The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)

The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Science EN ↓ 752 episodes

A weekly podcast about the electronics industry. Occasional guests. Lots of laughs.

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Author

The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)

Category

Science

Podcast website

theamphour.com

Latest episode

Oct 7, 2026

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Episodes

An Interview with Richard Ginus 22.01.2018

Richard Ginus of TWTG joins Chris to explain how LoRaWAN (and LoRa generally) works and why it’s important to low power sensor networks.

An Interview with Tim "Mithro" Ansell 15.01.2018

Tim “Mithro” Ansell joins Chris to talk about a range of hardware project which include a tiny USB key, a powerful HDMI capture/buffer and upcoming FPGA training

An Interview with Claire (née 'Clifford') Wolf 08.01.2018

The architect and creator of the first open source toolchain for FPGAs, Claire Wolf talks to Chris about logic synthesis, reverse engineering bit streams, formal verification and why the RISC V processor matters.

Pedantic or Andrantic 03.01.2018

Chris (Gammell) joins Chris (White) and Elecia (White) of Embedded.fm for a holiday crossover episode. We talk about new toys, books, learning code and much more!

Year End, 2017 18.12.2017

Dave and Chris discuss some of the stuff that’s happened over the past week and year and talk about what’s up in 2018.

An Interview With Joe Bamberg 11.12.2017

Joe Bamberg joins Chris to talk about monitoring power usage via power monitoring chips (while at ADI) and larger signal processing techniques (now at Sense).

Alternate Info Sources 04.12.2017

Chris and Dave discuss where to get info these days. The info they had this week included the impending kickstarter, CAD software, battery technologies, FreeRTOS, competitions and more!

An Interview with Jason Huggins 27.11.2017

Chris talks to Jason Huggins about robotics, art, holistic product design, taking on small amounts of funding and the benefits of running companies that facilitate testing.

The EEVblog Sparkgap Generator 20.11.2017

Dave and Chris recap the weekend hacker conference, discuss product considerations and market fit, peek inside diodes, try new protocols and avoid the invasion of IoT white goods.

Not Reely An Issue 13.11.2017

Dave and Chris discuss sourcing issues, conferences, cracked capacitors, cheap microcontrollers, high power LEDs, startups and more!

Loopback 06.11.2017

After a year’s worth of shows (if you listen to one episode per day), we decided to do a replay of episode 1 of The Amp Hour

Wait, why is Jeff glowing? 30.10.2017

Jeff Keyzer (@mightyohm) joins Chris to tell him about his return to self employment after 5 years at Valve and his field trip to early (and large!) nuclear reactors.

The Endless Y2K 23.10.2017

Chris and Dave discuss small scale production, conference badges, CAD programs, WiFi vulnerability, self terminating devices and much more!

An interview with Alvaro and Jen from the URE Podcast 15.10.2017

Alvaro and Jen from the new Unnamed Reverse Engineering podcast stop by to talk about designing Consumer Electronics and their quest to learn reverse engineering to use at work and at home.

Secret Squirrel 02.10.2017

Dave and Chris chat about small scale computing, things learned about hardware, DOS programs, working weekends, developing for non-consumer markets and much more!

An Interview with Ken Shirriff 25.09.2017

Ken Shirriff joins Chris and Dave to talk about vintage computer rebuilds, peering at 1970s silicon on die and using reverse engineering to figure things out.

A Total 360 18.09.2017

Dave and Chris celebrate their 360th episode by streaming video and taking audience questions live during taping. Watch on YouTube for some small extras.

An Interview with Jeroen Domburg (Sprite_tm) 11.09.2017

Jeroen Domburg (Sprite_tm) joins Chris and Dave to talk about how the ESP8266 and ESP32 are shaking up the world of connected projects and products online.

Mergers and People Acquisitions 05.09.2017

Chris announces he is changing jobs, Dave talks about threatened legal action from a shell company and we discuss a range of new mergers in the electronics industry.

An Interview with Rick Altherr 29.08.2017

Rick Altherr is a firmware and software designer who works on server technologies; his work on the Open Compute project has produced open source designs for hyper-scale server installations.

An Interview with Piotr Esden-Tempski 21.08.2017

Piotr Esden-Tempski from 1 bit squared joins Chris to talk autopilots, debugging code, prototyping hardware, JTAG chains and much more!

The Internet of Septage (with Akiba) 14.08.2017

Akiba from Freaklabs returns to give an update on industrial internet projects, talk about reorganizing product lines, discuss building test stands and commiserate on creating a business that suits your lifestyle.

A Meeting Of The Davids 06.08.2017

This week David and Dave chat about the upcoming EEVblog multimeter and news from the world of electronics

IoT Degree 25.07.2017

Chris and Dave discuss whether an IoT specific degree program makes sense. Also sad robots, crazy businesses, desoldering parts, low cost test equipment…and more!

Conning with Michael Ossmann 18.07.2017

Michael Ossmann returns to talk about the HackRF, security conferences, working with the spectrum, how GPS works, giving software interfaces to the world and lots more.

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