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
#661 – Blogging Electronics with Pallav Aggarwal
Welcome Pallav Aggarwal of CAPUF Embedded!
- Chris enjoyed Pallav’s series on learning the ch32v003 – fun vs HAL
- Ambiq Apollo
- Decision trees when considering hardware vs firmware
- Expensive to do sof…
#660 – My Toothbrush Is Broadcasting
- Promise of smart home
- Electronic keypad
- Keyfob
- Proxmark
- Oral B bluetooth toothbrush
- Braun toothbrush teardown
- Solar road shutdown
- Smart mains socket tester
- ch32v003 testing success
- Samy keylogger
- …
#659 – Altium…Acquired!
- Renesas buying Altium
- Altium bought Octopart in 2017
- Tasking debugger
- Cloud focus after reorg
- History of Protel / Altium – started in 1985 by Nick Martin
- Turbo Pascal
- CAD tool for windows in 90s
- pr…
#658 – Uncle Al’s Eating Garbage Again
- AI tools for recording
- 32 bit recording
- Pool robot
- Home assistant
- Power points in the ceiling in Dave’s office park
- CH32V003 board
- CNLohr episode
- rv003usb library
- Mike Harrison doing a video about …
#657 – Automating the Home with Keith Burzinski
Welcome Keith Burzinski of Nabu Casa and the ESPhome project!
- Nabu Casa is a commercial venture that supports the open source Home Assistant (HA) project
- Hardware
- Home assistant allows your smart h…
#656 – Pneumatic Tubes, Straight To The Home
- Dave just drove 4500 km / ~ 2800 miles
- Dumpster room tier on Patreon?
- Hyperloop failure
- Florida train video (Wendover)
- Pipedream
- Series of tubes
- Guam capsize
- Hugo site builder, based on Go
- Dreamwea…
#655 – The Twelfth Day of Keyzermas
Welcome back Jeff Keyzer of Mightyohm
- Orthodox Keyzermas
- Twelfth Day of Keyzermas
- Jeff has been taking care of his ailing cat for the past years and learned a lot about administering medicine
- RF
- 87…
#654 – Pseudo Code…Pseudo Good
- CES is coming up and there’s good attendance as one of the last remaining large electronic shows in the US
- Tradeshow are all bunched up in April for Chris in 2024, specifically Embedded World and E…
#653 – Benjamin Cabé Nose Zephyr
Welcome Benjamin Cabé of The Zephyr Project!
- Benjamin is the developer advocate at The Zephyr Project, which is both a Real Time Operating System and an ecosystem (or almost like a “distro”, rather…
#652 – For a couple weeks there…
- You may have noted a few weeks off in September…Chris was busy with a new kiddo!
- Starship launch was awesome, but Blue Origin might beat them to market?
- Chris has been troubleshooting some boards h…
#651 – Learning Computing with Jeff Geerling
Welcome Jeff Geerling of the Jeff Geerling YouTube Channel!
- Jeff sounds so calm one his videos because he records after the kids are in bed
- He started working with dad at the radio station when the…
#650 – Accessible ASICs with Andreas Olofsson
Welcome back, Andreas Olofsson of ZeroASIC!
- Andreas was on the show back in 2015 (ep 254) talking about the Parallela, a crowdfunded parallel calcuation board by his then-company Adapteva
- What is e…
#649 – History of the Cathode Ray Tube with Kathy Joseph
- Kathy Joseph from Kathy Loves Physics joins Dave on The Amp Hour to discuss history and physics. They end up discussing the intricate history of the development of the Cathode Ray Tube.
- Read Kath…
#648 – The RP1 and beyond with the Raspberry Pi Hardware team
Welcome back James Adams and Liam Fraser
- The RP1 is the new custom silicon on the Raspberry Pi 5 that is the helper chip to the Broadcom part onboard
- The HW team was last on the show in 2021 talki…
#647 – Dave hanging with Fran Blanche
Dave hangs out with Fran Blanche for her 4th appearance on the show. Space, Youtubing, tube testing, storage nightmares, and oopsies.