The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Mehdi Sadaghdar from the Electroboom Youtube channel joins Dave to talk about his hobby and professional background, and how he got started in YouTubing. Also moving to Canada, the Iranian hobby movement, Maker spaces, and more!

Will it work if Chris and Dave record while Chris assembles a board? Listen to find out!

Remco Stoutjesdijk is an electronics designer for audio. He has been creating audio circuits for high end audio manufacturers for many years via his consultancy ItsOnlyAudio.com. He joins Chris to talk about everything from DSP to streaming, chip design to tubes.

This week, Dave and Chris discuss troubleshooting, both in the abstract and in the literal. Dave has been troubleshooting his solar panel, and Chris has been building up new 3D printing metholodologies. Also semiconductor manufacturing, workshops, project management, and more!

This week Chris and Dave discuss reflow in the lab, the passing of Sir Clive Sinclair, the importance of cost-down innovations, test equipment craziness, and more!

Orkhan Amiraslanov of The Things Industries joins Chris to talk about creating hardware for a LoRaWAN network, including working with different microcontrollers and building a sensor platform that will handle many users’ needs.

Phillip Johnston of Embedded Artistry joins Chris to talk about building better firmware for hardware devices. This includes high level topics like setting up Continuous Integration pipelines and developing in-situ testing.

Dave and Chris celebrate their 555th show by doing a live Q&A recording

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Dave and Chris discuss the terror of getting a product change notification and hoping it’s not something drastic (like an end of life notice). Also test equipment, the M.2 standard, layout, new wifi chips, podcasts, and more!

Shahriar Shahramian from The Signal Path joins Dave to talk debunking theories and how to teach critcal thinking

Colin O’Flynn joins Chris to talk about the state of the security industry, and to discuss his recent and upcoming product (Chip Shouter, Chip Whisperer Husky) and book releases (The Hardware Hacking Handbook).

Dave and Chris discuss chip shortages, USB, job seeking tips, meetups, bluetooth waste, electronics fundamentals, moving labs, and more!

Zack Freedman is a prototyping engineer turned YouTuber who makes bombastic videos about 3D printed creations and getting projects across the finish line. He joins Chris to talk about his past hardware designs and what he will be building next.

Shrouk El-Attar is an electronics designer, refugee, belly dancer, activist and podcaster. She joins Chris to talk about creating electronics for interesting problem solving, including FemTech products, robots and art.

This week Chris and Dave discuss how to keep electronics dry by properly designing an enclosure. Also solar, weather events, patent trolls, outfitting labs, and more!

Michael Gielda of Antmicro returns to discuss open source methodology and the wide variety of projects they develop that feed back into the electronics ecosystem, including FPGA, AI, chip design and firmware projects.

This week Chris and Dave discuss the amazing amount of interdependencies in modern web software and how that differs from hardware processes. Also takeover bids for CAD tools, hardware continuous integration, old display drivers, production systems, machine learning, and more!

This week Chris and Dave discuss data retention, manufacturing data generation, moving labs (and homes), and the joys of real estate.

Pete Staples of Blue Clover Devices joins Chris to talk about manufacturing and how to automate and standardize device programming and testing. Blue Clover uses their experience manufacturing in China to develop a general purpose production test tool

Dave and Chris discuss part library strategies, repairing equipment, electric vehicles, corporate buyouts, IoT teardowns, and more!

Jan Rychter, creator of PartsBox, talks with Chris about how to manage a personal library of components. This can help to save money, run a small manufacturing business, keep track of parts, reduce waste, and more!

Chris returns from paternity leave to more mayhem in the semiconductor supply chain. Dave jokingly doesn’t believe that it’s happening when he can’t find parts out on a distributor website.

Dave talks with Fran Blanche about, well, everything including her theory on the space time continuum!

Dave talks with the king of trashy youtube channels, Big Clive!