From the Bucket

From the Bucket

Kealy Smith

English Technology Explicit
Episodes 5
Avg. Duration 29m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (1)
Since Feb 2026
Latest Episode Mar 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
Consistency
80%
Hosting
anchor.fm

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About This Podcast

From the Bucket is a podcast about industrial control systems as they actually exist in the field. Not how they look in CAD. Not how they were sold. But how they behave at 3 a.m. when production is down and someone needs answers. Hosted by controls engineer Kealy Smith, each episode explores real projects, real mistakes, and the long-term consequences of engineering decisions. From early career chaos and endless travel to burnout, leadership, and eventually starting a company, this podcast follows the full arc of a career spent making machines work in the real world.

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Recent Episodes

S1E5 Ninety-Nine Percent

Mar 16, 2026 30m

An experimental filler pushing 210 cartons per minute created one unexpected challenge: merging three lanes of cartons into a single line without collisions.What looked like a simple control problem…

S1E4 Ratchet Straps and Good Intentions

Mar 02, 2026 32m

Not every successful project looks good while it’s happening.In this episode, I tell the story of a large gantry-based X-ray inspection system that started in frustration and ended in success. The…

S1E3 Travel, Responsibility, and Becoming “The Guy”

Feb 16, 2026 29m

Early career travel and responsibility often arrive together in controls engineering. In this episode, I talk about what “paying your dues” actually looked like for me, living on site, owning…

S1E2 We’ve Built This Before

Feb 16, 2026 27m

Early in my career, I was handed my first real production line and told not to worry, the company had built it before. What I wasn’t given was the code, the standards, or a real starting point.In…

S1E1 The Code That Wouldn’t Go Away

Feb 07, 2026 26m

In this first episode of From the Bucket, I tell the story of my very first controls project.It was a barcode verification system that worked exactly the way it was designed. We deployed it,…

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From the Bucket has published 5 episodes since February 2026, covering topics in Technology.

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From the Bucket is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 29m.

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