The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
A weekly podcast about the electronics industry. Occasional guests. Lots of laughs.
Episoade Recente
53 episoade
#705 – Psst…Hey buddy, wanna buy an Octopus?
This week Dave and Chris discuss DIN rail, IAC (featuring Space Lube), begging for Moonlanders, batteries, 10x-priced connectors, Gridfinity, concrete...
#704 – Applied Embedded Electronics with Jerry Twomey
Jerry Twomey, author of Applied Embedded Electronics, joins Chris to talk about how to build more reliable hardware when there are embedded components...
#703 – Building wafer.space with Tim Ansell
Tim 'Mithro' Ansell returns to The Amp Hour to discuss his new Singapore based wafer sharing service called wafer.space. Now that Efabless is no more,...
#702 – Test Point Accupuncture
Dave and Chris discuss solar, nuclear, making new injection molds from old ones (or not), and how to probe poorly placed test points with tiny needles...
#701 – Electric Propulsion with Todd Bailey
Todd Bailey has been busy in the 11 years since he was last on the show. He has designed submarine sonar and many different pieces of space electronic...
#700 – Beware of the Overachievers
Dave and Chris record after a long break between episodes together and discuss new electronics designs they're working on, solar and battery installat...
#699 – CircuitHub, 12 Years Later with Andrew Seddon
Andrew Seddon, founder and CEO of CircuitHub, joins Chris to talk about how CircuitHub has changed over the past 12 years as a startup and how they ar...
#698 – Hardware Security with Matt Brown
Matt Brown is a hardware and IoT security researcher. He joins Chris to talk about best practices for securing hardware that talks to the internet and...
#697 – LEDs Everywhere with Tim from Mitxela
Tim from Mitxela stops by the show to discuss his extensive portfolio of projects involving, hardware (tiny LEDs), firmware (ridiculously low power pr...
#696 – It Works With Option Number 5
This week Dave and Chris discuss solar optimization, short videos, useless products, cameras, energy monitors, Bluetooth, magnets, and more!
#695 – Making The Invisible, Visible with Sam Aldhaher
Sam Aldhaher is a power engineer and 3D graphic artist, his Blender visualizations have helped many people understand how RF flows in a variety of cir...
#694 – Voltage, Vibes, and VOCs
In this episode, Dave and Chris cover environmental monitoring, trade shows, manufacturing, tariffs, new test equipment, and AI coding.
#693 – Small Scale Electronics Manufacturing with Colin O’Flynn
Colin O'Flynn returns to The Amp Hour for a 3rd time to talk about recent developments in security, FPGAs, small scale electronics manufacturing, and...
#692 – Like a steam engine in your house
In this episode Dave and Chris discuss solar installs, wacky tariffs, peak power pricing, tiny electronics, oscilloscope triggering, and more.
#691 – System Designer Lets You Try Every Part with Michael Gielda
Michael Gielda returns to the show (for a third time) to talk about the work Antmicro is doing to extend hardware, firmware, and silicon design. Their...
#690 – Clap on, clap off, lights flicker
Dave and Chris discuss bluetooth boards, what happens when batteries leak, new cellular capabilities in iPhones, AC flicker, old oscilloscopes, and mo...
#689 – A Jumperless Breadboard with Kevin Cappuccio
Kevin Cappuccio joins Chris to talk about the Jumperless Breadboard, an advanced platform for prototyping and interacting with circuits that you place...
#688 – The Tandy Train
Dave and Chris discuss the Tandy 200, test equipment cashflow, the return of the Pebble watch, GPT trying its hand at CAD, solar output...and more
#687 – The RP2350 with the Raspberry Pi Team
The RP2350 from Raspberry Pi is a dual dual-core (Cortex-M33 and Hazard 3 RISC V) microcontroller with extensive peripherals. Some of the Raspberry Pi...
#686 – A Benchtop Pick and Place with Stephen Hawes
Stephen Hawes started Opulo, a company that builds the Lumen Benchtop Pick and Place. Opulo designs open source hardware and sane software for buildin...
#685 – Data Provenance in the Home, Server, and Fab
This week Chris and Dave discuss the changes at Intel, being in control data in your home lab, bogus copyright claims for repair videos, and more!
#684 – Lee Felsenstein: The Computer Revolution & Counterculture
A full 3 hour discussion with the legendary Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1, SOL computer, VDM-1, Pennywhistle modem, and the inventor of s...
#683 – Troubleshooting is the skill
Chris and Dave discuss updated house wiring, making smart relays capable of switching power, how to design a linear supply, and using AI tools to help...
#682 – Your Mind Is The Tool
Chris and Dave discuss troubleshooting a dead short in a PCB, the slow march of time, retirements, whether 2 layers is sufficient on PCBs, and much mo...
#681 – Compact High Speed Design with Lukas Henkel
Lukas Henkel, CEO of OV Tech, joins Chris to talk about high speed design while utilizing incredibly small form factors. They discuss open source SIPs...
#680 – Catching Rockets with Musk Sticks
Chris and Dave discuss identifying boards, amazing rocket catches, recent travel to trade shows, the impacts of the floods on the supply chain, EV cha...
#679 – Satellite Design Engineering with Dan Esparon
Dan Esparon from Inovor Technologies in South Australia joins Dave to discuss all about the engineering of designing and launching satellites!
#678 – All About Antennas with Katerina Galitskaya
Katerina Galitskaya is a Senior Antenna Engineer who is currently designing base station antennas. She joins Chris to talk about simulating, visualizi...
#677 – Watt Is The Deal
This week Dave and Chris talk about Meshtastic (a meshing layer on top of LoRa), new scope specs, cellular modems, power, and a new Embedded Conferenc...
#676 – Moving House (And Lab)
Dave and Chris record together after a long hiatus because Chris spent the summer moving boxes between two houses and reorganizing his lab. Also hardw...
#675 – Changing Course with Shawn Hymel
Shawn Hymel is an engineer and content creator who recently left his developer relations job at Edge Impulse to work on developing courses full time
#674 – Turtles as a Service
Dave and Chris return to talk electronics trade shows, API tools, solar and batteries, automation, and more!
#673 – Lifelong Learning with Bitluni
Bitluni joins Chris on The Amp Hour to discuss FPGAs, ESP32 projects, custom silicon, building around memes, and continually challenging yourself to l...
#672 – Silicon Revolution with Matt Venn
Matt Venn returns to The Amp Hour to talk about the successes (and learnings) from many additional runs of TinyTapeout, a shared project service sitti...
#671 – NDA Sideshow
Dave and Chris talk about the letdown of signing an NDA and seeing "behind the curtain". Also inverters, programming tools, pricing changes at Altium,...
#670 – Engineering Careers with Circuit Break & James Lewis
Chris joins the Circuit Break podcast (Parker Dillman, Stephen Kraig) along with James Lewis to talk about engineering careers. This show will also be...
#669 – Freelance PCB Design with Petr Dvorak
Petr Dvorak is a freelance PCB designer and a prolific sharer of knowledge on LInkedIn. He joins Chris to discuss electronic microscopes, traveling to...
#668 – 50.0000 Ohms
Chris and Dave discuss controlled impedance board traces, classic hacker movies, Location APIs, CHIPS act beneficiaries, power problems in houses, and...
#667 – Long Distance with CNLohr-a
CNLohr returns to The Amp Hour to talk about LoRa and implementing a solution using harmonics coming out of a standard microcontroller's GPIO
#666 – Good Energy Citizen
This week Chris and Dave discuss EV charging, chip fabs, manufacturing, large airliners, power storage, and more!