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The Amp Hour

David L. Jones and Chris Gammell

An off-the-cuff radio show and podcast for electronics enthusiasts and professionals. Note: this is the "show only" version of the feed. To see the show notes, check out the main podcast feed: https://theamphour.com/feed/

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Thursday · 58 min
The Amp Hour #732 - Hands-on Physical AI with Kevin Cloutier
August 20 · 1 hr 22 min
The Amp Hour #731 - E&M Reality Emerges with Robert Fennis
Robert Fennis joins Chris to demystify the black magic of RF and talk about his open-source, Python-based 3D electromagnetic solver, EMerge. They discuss why simulation is like building a pyramid of knowledge, how silk screen can completely de-tune a patch antenna, and Robert's quest to build the "IKEA of FEM solvers" so hardware developers everywhere can simulate their designs without relying on insanely expensive proprietary software.
August 5 · 55 min
The Amp Hour #730 - The Focus Knob Works
Dave and Chris celebrate 16 years of the show (1st episode was August 10th, 2010) by launching a brand-new static website featuring searchable transcripts and a "pissed-old amber" SVG scope with a working focus knob--and links to merch!. They also discuss Dave's new employee, 10 cent RISC-V debuggers, and why naming your startup after an un-Googleable Australian cryptid is a bad move
July 22 · 1 hr 20 min
The Amp Hour #729 - The Terahertz Frontier with Greg Charvat of Teradar
Dr Greg Charvat, CTO and co-founder of Teradar, joins Chris for a 5th appearance on The Amp Hour to talk about how terahertz frequency radar will revolutionize the automotive space and far outstrips the capabilities of LIDAR and Blobbology
July 9 · 1 hr 6 min
The Amp Hour #728 - Space Age Bluetooth with Alex Haro
Alex Haro, CEO of Hubble, joins Chris to talk about building a network of terrestrial and space (!) based Bluetooth infrastructure to track low power devices across the globe, without a data plan or a GPS module onboard.
July 2 · 54 min
The Amp Hour #727 - Boat Anchor Warehouse
June 17 · 1 hr 10 min
The Amp Hour #726 - Arduino's Invisible Touch with Massimo Banzi
Massimo Banzi is co-founder and figurehead of Arduino, the worldwide community built upon easily accessible embedded hardware. He joins Chris to talk about the design, rise, struggles, and eventual exit of the company, and what he's now doing with Supermoderno.
June 4 · 59 min
The Amp Hour 725 - The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski
Michał Zalewski (lcamtuf) is a security researcher, author, electronics enthusiast, and calculator collector. He joins Chris to talk about his new book The Secret Life of Circuits and his interest in the field of electronics and explaining things to others.
May 25 · 1 hr 5 min
The Amp Hour #724 - All Heat, No Useful Work
Dave and Chris discuss the infrastructure and massive energy demands of AI data centers, injecting power through a programming header, Linux changes, and dogfooding your own projects.
May 7 · 1 hr 10 min
The Amp Hour #723 - BeagleBoard's Back with Jason Kridner
April 23 · 1 hr 9 min
The Amp Hour #722 - AI Tooling with Matt Liberty and Luke Beno
April 9 · 59 min
The Amp Hour #721 - Chip Design for Fun (and Waffles) with Julia Desmazes
April 1 · 1 hr 1 min
The Amp Hour #720 - Hyper Growth and OpenClaw Interns
#719
March 20 · 1 hr 5 min
The Amp Hour #719 - Inventing the Power MOSFET with Alex Lidow
Alex is founder and CEO of Efficient Power Conversion, a leading manufacurer of GaN MOSFET's. Alex is also the inventor of the original Power MOSFET and HEXFET at International Rectifier. Also, former CEO of International Rectifier (founded by his father!), https://epc-co.com We cover everything from inventing the power MOSFET on his first day on the job to silicon physics, AI data centres and humanoid robots. Enjoy.
#718
March 11 · 1 hr
The Amp Hour #718 - Layout Review with Zachariah
March 4 · 59 min
The Amp Hour #717 - Back on the Road in '26
February 26 · 1 hr 2 min
The Amp Hour #716 - Electronics Manufacturing History with David Ray
February 10 · 58 min
The Amp Hour #715 - Shiny New Pebble with Eric Migicovsky
February 3 · 1 hr 17 min
The Amp Hour #714 - The Measurement Blues with Martin Rowe
January 26 · 1 hr 9 min
The Amp Hour #713 - Rubber Duck Incarnate

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