Alle afleveringen van The Amp Hour – pagina 14 van 16

Gouging Green Gardyloo

2 juli 2012 · 1 uur 7 min

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

An Interview with Matt Ettus - Quality Quadrature Quidam

25 juni 2012 · 1 uur 16 min

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

Bonkers Birthday Badinage

18 juni 2012 · 1 uur 9 min

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

An Interview with Steve Leibson - Impavid Ideopraxist Insider

11 juni 2012 · 1 uur 20 min

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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.

Proemial Passive Poiesis

4 juni 2012 · 1 uur 8 min

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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.

An Interview with Eben Upton - Morbus Moilsome MakerFaire

28 mei 2012 · 1 uur 5 min

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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 boost converter for his bring-along project that then powered some HB LEDs. Jeff (MightyOhm) was there presenting his open source hardware Geiger counter and showing it off at his booth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_3SVE0CQqw The commerce side of Maker Faire was really comfortable, it was different than conferences, where you should use fake emails and probably don't want to buy from anyone. We'll be shooting for a guest every other week from now on, feel free to call us on it if you don't hear one. The crew from Dangerous Prototypes did a fun video on "How To" for Maker Faire. Look for Chris and Bunnie at 1:20 and then Chris later around the 5 minute mark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39xX4xi0Uh8 Thanks to Eben for talking to Chris during Maker Faire! And thanks to Element14 for helping set up the interview. It was tons of fun. Lees meer

Senseless Saccadic Shemozzle

21 mei 2012 · 1 uur 6 min

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

An Interview with Øyvind Janbu - Feracious Fabless Facilitator

14 mei 2012 · 1 uur 16 min

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

Gnomic Gazumping Gobemouche

7 mei 2012 · 1 uur 11 min

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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 friend Alan Wolke did a really fun tour of his shop...through the screen of his oscilloscope! Lots of fun! Dave has finally figured out his MakerBot...with some help from his friends and by reading the (friggin) manual. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omtmtJelm9M Chris brings up a fun direct ink resist print using a vintage Epson printer. Great quality! Sometimes process adjustments are necessary to get more life out of a process node. Chris mentioned an Engineer Blogs post about Photolithography, but that actually doesn't talk about the interference. There is a slide set from the University of Waterloo that does a good job explaining this process. Intel continues to win by being the bleeding edge process company. Will be interesting to see if they get into the foundry business. Dave mentioned the recently announced scandal involving Silverbrook in Australia, who have failed to produce output for many many years. Apparently it's possible to print super caps with a Laser Scribe DVD burner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oEFwyoWKXo DigiKey instituted a visual catalog...online! Finally! Have they been listening to the show?? LEDs that are going to be lighting up homes and workplaces almost were not possible. A researcher in the field explains the small margin on the bandgap required. Dave mentions Gazumping, which Chris had never heard of. Relays are a simple and yet crucial part of electronics. Chris was looking for cheap and small ones and was shown these from Omron. However, they didn't fit the bill. Instead, we found out about new research into relay-like devices....on sili… Lees meer

An Interview with Tom LeMense - Cacaesthestic Chronometric Carriwitchet

1 mei 2012 · 1 uur 26 min

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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.

Vellicate Videogame Vocation

23 april 2012 · 1 uur 9 min

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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 engineers. In getting a new job, it's becoming increasingly important to show a portfolio of sorts. Jeff does this by documenting his projects on his MightyOhm website. Jeff's kit business will continue but may need to be outsourced to a third party. Kickstarter is getting bigger, as are the projects. The Pebble watch is now at $6 million dollars (and counting) and has 26 days left. Ian of Dangerous Prototypes visit the SEG market in Shenzhen and show off the true power of a large electronics ecosystem/supply chain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBtRJc-z05k New type of patent agreement out of the engineering group at Twitter. States that patents will only be used defensively and continue to be used in the same manner wherever those patents go. Speaking of legal issues, a seemingly bogus lawsuit is being claimed against (many) companies that sell vacuum tubes with mercury in them...that they have mercury in them! Shocker! See more from this Hack-a-Day post and accompanying law filing. It was great having Jeff back on the show and we can’t wait to see what he develops while at Valve. We wish him the best of luck! Lees meer

Idiographical Interconnect Intorsion

16 april 2012 · 1 uur 10 min

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

Chaffered Chocolate Coemption

9 april 2012 · 1 uur 7 min

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

The Amp Hour #88.5 -- Telematic Tested Tacenda

1 april 2012 · 8 min

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Dave and Chris have some news about the show!

