The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Dave and Chris start by talking about energy and end up talking about silicon eventually.

Matt Ettus of Ettus Research (and NI) stops by The Amp Hour to talk software defined radio and the future of the airwaves.

Dave and Chris discuss birthdays, discussion forums, fab building, chip building, cheap devices, expensive chips, job seeking and much more! Happy 100th episode!

Steve Leibson joins Chris and Dave for a chat about the EDA industry, Steve’s work with HP and various tech companies and the future of chips.

Dave and Chris discuss active component makers now making passive components! Also kit making, FPGA kits, 4 bits and a bit of news in the Test and Measurement industry.

[display_podcast] Welcome, Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Project! Chris just got back from Maker Faire! Is there a stigma against "Makers" by engineers by profession? There's an article at Engineer Blogs about this subject. There was an article from the Drive for Innovation stating the engineer's dislike for Makers as well. No one recognized Chris because of his Twitter picture. Chris built a 555...

A bit of a mixed bag episode. Chris is off to Maker Faire, and Dave likes to carry a man bag.

Øyvind Janbu, CTO of Energy Micro, joins to talk about fabless semiconductor manufacturing of low power and low cost microcontrollers.

[display_podcast] We'll be interviewing Øyvind Janbu, the CTO and co-founder of Energy Micro next week! We'll have a separate post for asking him questions. Chris will be speaking at the Bay Area Maker Faire. If you're going to be there, find a comfy chair and prepare for a snoozefest ;-) Second reminder for applying to the Lemnos Labs hardware incubator program, which will be closing soon. Our fr...

Tom LeMense joins Chris and Dave to talk about his experiences in designing circuits for autos. He’s worked at many different places throughout SE Michigan.

[display_podcast] Another round with the MightyOhm! Welcome back Jeff! Jeff has a new job! He'll be joining Valve as a hardware designer in June! There is a handbook for working at Valve that was previously released online. Additionally, another employee wrote about the culture of working at Valve. Jeff highlights the importance of networking. Chris has written about this before, specifically for...

Dave and Chris talk connectors, OSHW, Raspberry Pi, Old magazines, more connectors, patents and a lot more!

Dave and Chris prepare for cheap chocolate Monday by discussing Jim Williams, old transistor manuals, hardware conferences, component storage, sharing SPICE and more!

Dave and Chris have some news about the show!

Chris and Dave discuss reed switches,electric vehicles, CAD programs, design considerations, transformers, power monitoring and of course, yodeling.

Ian Daniher of Nonolith Labs joins to talk about his up and coming measurement device called the CEE

We’ve had a few requests for the files behind The Amp Hour Theme Music. This was generously donated by one of our listeners, Paul Stevenson. You can find the file here on our LibSyn server. All we ask is that you don’t misuse the music or put it to something without Paul’s permission (i.e. Please don’t go creating The Bizarro Amp Hour Show or something like that). Paul also wrote a version with wo...

Chris and Dave talk about sales and dealing with distributors/salesmen. Dave talks about doing layout with tape and Chris brings up printed electronics (again)

[display_podcast] We're showcasing other podcasts this week and asking more about you, our listener! Please take the survey on our episode page! New (or previously unannounced) Podcasts: Engineer Vs Designer, a podcast about 3D printing, CAD and the conflict between engineers and designers. They have a competition in process to win a MakerBot Replicator. IEEE Spectrum Podcast -- Host Steven Cherry...

[display_podcast] Welcome, Bunnie Huang! Bunnie is the hardware designer behind the Chumby family of products. He also wrote a book about his experience of Hacking the Xbox. He got a little help from some friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He also recently released the NeTV, which was met with some DMCA resistance due to the method in which he injects pixels. You can get chumby/NeTV ha...

Lots of talk about CAD, Education, Startups and China today!

Chris is back from Hawaii, and we are joined once again by Jeff Keyzer of Mightyohm.com.

Whilst Chris is on his belated honeymoon, regular cohort Jeff Keyzer from Mightohm.com takes over.

Dave and Chris talk Arduino power supplies, MP3 projects, manufacturing on-shore and gray beards in Silicon Valley.

Chris and Dave discuss the chinese new year, buying parts and boards locally, Jim Williams, kickstarter projects, board cutters, the OSE project and much more!