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1. An Interview with Travis Goodspeed

   13 mei 2019 · 1 uur 13 min

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   Travis Goodspeed joins Chris to talk about his past projects (GoodFET, GoodWatch, M380 tools, P25 Jammer, Facedancer, more) and how each new project spawns communities large and small.

2. Motivational Speaker

   6 mei 2019 · 1 uur 7 min

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   Chris and Dave recap KiCon, talk about the future of KiCad, discuss standing up new brands and trademarks and remark on the state of robotics.

3. #440.3 - Interviews with Anool Mahidharia, AJ Keller, Uriel Guy, Ste Kulov, and Craig Bishop at KiCon 2019

   4 mei 2019 · 44 min

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   Anool Mahidharia (Lumetronics), AJ Keller (Neurosity), Uriel Guy (Light Art), Ste Kulov (HD Retrovision), Craig Bishop (Craigjb.com) talk with Chris, Alvaro and Piotr at KiCon2019

4. #440.2 - Interviews with Greg Davill and Michael Ossmann

   1 mei 2019 · 31 min

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   We sit down with Greg Davill and Michael Ossmann for two brief chats at KiCon 2019

5. #440.1 - An Interview with the core KiCad development team

   29 april 2019 · 43 min

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   This is the first of a couple episodes that will be posted from KiCon 2019. This interview was in two parts with some of the developers from the KiCad project. We talked with Wayne Stambaugh, Maciej “Orson” Suminski, Tomasz Wlostowski, Jon Evans, and Seth Hillbrand. Lees meer

6. Grow A Superbrain

   22 april 2019 · 1 uur 11 min

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   Chris and Dave discuss signal integrity, Kirchoff’s current law and building up a new base of knowledge.

7. An Interview with Bart Dring

   15 april 2019 · 1 uur 32 min

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   Bart Dring joins Chris to talk about CNCs, motion control and building custom robots.

8. An Interview with Chrissy Meyer

   8 april 2019 · 1 uur 8 min

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   This week Chrissy Meyer of Root Ventures joins Chris to talk about DfM at large companies like Apple and Square. Also how these and other skills have translated into working with hardware startups in the venture world.

9. Downward Sloping Trace

   1 april 2019 · 1 uur 8 min

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   This week Dave and Chris discuss logic analyzers, layout practice, CPLDs and how heat can stack up inside a design.

10. An Interview with Andreas Spiess

    25 maart 2019 · 1 uur 19 min

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    Andreas Spiess, “the guy with the Swiss accent” on YouTube, joins Chris to talk about connected devices and the importance of rules.

11. Use The Protection Circuit

    18 maart 2019 · 1 uur 5 min

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    Dave and Chris discuss freezing LCDs, the cost of prototypes, swapping layer polarity in layout, designing with custom parts, and how to interface to unprotected battery cells.

12. An Interview with Sam Stranks

    11 maart 2019 · 1 uur 11 min

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    Sam Stranks is a researcher, professor, and entrepreneur focused on making Perovskites into a commercially viable solar cell. The efficiency has been climbing at a rapid pace over the past 10 years. He joins Chris to talk about how Perovskites could lead to more prevalent (and printed!) solar cells. Lees meer

13. Check The Dummy Box

    4 maart 2019 · 1 uur 3 min

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    This week Dave and Chris discuss designing hardware without specifications, upcoming conferences, working with software services on distributed hardware and how to measure current over a large dynamic range.

14. An Interview with Adam McCombs

    25 februari 2019 · 1 uur 17 min

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    Adam McCombs joins Chris to talk about his love of scanning electron microscopes and all things in the world of minuscule measurements. Listen as he discusses repairing, moving and troubleshooting high complexity, high voltage machines.

15. Shahriar Discusses 5G

    18 februari 2019 · 1 uur 17 min

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    Shahriar from The Signal Path returns to talk with Dave about 5G and the practical implementation of new broadband technologies. This discussion ranged from phased signal arrays to the importance of processing new information via the internet.

16. An Interview with Charles Alexanian

    11 februari 2019 · 1 uur 28 min

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    Charles Alexanian joins Chris to talk about manufacturing in the agriculture space, repairing and sourcing components for the music industry and hobbies that take you far afield.

