and manufacturer who works on every aspect of hardware. She’s a great example of a full-stack hardware creator, capable of moving between electrical engineering, software engineering, and design.

How can sound be used to both generate data and express data? In this episode of the Hardware podcast, we talk with Cameron Turner, co-founder and principal at The Data Guild. Turner is the author of the new O’Reilly report “Finding Profit in Your Organization’s Data: Examples and Best Practices.”

What happens when a hobbyist technology goes commercial? In this episode of the Hardware Podcast, Chris Anderson, founder and CEO of 3D Robotics, talks about his company’s journey from “a DIY company to a consumer electronics company to an enterprise software company.”

On this week’s Hardware Podcast, we talk seed funding with Katherine Hague, founder and CEO of Female Funders, and previously co-founder of ShopLocket, which she sold to PCH International in 2014.

Hague is an authority on seed financing and has experienced the process from both sides, and she’s both writing an O’Reilly book, Funded: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Your First Round and leading an online seminar on seed funding on June 8, 2016.

The long-awaited Raspberry Pi 3 was released last week, so David Cranor and I present an episode of the Hardware Podcast on the contentious question of whether the Raspberry Pi is a Serious Computer for Serious People, or not.

This will be a breakout year for JavaScript on embedded systems. Our guest on the Hardware Podcast this week is Peter Hoddie, who founded Kinoma, which makes software and hardware for building JavaScript-powered prototypes. Previously he was one of the original developers of QuickTime at Apple.

In this new episode of the Hardware Podcast, David Cranor and I talk with Rob Coneybeer, managing director and co-founder of Shasta Ventures, one of the critical first investors in hardware startups including Nest, Fetch Robotics, and Turo (formerly RelayRides).

In this new episode of the Hardware Podcast, David Cranor and I talk with data scientist Rachel Kalmar, formerly with Misfit Wearables and the founder and organizer of the Sensored Meetup in San Francisco. She shares insights from her work at the intersection of data, hardware, and health care.

In this episode of the Hardware Podcast, David Cranor and I talk with Sanjit Biswas, founder and CEO of the industrial sensor company Samsara, about the industrial sensor market, sensor design, and bringing ancient industrial control systems into the modern world.

David Cranor and I have devoted this episode of the Hardware Podcast to a recap of the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show. It’s probably the last recap you’ll hear, since the show happened four weeks ago, but that just means it’s had more time to marinate. Signs of the new hardware movement were everywhere this year in the innovative new products as well as the cloud of fast-follower devices that surrounded each successful piece of hardware.