Yonderly Yodeling Yobbos

26 maart 2012 · 1 uur 4 min

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

An Interview with Ian Daniher - Nascent Nonolith Numquid

19 maart 2012 · 1 uur 4 min

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

The Amp Hour Theme Song

14 maart 2012

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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 words, also available on our LibSyn server. It’s titled, Chloroform The Amps. Here’s a version on YouTube if you don’t want to download and/or see the lyrics: Lees meer

Emolumental Evaluation Emporetics

12 maart 2012 · 1 uur 12 min

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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)

Reputable Radio Reification

5 maart 2012 · 1 uur 5 min

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[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 talks to industry veterans in 10-15 minute clips about all manner of industry topics. Story Collider -- A mashup of science and comedy, this podcast has a different person talking each show about funny stories involving science. We'll add a section on the website for other podcasts we like HAXLR8R is rolling! And we helped inform one of the participants! Tom from Boulder ElectroRide was accepted and is now writing about his experience on a new blog. Star Simpson, another member of the HAXLR8R program, is keeping a journal of her travels as well. Both are super interesting! So glad that there are hardware startups...and people are starting to notice! Lattice has a new logo...and it could mess up your ability to spot one of their parts until you learn the new logo. If you need to spot old logos, check out this site. Dave's video about the anti static bag myth was passed down the chain by Element14 and they should be using the correct bags now. BoredAtWork writes on the EEVBlog Forum about the silliness of pricing when it's just a software upgrade, but Chris and Dave understand the reality behind it. You need margin in order to work on next generation stuff! Chris Anderson wrote a series on "Maker Businesses" and makes a similar point. You need to charge 2.4x your costs in order to maintain business! (i.e. $10 in parts means you have to charge $24). Business Week writes about the true cost of low cost products: managers beholden to shareholders chasing the rock bottom prices will not have time and resources to focus on a good product. Chris uses Dropbox to maintain CAD files… Lees meer

An Interview with Bunnie Huang - Bunnie's Bibelot Bonification

28 februari 2012 · 1 uur 20 min

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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 hacker kits over at adafruit. He gets to go to some of the electronics markets, such as the SEG market in Shenzhen. Ian from Dangerous Prototypes went to the Japanese version of this market recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DHX2FruBog While in the SEG market, you can even buy an iPhone schematic! Bunnie discussed Moore's law (and the breakdown thereof) at the OSHW conference and we discussed on episode 61 of The Amp Hour (with Jeff!), around 20 minutes in. We asked why he decided to use Marvell chips, as opposed to a more open chip company like Freescale (in relative terms). Thanks again to Bunnie for taking the time to talk about his work and his philosophy on design. We hope you all enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed talking to him! Please leave any unanswered questions in the comments and we'll try to follow up by next week! Note: We changed the encoded volume of the podcast so we don’t blow anyone’s eardrums out when they jump from their favorite NPR podcast (Car Talk, duh) to ours or whatever else you’re listening to. Sorry if this has been an issue in the past. Thanks to Joi Ito for the image of Bunnie Lees meer

Aggravating Agersia Agiotage

20 februari 2012 · 1 uur 6 min

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

Vecordious Vacation Variorum

14 februari 2012 · 1 uur 8 min

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

Jersey Jeff Jactitation

7 februari 2012 · 1 uur 8 min

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

Otiose Ontocyclic Opiniasters

30 januari 2012 · 1 uur 5 min

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

Ludibrious Luxating Layout

24 januari 2012 · 1 uur 7 min

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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!

Alteritous Andy's Absquatulation

17 januari 2012 · 1 uur 8 min

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Dave and Chris run through their latest projects, favorite chips and say goodbye to a YouTube guy that blew lots of stuff up.

An Interview with Dr. Howard Johnson - Winsome Waveform Wizardry

10 januari 2012 · 1 uur 27 min

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Dr. Howard Johnson, high speed signal integrity consultant, author and teacher stops by The Amp Hour to talk Black Magic and signals!

Fremescent Floccose Fortification

3 januari 2012 · 1 uur 7 min

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Chris and Dave discuss the Open Source Ecology project, educational refactoring (again), Luddites, engineering certification, new music and lots more!

An Interview with Ben Krasnow - Sprauncy Saccadic Spintherism

27 december 2011 · 1 uur 4 min

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Ben Krasnow joins Chris and Dave to talk about his garage experimentation, education reform, tinkering, cooking and lots more!

Younker Youtube Yarling

20 december 2011 · 1 uur 4 min

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Dave and Chris talk about music, Youtube, benches, power supplies, R&D spending and the lack thereof.

Horrisonous Holiday Habromania

13 december 2011 · 1 uur 8 min

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Chris, Dave and Jeff talk holiday wish lists, ham radio call signs, toys, gear, kits and lots more!

