The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
The Amp Hour is a weekly conversation about electronics and the people who design them.
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The Focus Knob Works
Dave and Chris celebrate 16 years of the show (1st episode was August 10th, 2010) by launching a brand-new static website featuring searchable transcr...
The Terahertz Frontier with Greg Charvat of Teradar
Dr Greg Charvat, CTO and co-founder of Teradar, joins Chris for a 5th appearance on The Amp Hour to talk about how terahertz frequency radar will revo...
#728 – Space Age Bluetooth with Alex Haro
Alex Haro, CEO of Hubble, joins Chris to talk about building a network of terrestrial and space (!) based Bluetooth infrastructure to track low power...
#727 – Boat Anchor Warehouse
Dave and Chris discuss a massive “boat anchor” warehouse clearance, 0201 board assembly, Texas Instruments’ stealthy datasheet updates for classic op-...
#726 – Arduino’s Invisible Touch with Massimo Banzi
Massimo Banzi is co-founder of Arduino, the worldwide project built upon easily accessible embedded hardware. He joins Chris to talk about the design,...
#725 – The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski
Michał Zalewski (lcamtuf) is a security researcher, author, electronics enthusiast, and calculator collector. He joins Chris to talk about his new boo...
#724 – All Heat, No Useful Work
Dave and Chris discuss the infrastructure and massive energy demands of AI data centers, injecting power through a programming header, Linux changes,...
#723 – BeagleBoard’s Back with Jason Kridner
Jason Kridner returns to The Amp Hour after his first appearance 15 years ago to talk about the BeagleBadge and Zepto boards that showcase new capabil...
#722 – AI Tooling with Matt Liberty and Luke Beno
Past guests Matt Liberty (Joulescope) and Luke Beno (Werewolf.us) join Chris to talk through using AI tooling for small businesses in the hardware and...
#721 – Chip Design for Fun (and Waffles) with Julia Desmazes
Julia Desmazes joins Chris to discuss designing chips for fun and getting an entire design done in 2 weeks to make a tapeout deadline. Julia built acc...
#720 – Hyper Growth and OpenClaw Interns
Dave and Chris discuss Golioth getting acquired by Canonical (makers of Ubuntu), trying out OpenClaw in the lab, changes to space plans, big new facto...
#719 – Inventing the Power MOSFET with Alex Lidow
Alex is founder and CEO of Efficient Power Conversion, a leading manufacturer of GaN MOSFET’s.
Alex is also the inventor of the original Power M...
#718 – Layout Review with Zachariah Peterson
Zachariah Peterson joins Chris to discuss doing PCB layout and creating content for engineers looking to learn more about how to build their own PCBs
#717 – Back on the road in ’26
This week we talked about upcoming travel, solid state transformers, battery testing, new small circuit boards, and a bunch more.
#716 – Electronics Manufacturing History with David Ray
David Ray joins Dave to talk about the history of electronics manufacturing and how he has built a high mix manufacturing business while regularly edu...
#715 – Shiny New Pebble with Eric Migicovsky
Founder of Pebble and CEO of CoreDevices, Eric Migicovsky, joins Chris to talk about the history of the Pebble Watch and resurrecting the hardware to...
#714 – The Measurement Blues with Martin Rowe
Martin Rowe is a long time technical editor for publications like EE World, EDN, and Test and Measurement World. He stops by The Amp Hour to talk abou...
#713 – Rubber Duck Incarnate
Dave and Chris discuss staying connected while traveling, building terminal interfaces for custom hardware, using coding tools, the Teensy and recent...
#712 – Robots Everywhere with Aaed Musa
Aaed is a YouTuber who builds a variety of robots and a mechanical engineering student at Purdue. He joins Chris to talk building robots and robotics...
#711 – Medical Electronics Education with Mark Palmeri
Dr Mark Palmeri is a professor at Duke University in the Biomedical Engineering (BME) field. He joins Chris to talk about using open tools (KiCad, ngs...
#710 – Tugging on the Nerd Heartstring
Dave and Chris are back after a long vacation absence to talk about high end events, new scopes, fast board assembly, and nerds nostalgic for the sci...
#709 – Nobel Prize Winner Dr Barry Marshall
Dr Barry Marshall won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and...
#708 – All the Connectors with Davide Andrea
Davide Andrea is the author of The Electronic Connector Book and Principal of Elithion, a company that designs Battery Management System. He joins Chr...
#707 – Welding with an HDMI Cable
This week Dave and Chris discuss test equipment, the Arduino acquisition, Zephyr, Altium pricing, private equity owning YouTube channels, audio circui...
#706 – Leading Edge Analog with Joren Vaes
Joren Vaes is a design engineer at SOFICS working on simulating and delivering analog IP blocks on leading edge nodes like the 2 nm node from TSMC. Li...
#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...