The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
Chris Gammell and Dave Jones' voices span the chasm of thousands of miles each and every week to speak to each other and industry experts about where the field of electronics is moving. Whether it be a late breaking story about a large semiconductor manufacturer, a new piece of must-have test equipment or just talking through recent issues with their circuit designs, Chris and Dave try to make electronics more accessible for the listeners. Most importantly, they try and make the field of electronics more fun. Guests range from advanced hobbyists working on exciting new projects up through C-level executives at a variety of relevant and innovative companies. Tune in to learn more about electronics and then join the conversation! Visit The Amp Hour website for our back catalog of 150+ episodes.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 71 minutes
- Episodes
- 55
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
#701 – Electric Propulsion with Todd Bailey
Welcome back Todd Bailey of Starlight Engines, now Muon Space! (11 years later)
- Todd was on Episode 194 of The Amp Hour, when he was consulting in the art and design space and building instruments …
#700 – Beware of the Overachievers
- Dave is starting a new project for a lab timer called the uTimer
- Timelapse
- Geerling videos about clocks
- Mitxela clock
- Transflective displays
- Dave is looking at LCDs like this one
- Dropping Rs vs Ls
- …
#699 – CircuitHub, 12 Years Later with Andrew Seddon
Welcome Back, Andrew Seddon! Founder and CEO of CircuitHub.
- Andrew was first on episode 131 of The Amp Hour
- CircuitHub has a partnership with Worthington Assembly
- Worthington and CircuitHub host th…
#698 – Hardware Security with Matt Brown
Welcome Matt Brown of Brown Fine Security!
- Matt has been reverse engineering a “smart” smoker controller that talks back to AWS IOT
- Jeff Geerling talking about his dishwasher
- Storing private keys o…
#697 – LEDs Everywhere with Tim from Mitxela
Welcome Tim from Mitxela!
- Introduced by Mike Harrison, past guest of the show
- Fluid pendant
- Volumetric display
- London hackspace
#696 – It Works With Option Number 5
- Dave found a wrist mounted DMM that looks…inadvisable
- We’ll discuss the survey results next time!
- Florin Cocos of VoltLog
- Great Scott
- Sam Aldaher on the show last week
- Gerald Undone did a studio to…
#695 – Making The Invisible, Visible with Sam Aldhaher
Welcome Sam Aldhaher, power engineer and 3D graphic artist!
- Sam has always been interested in art…and power engineering
- He primarily works in Blender and has been for 5-6 years
- Inputs and outputs
- S…
#694 – Voltage, Vibes, and VOCs
We are doing a 2025 listener survey! Answer the survey and put in your email to win one of three Jumperless OG units donated by Kevin Cappuccio (past guest of the show). Last day to input is June 1s…
#693 – Small Scale Electronics Manufacturing with Colin O’Flynn
Welcome back Dr Colin O’Flynn of Dalhousie University and New AE tech!
- Colin has been on the show twice before
- Colin continues to publish/do research arou…
#692 – Like a steam engine in your house
We are doing a 2025 listener survey! Answer the survey and put in your email to win one of three Jumperless OG units donated by Kevin Cappuccio (past guest of the show) Note: this was corrected from…
#691 – System Designer Lets You Try Every Part with Michael Gielda
Welcome back (for a third time!) Michael Gielda of Antmicro
- Michael and Chris usually see each other around the Zephyr booth at Embedded World, but not this year
- Antmicro continues to work on Zephy…
#690 – Clap on, clap off, lights flicker
- Meetup.com doubled their prices so the 3H Triangle group moved to Luma (same is true for SF, Seattle)
- Note taking apps after Evernote was gutted: Joplin, Obsidian
- Battery leakage in a DMM
- Causes of…
#689 – A Jumperless Breadboard with Kevin Cappuccio
Welcome Kevin Cappuccio, creator of the Jumperless Breadboard (v5 and before)
#688 – The Tandy Train
- Tracking test equipment on one long homepage…the emporer of test equipment
- If you track it, it’s not hoarding…it’s curation
- Very specific piece of junk wood
- Garage
- Solar
- Amber allows you to sell po…
#687 – The RP2350 with the Raspberry Pi Team
Welcome James Adams, Chris Boross, Liam Fraser, and Luke Wren!
- The last time the RPi team was on the show was about the RP1 (#648)
- The order of parts being released was RP2040->RP1->RP2350
- Check ou…
#686 – A Benchtop Pick and Place with Stephen Hawes
Welcome, Stephen Hawes!
- Chris interviewed Stephen back in 2020 for his second episode of The Contextual Electronics Podcast. It was when Stephen was still working at Formlabs and the Lumen/Opulo we…
#685 – Data Provenance in the Home, Server, and Fab
- Home assistant
- Homelab subreddit
- Solar assistant
- proxmox
- CarPlay / android auto
- NUCs
- Video Interview with Lee (since posted as #684 of TAH)
- 25K pound amplifier repair and associated EEVblog forum p…
#684 – Lee Felsenstein: The Computer Revolution & Counterculture
A full 3 hour discussion with the legendary Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1, SOL computer, VDM-1, Pennywhistle modem, and the inventor of social media. Covering everything from the Berkele…
#683 – Troubleshooting is the skill
- AI tools for helping with coding (but NOT layout, amirite)
- Troubleshooting as a skillset
- Stick meme
- Dave got an updated electrical box
- Home assistant
- Keith Burzinski episode (ESPhome)
- Toothbrus…
#682 – Your Mind Is The Tool
- Chris has been troubleshooting a PCB with a dead short on inner layers (put in by board house by mistake)
- Don’t Touch My Gerbers shirt
- “Is there an AI tool that will fix this for me?” … No
- Chris du…