Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast

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037 - 2020 Survey Results

Jen and Alvaro chat about the survey and the future of the show!

04 Aug 2020

Jen and Alvaro summarize the annual survey results and chat about the future of the show. Congratulations to Austin from Australia for winning the Analog Discovery 2!

We’ve started a Patreon ! If you’d like to donate to support the show, but don’t care for Patreon, you can also use PayPal to send funds to  show@unnamedre.com.

Here are some of the survey results:

  1. In your day to day life you are a:
    • Top results:
      1. Software Engineer
      2. Hardware Engineer
      3. Security Engineer
      4. Firmware Engineer
    • Other interesting ones:
      1. Carpenter
      2. Doctor
      3. Students/educators
    • Most people do listen a lot. Some several per day and some multiple per week 60%
  2. Who else are you listening to:
  3. Listening while:
    • 60% during zoning out: commute/chores
    • 20% during desk work or exercise
  4. Listening via:
    • Apple, overcast, PocketCasts, RSS were main responses.
  5. Podcast apps used
    • Apple, overcast, PocketCasts, RSS were main responses.
  6. When do you listen to new shows?
    • ⅕ only when interested, otherwise pretty quickly listen to new show.
  7. How to find us?
    • Social media 44 or 30%
    • Amp hour/embedded total of 25%
    • Suggested by web or other means  like other pods 63%
    • In person 2 people
  8. What have been your favorite episode types?
    • Guest episodes 3:2 guests to just cohost
    • Just Jen and Alvaro
    • Conferences 1:3 confs to guests
  9. Fave episodes
  10. Frequency
    • 51% Too Infrequent
    • 42% Just right
    • You want more but not at the expense of content.
  11. You like the interviews for
    • Casual conversions with good questions to help understand new concepts and tools.
  12. After listening to an episode
    • You learned some new stuff and  are ready to try out a new project. All around 95% of the audience fell into these categories.
  13. Parts you like overall:
    • Knowledgeable guests and hosts (whew…)
    • Ok but could find more topics.
  14. Show notes and website:
    • You use the show notes!! 80+% use them in some capacity.
    • Hardly anyone used the website but only for show notes (31%)
  15. Things to change
    • We have a bimodal audience for beginner versus depth. It’s great but challenging.
    • We can tag better to help meet your needs.
    • Alter music gain.
    • Giggling will probably continue. Sorry.
  16. Things to keep
    • You like us! Yay!
  17. Topics:
    • Soooo many topics and people.
  18. You want: stickers and tees

The intro song is Happiest Robot and the outro is Digital Zen , both by TeknoAxe .

We’ve been using Zencastr to record the show.

Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show ,  or email us at show@unnamedre.com .

Music by TeknoAxe ( http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe )

036 - ADDVulcan - Hack-a-sat Part 1

An interview with Amie DD and Will C

20 Jul 2020

In today’s show, we chat with Amie DD and Will C about the Hack-a-sat challenge and team ADDVulcan .

For details on the PSA by Rachel Tobac and WISP head over to https://www.wisporg.com and read about #ShareTheMicInCyber . You can donate to the campaign here .

Our listener survey is still open. If you haven't already, please check it out!

Here are links to some of the topics covered in the episode:

You can find out more about Amie at https://amiedd.com and you can call Will anytime at (617) 440-8667.

Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show ,  or email us at show@unnamedre.com .

Music by TeknoAxe ( http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe )

035 - Giving it all away (Listener Survery)

04 Jul 2020

As we close on the start of our 4th year, we want to check in with you, the audience to find out more about who you are, how we are are doing and what would make the podcast better.

So please take a moment to take our 5 minute survey. If you opt to give us your email address you will be entered for a chance to win a Analog Discovery 2 .

034 - Mechanical RE

An Interview with Aaron Moncur and Brandon Graham from Pipeline Design & Engineering

23 Jun 2020

Aaron Moncur and Brandon Graham from Pipeline Design & Engineering ( https://testfixturedesign.com/ and https://designtheproduct.com/ ) joined us to talk about mechanical reverse engineering.

You can also check out their Being an Engineer Podcast .

They might not have mentioned this during the show, but they have a bunch of great videos on their YouTube channel (including some on reverse engineering!)

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show ,  or email us at show@unnamedre.com .

Music by TeknoAxe ( http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe )

033 - All Over the Place

Pandemic updates from Jen and Alvaro

27 Apr 2020

Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show ,  or email us at show@unnamedre.com .

Music by TeknoAxe ( http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe )