DevTalk with Rich and Vin: Reverse Engineering

About this episode

The episode discusses the practice of reverse engineering in the engineering space, exploring both professional and personal motivations behind it.

Just about everybody in the engineering space has reverse-engineered a product at some point. It might have been for professional reasons, like seeing how a competitor is attacking a problem or simply seeing how they engineered a product. Or it could have been for personal reasons, because the product stopped working, or simply because they wanted to. Note: If you search for “Tear Down” on Embedded Computing Design, you can see the products we’ve reverse-engineered. Then there are those...

People in this episode

Hosts: Rich Nass, Vin

Topics covered

• reverse engineering
• engineering
• product analysis
• competitor analysis
• personal projects

Keywords

• reverse engineering
• engineering
• product analysis
• competitor
• Tear Down

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Embedded Computing Design

Products: Tear Down

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