The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Chris and Dave discuss the role of investment capital in electronics businesses. Also firmware revisions, beginning designing chips and the systemization of silicon.

Chris and Dave discuss the pitfalls of trying to figure out exactly what customers want vs what they say. Also, a new program to try and gather the history of the electronics industry!

Dave soldiers on despite being sick in order to tell us about this new solar power system. Also online tools charging, chip companies charging and new ways to design FPGAs.

Welcome, Laen of OSHpark.com! Now that...is artwork! OSHPark is out of Portland, OR. The original business grew out of DorkbotPDX and started in December of 2009. The tech scene is still big in "The Silicon Forest", which grew out of Tektronix. Others include Intel, Maxim Integrated, Xerox and more. The early orders went to Advanced Circuits and was only about 1 panel/month. All orders were packag...

New learning opportunities are popping up everywhere! Chris is starting a new course and Dave continues his popular whiteboard series. Also SERDES, T&M and more!

Jeri Ellsworth returns to The Amp Hour to talk about her time at Valve, the unfortunate end to her employment there and the phoenix of a project rising from the ashes! The castAR from Technical Illusions!

Chris and Dave recap Hamvention, op amp designs, Maker Faire announcements, college tuition issues and Intel’s contest winners.

Not only are t-shirts arriving, so are conferences and new applications hosted in the cloud! Plus oscilloscopes, workbenches, PCB mills…and even a Delorean.

Bob Davidson stops in to talk with Chris and Dave about building early hard drives, the computer industry, sensors, ham radio and a whole lot more!

Do you find yourself pigeonholed into a certain aspect of electronics? Have you ever moved? That, plus old magazine ads, low cost manufacturing questions & more!

Paying for help can make sense, especially for artistic and design work (like our new t-shirt!). Also: cheap hardware, new hardware and shonky hardware.

If you make design decisions based on finances, it might be time to start buying connectors. Also, listener questions about FPGAs and Op Amps,iterations, prototypes, robots, thermocouples and much more!

Is it better to run the project and be blamed or to keep your head down and focus on the details? That plus current sources, lasers, robots, manufacturing and more.

Winning Google Glass is an interesting proposition, since you still need to buy them. Cloud based tools and registration walls also provide dicey propositions.

Ryan Brown of National Instruments joins Chris to talk about FPGAs, LabView software, the Austin hardware scene, hardware startups, home projects and lots more!

Whether or not to volunteer to die on Mars is one thing; what electronics to bring with you is an entirely different (more important?) decision.

Hardware can get you places, whether you’re headed to Austin for SXSW or just sitting on a plane like a sack of potatoes. Join Dave and Chris as they talk about hardware and announce a new t-shirt giveaway!

Mike Harrison of Mike’s Electric Stuff joins Chris and Dave to talk about his work in the field of large LED installation and tearing stuff apart.

Sometimes in electronics you need to get your hands dirty. And sometimes that dirt is toxic. Chris and Dave discuss past safety situations and how companies deal with it. And lots more!

Ron Quan, author of a new book on building transistor radios, joins Chris and Dave to talk about the video industry, his audio and analog experience and of course…the new book!

Dave returns from sticking his hand in the beam of a particle accelerator without super powers. Chris complains about context in education.

Andrew Seddon joins Chris to talk about CircuitHub, the UK electronics scene, embedded electronics and venture capital funding.

Chris and Dave discuss recent battery issues at Boeing, finding your startup match, places to practice math and where to find footprints for your pretty PCB

Brett Fox and Dr Jeroen Fonderie of Touchstone Semiconductor stop by The Amp Hour to talk shop, low power semiconductors, running a fabless analog startup and much more!

Layout problems and all the time associated with developing a good design dominates the discussion this week. Also how long learning to do something well can take.