The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Clint Cole, founder and president of Digilent, joins us to talk education, electronics, manufacturing, mobile test equipment, open source (or not) and how future engineers will learn.

Fill out your monthly nerd calendar! On this episode we discuss antennas, jellybean components, datasheets, RF, DC Power Analysis, Rovers and getting fun things in the mail!

Chris and Dave celebrate their 300th episode by waffling on like usual. Robots, art projects, layout, future predictions (and how they’re wrong), crowdfunding scams and more. Bingo!

Jonathan Hirschman talks to Chris and Dave about bringing PCB assembly into the 21st century. Software, PnPs, trading standardization for convenience and more!

Chris and Dave discuss why engineers join startups, how to decide how open source a product should be, the role of modules and ego in design, sourcing decisions and more!

Jake Baker is a chip designer and educator at UNLV. He tells us all about DRAM, Flash, ReRAM, low level design and lots more silicon goodness!

Chris and Dave reunite to talk about travel (past and future), industry layoffs, connected hardware, future hardware companies and finding aliens.

Omer Kilic talks about designing redesigning power sockets to be reliable and manufacturable. Also, broader discussions about what’s wrong with IoT and where it’s all going.

Mike Harrison joins Chris while in Serbia for various conferences to talk about reverse engineering analogue mobile phones, art installations, trade shows and more!

Chris and Dave blank on generators, hear about surface wave transmission, give advice on business, hear from past guests and prescribe new product development tips.

Timothy (Tim) Lamb tells us all about the ups and downs of working on the tech behind the special effects of the movies we have all seen.

Chris and Dave discuss physical interfaces, Design For Manufacturing, former Austin chip companies, engineering based political parties, robots, transistors and lots more!

Mark Morin of Nufern joins us to speak about lasers, optics, obsolete components, books and available jobs.

Dave and Chris talk about documentation, new platforms, high speed cameras, superheroes, energy generation, travel and lots more!

This call in show included questions about education, changing careers, learning high speed design, creating PCB buttons, grounding issues and more!

Dave and Chris talk about cash flow, scopes, online dev tools, early microcontrollers, bodge wires, revision control, 3d modeling and more!

Saar Drimer of Boldport stops by to talk about the EDA industry, artistic circuit boards, Chip and Pin security, a new kit subscription service and more!

Chris and Dave discuss the effects of really bad PR. Also commerce, Chinese New Year, new education systems, assembling boards and much more!

Scott of the popular Great Scott! YouTube channel joins Chris to talk about German education, manufacturing, learning electronics and more!

Jon Ellis (@profgears), researcher and professor at the University of Rochester, talks about the rigors of being on the tenure track, doing high precision distance measurement and helping define NIST standards

Dave returns from vacation to a world with one less David Jones. Also 3D prototypes, super low cost dev boards, FIRST robotics and life goals.

Chris and Elecia White of Embedded.fm join Chris on The Amp Hour to take calls from guests. Topics include pro makers, early micros, new programming languages and needed debug tools.

Akiba and Chris ring in the new year talking about electronics education reforms, depression in technology, starting a hardware business and prototyping sensor networks.

Jeff Keyzer once again visits the show to talk about high volume manufacturing in China and creating a consumer product.

After some technical glitches, we did a not-so-live show with our callers and then continued talking about recent events.