The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Welcome Lukas Henkel of OV Tech GmbH, a product design firm based in Nuremburg Germany!

• Miniturization and the limits of miniturization
• Price is a constraint
• Using standard PCB tech (off the shelf)
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• Starship 5 landed on chopsticks! (you know, in case you have been offline for 2 weeks)
• Dave’s EV had a stuck cable
• Portable charger is surprisingly good
• CCS Charging standard
• Fast charge 36/50 kW
• M…

Dan Esparon from Inovor Technologies in South Australia joins Dave to discuss all about the engineering of designing and launching satellites!

Dan works for Inovor Technologies, an Australian company…

Welcome Katerina Galitskaya!

• Chris started following Katerina’s antenna posts on LinkedIn
• Monopole vs dipole
• Lower frequences are harder bc longer wavelength
• PCB size half of frequency
• Place antent…

• Spam calls
• Keysight released the HD3, a 14 bit ADC oscilloscope (teardown video)
• Chris will be at Embedded World North America, please let him know if you’ll be there!
• Chris will be at the Joulesco…

• Chris has been moving house, which partially explains the terrible audio problems the past few episodes…
• For a lab, Chris believes in
  • Lots of wire shelving (with epoxy coating)
  • Everything on wheel…

Welcome Shawn Hymel!

• Shawn will be transitioning out Developer Relations at Edge Impulse. He will now be building courses full time. (this was recorded before Shawn announced his departure)
• He want…

• Murphy
• More efficient with cooled panels
• Battery storage solution
• Server rack batteries
• Chris has been doing hardware Livestreams
• Geofence
• n8n, Similar to Zapier, IFTTT
• Home assistant
• EE Grad wants…

Welcome, Matthias Balwierz / Bitluni / Luni!

• Midi pedals
• Old projects
• LED walls
• Dunning kruger
• Sonar scanner 
• Aliens
• Romulus
• Lifelong learning
• Beamforming
• Previously had worked on something similar…

Welcome back, Matt Venn of the Zero to Asic Course and Tiny Tapeout!

(Due to illness and some life stuff happening, my recording setup was crap. Apologies. I also leaned heavily on Matt’s notes, so …

• Sideshow Bob (simpsons)
• HERIC Inverter Review
• Fraunhofer
• HERIC inverter
• Dave’s video about the CH32V003
• Charles episode
• Altium is increasing the price of their product (by 2x??)
• HITECH compiler fr…

Check out the Circuit Break Podcast for show notes

• Parker Dillman
• Stephen Kraig
• James Lewis

Welcome Petr Dvorak of Beny Devices

• A to Z book about KiCad
• fancygit
• lazygit
• gitlol
• Customer types
• Brno – 30% of electron microscopes
• What is changing in electron microscopes? Higher voltage, no no…

Welcome back, CNLohr!

• CNLohr was on the last episode talking about the CH32V003 part and the CH32V003fun library
• Charlieplexed errings
• Fast iteration
• Lohr-a…LoRa…get it?
• LoRa

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• Sickness
• Starliner scrub
• Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing
• Toolkit for flying
• Search industry
• A380
• EUV in semiconductors
• EV vs PHEV vs ICE
• Tesla sending emails to suppliers after la…

• Analog Cochlear Detectors
• Voyager I is back online 
• Sustaining engineering
• Bobiverse books
• Chandra telescope
• Embedded World
• Embedded World US in October
• Trade shows in US
• Travel budgets
• Z80 obsolet…

• Chris will be at Embedded World 24 next week
• Bluetooth standard messages like HT, HR
• Early bluetooth devices (were terrible)
• WiBree (?)
• Sequans deal with Renesas fell apart
• There was a Sequans mod…

Welcome Carl Bugeja!

• Carl lives and works in Malta
• He got started with robotics at his university
• Carl recently announced he would be launching a new company
• The company is called Microbots and th…

• Chris got a Chevy Bolt (2023 1LT) The model has since been discontinued
• 11 kW charging using a level 2 charger
• Flappy paddle to recapture battery (instead of the brake)
• Ioniq 5/6
• Aptera
• Marques Bro…