Touring @ImpulseLabs with the Stove Guy @sdamico and @allenpark featuring never-seen-before AI cooking features. Sam is reinventing the stove from first principles: battery-powered architecture, software-defined hardware, & OTA updates.
In this episode, we discuss:
• Why Impulse centered the stove around a battery
• How they achieved extreme power + temperature control
• Why Sam sees appliances as software-defined hardware
• How Claude and AI tools are already part of the product + how Sam uses AI
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:18 The Impulse Cooktop Demo
0:55 Zephyr Partnership + Showrooms
1:14 Magnetic Knob Interface
2:04 How Impulse Tests and QA’s Every Build
3:34 Rebuilding the Stove From First Principles
5:02 Impulse Core and OEM Partnerships
6:09 How Long It Took to Build the Product
8:07 The Japan Pizza Story That Sparked Impulse
9:22 Why Sam Left Consumer Hardware for Appliances
12:42 Why the Stove Was the Right Entry Point
14:31 Building Appliances “Like a Phone”
17:17 Will Impulse Ship a Single-Burner Version?
17:37 Cooking Begins on the AI Dev Unit
19:10 How Sam Uses AI to Build Software at Impulse
20:36 Scallops Demo: Real-Time Temperature Control
22:20 Boiling Pasta at 10,000 Watts
24:49 AI Recipes, Figma, and Multi-Burner Cooking
28:25 Butter, Pasta, and Controlled Temperature Cooking
30:21 Zephyr Launch and the Bigger Smart Home Vision
32:45 Global Expansion Plans
33:34 AI Features, OTA Updates, and What Ships This Year
35:14 Taste Test with the Judges
36:42 Where to Buy Impulse