The Amp Hour

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1. An Interview with Dmitry Nedospasov

   17 juni 2016 · 1 uur 22 min

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   Dmitry Nedospasov is a full time hardware hacker and security researcher. He tells us about how to get into the silicon and learn all about what’s going on under the hood of devices.

2. An Interview with Clint Cole of Digilent

   10 juni 2016 · 1 uur 47 min

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   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.

3. The Nerd Calendar

   3 juni 2016 · 1 uur 8 min

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   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!

4. Three Hundred Down, Three Hundred To Go

   27 mei 2016 · 1 uur 4 min

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   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!

5. An Interview with Jonathan Hirschman of PCB:NG

   20 mei 2016 · 1 uur 26 min

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

6. Don't Turn It On, Don't Take It Apart

   13 mei 2016 · 1 uur 14 min

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   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!

7. An Interview with Jake Baker

   6 mei 2016 · 1 uur 5 min

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   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!

8. Gotta Update My Dog

   29 april 2016 · 1 uur 18 min

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

9. An Interview with Omer Kilic

   22 april 2016 · 1 uur 19 min

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   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.

10. Live from Serbia with Mike Harrison

    14 april 2016 · 1 uur 36 min

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

11. Call In Show #4

    1 april 2016 · 1 uur 9 min

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    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.

12. An Interview with Timothy Lamb

    25 maart 2016 · 1 uur 6 min

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    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.

13. Artificially Intelligent Party Platform

    18 maart 2016 · 1 uur 6 min

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

14. An Interview with Mark Morin of Nufern

    11 maart 2016 · 1 uur 13 min

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

15. Documentation Is A Waste Of Time

    4 maart 2016 · 1 uur 1 min

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

16. Call In Show #3

    26 februari 2016 · 1 uur 22 min

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

17. Pull The Trigger

    19 februari 2016 · 1 uur 16 min

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

18. An Interview with Saar Drimer

    12 februari 2016 · 1 uur 18 min

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    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!

19. Something's Serially Wrong Here

    5 februari 2016 · 1 uur 13 min

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

20. An Interview with Great Scott

    29 januari 2016 · 1 uur 12 min

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

21. An Interview with Jonathan Ellis

    23 januari 2016 · 1 uur 41 min

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    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

22. 3D Product Logistics

    15 januari 2016 · 1 uur 20 min

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    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.

23. Crossovers and Call-ins

    8 januari 2016 · 1 uur 47 min

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    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.

24. New Year Education

    1 januari 2016 · 1 uur 36 min

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

25. Merry Keyzermas!

    25 december 2015 · 1 uur 28 min

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

26. Our Second Callin Show(ish)

    18 december 2015 · 1 uur 11 min

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

27. Interconnectorama

    11 december 2015 · 1 uur 10 min

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    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!

28. Eating An Elephant

    4 december 2015 · 1 uur 21 min

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    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!

29. No One Even Missed Us?

    20 november 2015 · 1 uur 17 min

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

30. Our First Call In Show

    6 november 2015 · 1 uur 2 min

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    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.

31. Part Choice Triathlon

    30 oktober 2015 · 1 uur 23 min

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

32. An Interview With Luke Beno of Analog.io

    23 oktober 2015 · 1 uur 23 min

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    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.

33. Amazon Moves In, Dave Says Run

    16 oktober 2015 · 1 uur 20 min

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    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!

34. An Interview With Dafydd Roche

    9 oktober 2015 · 1 uur 25 min

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    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.

35. Be Tidy

    2 oktober 2015 · 1 uur 6 min

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    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!

36. An Interview with Luke Iseman of yCombinator

    24 september 2015 · 1 uur 14 min

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

37. Standing With Ahmed

    18 september 2015 · 1 uur 3 min

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    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).

38. An Interview with Ronald Sousa of Hash Define Electronics

    10 september 2015 · 1 uur 28 min

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

39. A Security Update with Michael Ossmann

    4 september 2015 · 1 uur 27 min

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

40. The Cost Of Doing Business

    28 augustus 2015 · 1 uur 6 min

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

41. An Interview with Fran Blanche

    21 augustus 2015 · 1 uur 48 min

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    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!

42. Jobs For Weirdos

    14 augustus 2015 · 1 uur 13 min

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    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!

43. Recycle All Your Microcontrollers

    7 augustus 2015 · 1 uur 16 min

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    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.

44. An interview with Ariel Briner of Cartesian Co

    30 juli 2015 · 1 uur 23 min

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    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!

45. No More Naming

    24 juli 2015 · 1 uur 27 min

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

46. An Interview with Bertrand Irrisou and Gerald Friedland of Audeme

    16 juli 2015 · 1 uur 16 min

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    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.

47. An Interview with Fabienne Serrière of KnitYak

    10 juli 2015 · 1 uur 10 min

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

48. Is This A Show?

    3 juli 2015 · 1 uur 27 min

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    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.

49. Inspirations and Aspirations - Recanting Rocket Rationale

    26 juni 2015 · 1 uur 1 min

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

50. An Interview with Andreas Olofsson - Adapteva's Ampliative Abacus

    18 juni 2015 · 1 uur 6 min

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    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!