The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

This show is a before-and-after with Joshua Vasquez and Zach Fredin. A 2019 recording captured the beginning of their grad school journey and this 2022 recording details how grad school went and what they’re doing now.

This week Dave discusses wanting to buy a Pick and Place and Chris doesn’t try to talk him out of it. Also low cost RISC V components, Supercon happenings, more on heat pumps, books about the grid, and more!

Eric Schlaepfer and Windell Oskay, authors of “Open Circuits” (a beautiful book looking inside electronic components) join Chris to talk about the book and their other electronic projects.

Saber Kaygusuz is the CEO of PCB Arts, makers of the EdgeKit and the Vapor Phase One. He joins Chris to talk about manufacturing and design of electronics systems for prosumers and software developers.

Matt Liberty returns to The Amp Hour to talk about the upgraded Joulescope (model JS220) and the trials and tribulations it’s been to build a new device during the chip shortage.

This week Chris and Dave discuss charging batteries, outfitting a lab, heat pumps, conference badges, and more!

Kathy Joseph from the Kathy Loves Physics Youtube channel joins Dave to talk about the history of electricity and her new book The Lightning Tamers.

This week Dave and Chris discuss robots taking low end jobs, power measurement around the house, mechanical work on cases, using AI, and more!

Ray Ozzie is the founder and CEO of Blues Wireless, a cellular IoT company that makes it easier to send data to the cloud. Ray joins Chris to talk about his background in the software industry, including a role as Chief Software Architect of Microsoft.

Dave and Chris talk through custom silicon, old Tek videos, prototyping boards, electric vehicles, and more.

Chris is joined by his old friend Dave Young of Young Circuits Designs (3rd appearance). They discuss consulting, the opportunity cost of learning, coaching students, managing consulting client needs, redesigning circuits, and more.

This week Chris and Dave talk about standardized board form factors, cellular devices, logic chips for building clocks, troubleshooting magic, and more!

Uri Shaked of Wokwi.com joins Chris to talk about simulating microcontrollers and peripherals, and the challenges of making each layer of the process accurate and fast on the web.

Dave and Chris discuss designing for high explosive environments, how to reverse engineer products, and the rise of RISC V in the semiconductor space.

This is a re-broadcast of the original episode #196, where we interviewed Mike Engelhardt, the creator of LTSpice. Mike is no longer at Linear Technology, and Linear Technology is no longer a company (now part of Analog Devices), but the simulator is still awesome!

This week we discuss hardware engineers moving to software, the impacts of funding on the chip industry, long term crowdfunding campaign, and why Top Gun is awesome.

AVX Fellow and 40 year capacitor industry legend Ron Demcko joins Dave to discuss film capacitor failures and capacitor technology. This episode is best viewed in video format on the Amp Hour Youtube channel, as Ron and Dave discuss slides and photos in this video discussion for an EEVblog video on why a film capacitor failed. But we are sure you'll still find the audio podcast version very enjoya...

What’s the difference between a trade show and a conference? Chris returns from Embedded World (with COVID) and discusses with Dave, who is NOT going to start DaveCon. Also other news in the electronics space.

This week on the show, we discuss AI, new kit services, building prototypes, vintage computers, trains, and more!

Ben Jordan was a long time Altium employee and PCB and product specialist and still makes Altium tutorial videos on Youtube. He and Dave discuss their experiences in the EDA world.

Simone Giertz returns to The Amp Hour 5.5 years later to discuss all of the things that she has built, things she wants to build in the future, and how she is moving those product designs into the marketplace.

Chris and Dave discuss big electric vehicles, finding unmarked parts, test equipment, olive oil, and more!

Laura Abbott of Oxide Computer joins Chris to talk about a vulnerability she found in the firmware update mechanism on the LPC55S69, as well as other topics relating to firmware and hardware security.

This week Dave and Chris hold it together while discussing simulations, energy fields, impossible parts, and strapping open source gear to your home.

Engineer Leigh Brady joins Chris to compare and contrast working in different industries in different countries. Leigh has worked in the optics, medical, and defense spaces, including on nuclear weapons.