The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

By The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)

A weekly podcast about the electronics industry. Occasional guests. Lots of laughs.... more

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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast episodes:

April 25, 2024#665 – Really long needle nose pliers
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 obsolete notice
Rabbit instruction set
Dave trying out the Jumperless breadboard (lights up)
Uri
Robert Nelson
Bluetooth
Sigrok
Zephyr LLEXT
ZMK
...more
1h 10min
April 04, 2024#664 – Simulating doors falling off
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 modem on the PyCom FiPy
The low power ISM network Chris couldn’t remember was SigFox
Synopsis acquired Ansys (back in January)
Here comes the flood of Plugin Hybrids
Dave’s sick car – 2010 Nissan dualis – Second channel
New Espressif ESP32-P4 is getting ready to release
Bitluni makes custom silicon (spoilers!)
Past guest Pete Bevelaqua has a new Kickstarter where he’s passing power through a window (up to 30 mm thick)
Top 10 Hobby Components (PartsBox) – submitted by former guest Jan Rychter
Top 5 transistor video
New BealgleBoard.org board isn’t in the BeagleBone form factor
...more
1h 4min
March 26, 2024#663 – Motors on PCBs with Carl Bugeja
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 they will sell components and kits for building similar projects to what Carl shows on his channel
BigHero6 reference
https://microbots.io/products/flatflap
Max PCB temp is 130C
Driven by series resistance of coil
Tg value of PCBs
A circuit that can solder itself
How hot can a Flex PCB get?
Batch vs raster
Do you math?
Tryng to get the perfect temperatures and dealing with flex materials
Dealing with manufacturing differnces
Scanning PCB Coils with X-Rays
Sending PCB specs
Incoming inspection and testing
Testing boards with resistance
Time flap produce
User testing
Drive circuits – How do you evaluate?
Don’t build your own H Bridge
Optimizing for size
Is Carl looking for other features?
Building libraries for driver
Foldable 4 wheeled robot , an all one PCB
ESP32-C3, connected to playstation remote
Boston Dynamics uncanny valley
Gathering on social
Top down vs bottom up (start at the top)
Prior to YouTube, Carl worked at a startup
Drones – 2 prop
Bluetooth tags
Later he moved to the automotive industry
Concept vehicles
Software
What’s in Malta?
Building a remote electronics business
Remote actuators on a PCB
Microbots Flexar Driver
Driving down the price per cell
Similar to how they drove down the cost of LCD displays
Pixel, voxel, moxel, maxel?
Flipdots
PCB Actuation
Find Carl on YouTube and Instagram, and check out his work on the new Microbots site!
...more
57min
March 20, 2024#662 – The non-Stinky Car
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 Brownlee reviews the Prius
V2G is avaialble as a software upgrade to the Nissan Leaf
2nd channel abs bypass
Microbit v2
Robot video with Huxley
Software updates on a door handle
Chris is playing around with 20V DeWalt batteries
Battery fast charger schematic
Bosch adapter
Vmount batteries, as explained by Caleb of DSLR Video Shooter
Sony batteries
Dave’s tutorial on charging
Chris might try out OnShape
If you’re interested in helping model some battery stuff (or know someone who can), please email [email protected]
Sony battery lab hack
...more
1h 7min
March 11, 2024#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 software and stuff
Order some of the boards Pallav created on Evelta
India ecosystem for hw
India industry
CAPUF team size
Pallav shares teardowns on YouTube
reducing complexity
Reviewing customer designs and removing 40%
RP2040 in usb debuggers
Efficiency consulting
Over indexing on form and fit during rev 1
Troubleshoot: Joulescope / Saleae / Static analyzer
Pallav has a page where he tracks AI tools for PCB creation
There’s another page where he tracks AI modules / chips
DevRel as a service
Nordic
Check out Capuf.in for more info on Pallav’s consulting or reach out via email
...more
1h 4min
March 05, 2024#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
Startups in Germany (can any German listeners verify?)
Diyode mag is shutting down
KiCad 8 was released! James Lewis did a good overview video
SPICE in CAD
Composite amplifier
Zephyr 3.6 release
Altera
...more
1h 7min
February 20, 2024#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
protel99
Altium Buys Morfik in 2010
Nick booted out
After the reorg, the stock steadily grew
You can watch the Renesas/Altium announcement on Zoom
There is also a slide deck available
Dave linked an article from the financial press in Austrailia
Zuken
Altera is apparently spinning back out
Steve Liebsen on The Amp Hour
Intel is getting a $10B chunk of the CHIPS act money
Steve Sanghi (Microchip) discussed the act when he was on the show
Synergy flavored milk
Other properties we forgot were part of Altium:
Circuit Studio
Upverter (formerly on the show!)
Gumstix
Autotrax – Taylor’s version (DEX PCB just…took the name?)
...more
1h 14min
February 13, 2024#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 a CH32V003 standalone programmer
nRF24
Low cost modules Chris bought on Amazon
Samy Kamkar on the show
Samy talk about balloons
Drone shows
Time difference of distances
Dave’s video about HP atomic clocks
XKCD Radiation Dose Chart
DTCXO
In the Bond movies they’re not nerds
LCD and fonts
AI pin
Vision Pro
iFixit teardown
Chris will be at Embedded World again this year, come say hi!
...more
1h 8min
February 05, 2024#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 home to not require an outside connection, which is crucial to breaking free of large cloud providers.
Chris just got a Zigbee dongle and switched outlet working in under a minute on HA
Automation and triggers
Users share their automation routines on the HA subreddit
mmwave detecting heartbeat
What is esphome?
Abstraction / using YAML for business logic
Deciding when to go custom
Keith got started doing a PR for an IR remote
Nixie clocks
Boldport / Saar
Getting hooked on SMT builds
Keith made an STM32 based Tube Clock that Chris was very impressed by at a Chicago meetup
Keith reworked the sensing for his HVAC by fusing multiple custom sensor boards
Presence sensor – mmwave + IR sensor
Geodesic dome
Tiny fresnel lenses on low cost PIR sensors
Fixing thermostat in apt
Creating a network of temp sensors and weighing
SRE = site reliability engineer
Nabu Casa cloud service
The year of the voice
Home assistant YouTube
Hardware: Blue, yellow, green
How often are people reprogramming their devices
ESPhome discord
ESPhome.io
See devices that can be reprogrammed to work with ESPhome
Reddits
ESPhome
Homeassistant
...more
1h 24min
January 22, 2024#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
Dreamweaver
Chris recommends buying a foldable lightbox (Light this)
Chris’s blog post when he was going to meet Dave for the first time
Dehumidifiers are raising money based on ridiculous hype
Spec Sheet for Genesis Systems
Chris just got a chest freezer, was surprised at the low energy needs
Power charges
Texas grid article on NYT after recent deep freeze
Energy mix in NC
Beta voltaic
Used for aerospace
Bantam Tools (Bre Pettis) acquires Evil Mad Scientist (Lenore, Windell)
Vulnerabilities in the ESP32 RISC V parts
Will people make tools to make it easier to crack into something, like discussoned the CAN episode with Ken Tindell
Dave might get a free pick and place, the TVM920
Video about the 1980s “drink robots”
Chris’s daughter is really into robots and gondolas
Pool robots videos on EEVblog2
...more
1h 15min

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