Kismetic Keithley Katowse

6 december 2011 · 1 uur 6 min

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Chris details his leaving of Keithley Instruments for new ventures and Dave probes about the Test and Measurement industry.

An Interview with John Edmond - Luciferous LED Lucubrator

29 november 2011 · 1 uur 4 min

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John Edmond, one of the co-founders of Cree and the current Director of Advanced Optoelectronics Technology stops by to talk LEDs with Chris and Dave.

Idiorhythmic IPC Inconcinnity

22 november 2011 · 1 uur 4 min

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Chris and Dave talk about the pitfalls of consulting, the joys of thanksgiving, the wonders of ham radio and the oddness (to Dave) of moving snow off a driveway.

Control loops & Flying probers - Quassating Quadcopter Quantophrenia

15 november 2011 · 1 uur 6 min

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This week Chris and Dave talk about a quadcopters, control loops, flying probers, engineering salaries and much more!

Radiation Chips & Old Package Types - Technocratic Toilet Troubleshooting

8 november 2011 · 1 uur 4 min

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Dave and Chris discuss troubleshooting, decorating offices, radiation chips and old package types.

BeagleBoard successors, CAD & Robots - Haussmannized Halloween Hypostrophe

1 november 2011 · 1 uur 3 min

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Dave and Chris talk about nerdy Halloweens, BeagleBoard successors, CAD programs, OSHW, Robots, India and lots more!

Magnets, China & IEEE - Xenomorphic Xerox Xebec

25 oktober 2011 · 1 uur 6 min

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Chris, Dave and Jeff talk about amateur radio, the IEEE’s marginal benefit and magnets in China and what happens when they stop selling them!

Silego, ADCs & Seismic Detection - Dave's Dingo Dystocia

18 oktober 2011 · 1 uur 5 min

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Dave and Chris discuss dingo projects, dying pioneers, audio ADCs, seismic measurements, tiny parts and lots more!

OSHW, Makerbot & Memristo - Maundering Memristor Mathematicaster

11 oktober 2011 · 1 uur 8 min

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Chris and Dave debate the merits of OSHW funding, the possibility of an actual memristor device “on the shelf” and when to rework products based on cost.

Shop bots, 450 mm fabs & redFrog - Pick and Place Palillogy

4 oktober 2011 · 1 uur 6 min

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Chris and Dave talk about Dave’s new lab space, Pick and Place machines, shop bots, 450 mm fabs, tech campuses and lots more!

Op amps, Microchips & Mergers - Narquois Nerd Nescience - Narquois Nerd Nescience

27 september 2011 · 1 uur 3 min

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Dave and Chris discuss op amps, the TI/National merger, new microcontrollers, printable electronics, switchers, battery charging and much more!

Moore's Law, GaN and SiC devices - Gallimaufry GaN Gabble

20 september 2011 · 1 uur 10 min

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Dave, Chris and Jeff talk all about the Open Source Hardware convention, GaN and SiC devices, Moore’s Law and lots more!

An Interview with Joe Grand - Pancyclopaedic Prototyping Polymath

13 september 2011 · 1 uur 4 min

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Electrical Engineer and Inventor Joe Grand joins Chris and Dave to talk about hacking electronics, engineering on TV and inventing and manufacturing electronics.

An Interview with Jeff Keyzer and Jason Kridner - Bonafide BeagleBoard Bionomics

6 september 2011 · 1 uur 17 min

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Chris, Dave, Jeff Keyzer and Jason Kridner talk all manner of embedded computing and electronics. Updates on the BeagleBoard project and the chaos communications camp.

Multicopter, DIY drones & Tektronix - Zappy Zendik Zoilism

30 augustus 2011 · 1 uur 6 min

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Chris and Dave talk about crashing copters, dumbfounding dowsers, brilliant bingo and kickstarter kludges.

An Interview with Alan Yates - Recondite Radiation Raconteur

23 augustus 2011 · 1 uur 8 min

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Guest Alan Yates (VK2ZAY) talks about his ham, pyrotechnic, radiation, software and maker hobbies.

Open Orbific Oratiuncle

16 augustus 2011 · 1 uur 7 min

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Another week of bouncing from topic to topic. This week included robots, entrepreneurs, OSHW, FPAAs, Ecology and LEDs!

Shonky Stiver Stultiloquence

9 augustus 2011 · 1 uur 5 min

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We start a new segment about ridiculous electronics products being sold to the public. They also discuss DIY going mainstream and the money associated with it.

An Interview with Jack Ganssle - Embedded Elchee Epexegesis

2 augustus 2011 · 1 uur 6 min

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Jack Ganssle joins Chris and Dave to talk about the electronics industry, embedded electronics, micros, FPGAs and lots more!