17. Setting Fire To The Tracks

    4 februari 2019 · 1 uur 10 min

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    Dave returns from his walkabout to talk with Chris while he’s shivering in Chicago (-23F the day of recording). They discuss dev boards, new chipsets, machine learning, checklists, high speed design, microcontroller features and much more!

18. An Interview with Maarten Engelen

    28 januari 2019 · 1 uur 7 min

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    Maarten Engelen is the CTO of Hiber, a low earth orbit satellite company that offers low data rate connectivity to remote applications. He joins Chris to talk about building and deploying satellites and modems for modern applications.

19. An Interview with Dean Pick

    21 januari 2019 · 1 uur 15 min

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    Dean Pick joins Chris to talk about founding 3 different companies working on automatic transmission motorcycles, shape memory alloy linear actuators and large scale installations of biomass power generation.

20. An Interview with Chris Osterwood

    14 januari 2019 · 1 uur 16 min

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    Chris Osterwood joins Chris to talk about the constraints of building ground robots, designing reliable machines and making components that robot companies can easily integrate into their next product.

21. An Interview with Julia Truchsess

    7 januari 2019 · 1 uur 30 min

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    Julia Truchsess, founder of Pragmatic Designs, joins Chris to talk about consulting, the audio industry, toy production and creating products that end up in popular music and millions of households.

22. Open FPGA Toolchains at 35c3

    2 januari 2019 · 49 min

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    In this special episode recorded at Chaos Communication Congress (35c3), Piotr Esden-Tempski, Clifford Wolf and Dave Shah talk about the state of open FPGA toolchains and the recently announced nextpnr toolset.

23. Stick 'Em On Whales

    28 december 2018 · 1 uur 28 min

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    This week Chris joins Elecia and Chris White of Embedded.fm to talk about the state of the electronics/embedded world and to recap favorite episodes of the year.

24. The Legend of Keyzermas

    23 december 2018 · 1 uur 32 min

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    Jeff Keyzer (Mightyohm) joins Dave and Chris to celebrate the state of the electronics world and to chat about what’s on the horizon.

25. An Interview with Joe Long

    17 december 2018 · 1 uur 35 min

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    Joe Long joins Chris to talk about subscription boxes of electronics (Hackerboxes.com), learning through project based education and working as an IP attorney writing high tech utility patents (Long Tech Law).

26. Feels over reals

    10 december 2018 · 1 uur 3 min

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    This week Chris and Dave discuss letting magic smoke out of transformers, building with highly integrated SIPs, the ethics of scooters and how to craft a layout contest.

27. An Interview with Josh Datko

    3 december 2018 · 1 uur 31 min

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    Josh Datko joined Chris to talk about embedded security, military contracting and to tell stories about his time on nuclear submarines and as a naval officer in the middle of Afghanistan.

28. Cash Is King

    26 november 2018 · 1 uur 4 min

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    Dave and Chris talk about the ins and outs of running product and consulting businesses and dealing with cashflow. Also Chris announces that KiCon 2019 will be taking place in April 2019 in Chicago IL

29. An Interview with James Bruton

    19 november 2018 · 1 uur 29 min

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    James Bruton, xrobot creator and YouTuber, joins Chris and Dave to talk about robots, video documentation and the challenges of carrying your 40 kg robotic dog up the stairs.

30. Ergs Per Second

    12 november 2018 · 1 uur 12 min

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    Chris and Dave catch up about conference talks, designing PCBs into cases, thin PCB design and solar panels fading into the background.

31. An Interview with Scotty Allen (Strangeparts)

    6 november 2018 · 1 uur 55 min

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    Scotty Allen travels the world documenting technology stories while learning new skills. He sits down with Chris in LA to talk about building iPhones, living in Shenzhen and The Engineers Journey.

32. A House of FR4

    29 oktober 2018 · 1 uur 3 min

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    This week Dave and Chris discuss micros going in and out of style, building electronics for philanthropy, bogus water harvesting techniques, spy chips and much more!

33. 3 Cent Micros And 1000s of LEDs

    21 oktober 2018 · 1 uur 28 min

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    This week Mike Harrison of Mikes Electric Stuff joins Dave to talk about LEDs, low cost parts and tiny tiny components.

