The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Chris and Dave discuss the woes of designing in cabling and how to avoid the situation altogether. Also CAD programs, ordering out of magazines, “new” silicon valley, even more mergers…and more!

Michael of Programming Electronics Academy and Dan of Rheingold Heavy join Chris to talk about getting started in electronics. It’s mind over matter and consistently working towards a goal, people!

Chris and Dave talk about the Superconference, creating a good environment post-conference and understanding where people went wrong.

Dave and Chris attempt their first call in show with listeners asking questions about electronics “live” on the air. Topics include i2c, ethics, high voltage and through hole parts.

This week we discuss the difficulties involved in running workspaces, how to get through choosing switching converters, online controversies and more!

Luke Beno of Analog.io clears up some misconceptions from the last show about the layers of IoT. He also talks about analog.io, a charting and data collection site for mapping out sensor data from a variety of sources.

Amazon getting into the IoT space prompts Dave to call the game for everyone else. Also chip mergers, die shrinks, end of life parts, conferences and more!

Dafydd Roche of TI and ExpatAudio talks about how to develop audio chips, learning pick and place to understand customer woes and the deeply held beliefs of audiophiles/phools.

This week Dave and Chris talk about workspaces and the rapidly shrinking open desktop. Also phones, chip company mergers, open source licenses, online EE education, movies and more!

Luke Iseman, the head of hardware at yCombinator, talks about the challenges of getting a hardware product out the door, especially one people want.

Chris and Dave talk about fear surrounding unknown projects (as in Ahmed’s case), the funding behind new hardware projects (as in the case of the Bolt diagram) and attending technology conferences (both old and new).

Ron from Hash Define Electronics joins Chris to discuss gas metering, flow sensors, embedded applications, intrinsically safe standards, electronics in the UK and more!

Michael Ossmann returns to The Amp Hour to discuss a summer of security conferences and the newest things in the hardware hacking world.

This week we discuss the implications of work culture at engineering companies. Also FPGAs, bootstrapping companies, acquisitions, the falloff of product quality and more!

Fran Blanche joins Dave and Chris to talk about audio engineering, the future of AI, vintage technology, space electronics, NOT replacing analog chips and much more!

This week is all about how to stand out, either for a job interview or by finding a part that no one else has yet heard about. Also conference bagdges, security, nerd movies, USB3.0 and more!

This week we discuss the implications of designing lots of electronics, how to sell your projects, automated installation of platforms, explaining electronics without math and utilizing microcontrollers everywhere.

Ariel of Cartesian Co talks about creating super quick turn PCBs using a 2 part silver ink, using old inkjet printer cartridges. Print on more than fiberglass too!

Chris and Dave discuss low end components upsetting markets, Kickstarter funding, production environments, Cuk converters and more!

Bertrand and Gerald of Audeme tell us about speech recognition without the aid of cloud processing and without the requirement of audio training. A private, language model based platform for controlling projects.

Fabienne (@fbz) of KnitYak tells us about hardware hacking, creating hardware conferences and making custom, high quality, mathematically defined textiles.

Chris and Elecia White of the Embedded Podcast join Chris and Dave to discuss flipping a bit on show count and new things happening in the industry.

Our 255th show! Chris recently returned from tours of space companies. Dave is working with manufacturing to get his new device made.

Andreas Olofsson joins us to talk about massively parallel computing using a $99 development platform. We talk FPGAs, processor offloading, kickstarter, getting started, shuttle runs in fabs and more!

Chris and Dave discuss the mergers and acquisitions of the electronics industry and how it affects users. Also batteries, wifi power, SpaceX and low cost electronics.