34. An Interview with Chris Denney

    15 oktober 2018 · 1 uur 34 min

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    Chris Denney, CTO of Worthington Assembly, joins Chris to talk about contract manufacturing in the US, DfM and doing more efficient board assembly.

35. Secret Buzzer Handshake

    7 oktober 2018 · 1 uur 14 min

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    This week Chris and Dave discuss PCB layout best practices, how batteries are made, landing probes onto asteroids, joining the IEEE and much more!

36. Electronics Consultant Impedance Matching

    1 oktober 2018 · 1 uur 24 min

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    Piotr Esden-Tempski, Eric Thompson and Dave Young join Chris to talk about working as electronics consultants and what to look out for when joining the world of consulting.

37. Tronnort Software Rises Again!

    24 september 2018 · 1 uur 20 min

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    Dave and Chris discuss part libraries, hacker movies, buying from China, how to read measurements and much more!

38. Gregory Charvat and Three New Companies

    17 september 2018 · 1 uur 33 min

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    Dr Gregory Charvat returns to The Amp Hour for a fourth time to discuss the three startups he has been working on since his last appearance: an ultrasound company, a stealth mode startup and a company that just released a new cm accurate “indoor GPS” system for factory automation. Lees meer

39. Nerds In A Corner

    10 september 2018 · 1 uur 2 min

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    Dave and Chris chat about meetups, new PCB creation methods, flying machines, power supplies and more!

40. An Interview with Spencer Wright

    3 september 2018 · 1 uur 8 min

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    Spencer Wright is the host of The Prepared podcast and runs the Prepared newsletter. He joins Chris to talk about the state of the manufacturing industry, 3D printing, sourcing parts and trends driving manufacturing in the future.

41. Proof Of Blink

    27 augustus 2018 · 1 uur 7 min

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    Dave and Chris discuss moving into the consulting world, high end scopes, low cost CAD and why your next LED project probably won’t involve blockchain.

42. An Interview with Mike Szczys

    13 augustus 2018 · 1 uur 18 min

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    Mike Szczys (“stish”) joins Chris to talk about DEF CON 26, building electronics badges for fun, other low level embedded projects and utilizing pick and place machines.

43. An Interview with Ben Einstein

    6 augustus 2018 · 1 uur 37 min

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    Ben Einstein, founder of Bolt, talks to Chris about how hardware startups can get off the ground and how Bolt helps guide them with advice, design resources, and prototyping facilities.

44. An Interview with Brent and Bryce Salmi

    30 juli 2018 · 2 uur 5 min

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    Brent and Bryce Salmi are avionic electronics engineers who recently completed a 5 year tenure at SpaceX. They talk to Chris about designing for extreme reliability and creating open source digital radios.

45. Once Every Couple Months

    23 juli 2018 · 1 uur 3 min

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    Dave and Chris chat again for episode 400 after a couple of weeks and many shows apart! They discuss video games, CAD tools, tariffs, LCDs and PCBs!

46. An Interview with Steve Kreuzer

    16 juli 2018 · 1 uur 19 min

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    Steve Kreuzer is a mechanical engineer who consults on projects involving everything from Lithium Ion batteries to BGAs to human heart cells. He talks to Chris about their shared past and how he does consulting for Exponent.

47. An Interview with Felix Rusu

    9 juli 2018 · 1 uur 24 min

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    Felix Rusu of Low Power Lab joins Chris to talk about home automation projects built using subgigahertz radios and small batteries. Learn about how to build your own battery powered home projects!

48. #397.10 - An Interview with Jeremy Hong

    26 juni 2018 · 31 min

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    Jeremy Hong does reverse engineering during the day and has an RF addiction all the time. He sits down with Chris for a final interview from ToorCamp.

49. #397.9 - An Interview with Dominic Spill

    25 juni 2018 · 33 min

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    Dominic Spill is a software engineer at Great Scott Gadgets who helped architect the Ubertooth One, The Yardstick One and the HackRF One. He talks about the full software stack with Chris at ToorCamp.

50. #397.8 - An Interview with Chris Gerlinsky

    25 juni 2018 · 22 min

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    Chris Gerlinsky is an embedded engineer and hacker who reverse engineers protocols for the automotive sector. He sits down with Chris (Gammell) at ToorCamp to talk through decapping chips to extract information.