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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March 27, 2023#625 – Gremlins in the machine
Dave had alarms going off just prior to recording
SVB
There was a post for a “Prompt Engineer” paying $335K in SF
Who fixes things created with AI when they break? What if no one knows how it all works?
Coaching around learning electronics
Louis Rossman talking about rungs of the economic ladder missing
Super Troopers
ARM is considering changing how they charge for their IP (linking to Ray Ozzie’s LinkedIn post because it was how Chris learned about the article and because clicking through from LinkedIn actually lets you read the article, whereas direct linking doesn’t…for some reason)
Gordon Moore passed away between when we recorded and posted, otherwise we would have obviously mentioned it. We will discuss his life and legacy on the next show with the two of us.
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1h 2min
March 19, 2023 #624 – Design & Manufacturing Consulting with Scott Williams from Xentronics
Scott Williams from Xentronics in Melbourne joins Dave to discuss setting up and running a design and manufacturing consulting business.
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1h 7min
March 13, 2023#623 – Artisanal Crystals
Statistically less safe prototypes
Artisanal crystal
“Too good for the job”
Story about boost converters
Dave video current consumption
NGA100
Dick Smith chat
Beagle Play and Beagle Connect were recently released
Linus Tech Tips studio
mHUB moving
Fran newspaper story (still think it’s on Fran’s patreon page only)
Live/work spaces
Shipstation
Shipping with Southwest (or other airlines)
Wendover video about the logistics of cargo carriers during COVID
New RPi global shutter camera
The death of Europe’s last electronics giant (Philips)
Yes, today’s intro was done by a robot, Chris is stuck in an airport again on the way to Embedded World
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59min
March 06, 2023#622 – Building Firmware and Hardware for Trade Shows with Mike Szczys
Mike and Chris work together at Golioth, Mike agreed to join Chris this week after Chris forgot to schedule a guest because of working on demos for Embedded World 23
Mike was on TAH episode 403 at DEFCON 26 talking about Badgelife
Backlit LEDs
Mike was the Editor in Chief at Hackaday for 9 years, he was there a total of 13 years
Remoticon happened twice during the pandemic
Supercon returned in November 2022
The Zephyr Project
Mike loves manifest files (or has come to love them)
Marti Bolivar – Macrobatics
Zephyr Devicetree
FreeRTOS – Brian Amos
Zephyr The Linux Foundation
Nordic chose Zephyr as their go-to RTOS / Ecosystem (they build the Nordic Connect SDK on top of Zephyr)
Beginner content in Zephyr (check the sample and test folder in Zephyr)
Benjamin (new Zephyr DevRel) is interested in getting the Wio Terminal supported
Sensor subsystem in Zephyr
Kconfig
Zephyr shells
ESP-IDF
Mike was recently on Robert Ferenec’s YouTube channel building an IoT solution live
Command line vs IDE
VScode plugins help bridge the gapo
The Adafruit MagTag
EPaper displays often are lacking docs
Pimoroni badger
Mike created an i2c listener which uses PIO for i2c. It passes received commands up to the Micropython layer.
Marshalling
Micropython allows you to use things like Hershey font files
Jared Wolff was on the show talking about the nRF9160 feather (and Zephyr)
Find Mike on Mastodon at @[email protected]
Mike’s personal site is jumptuck.com
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1h 13min
February 27, 2023#621 – The Magic of Calipers
Dave had a protracted battle with GitHub/Lab but found a way to upload files with drag and drop
IoT Devices that have IP addresses
eInk doesn’t seem super prevalent these days in products but has advanced a long way
Repurposing grocery store displays
If you’ll be at Embedded World, Saber from PCB Arts (episode 608) will be holding an event on Wednesday 3/15 (free to attend, need to register)
Calipers
Capliper videos
Jimmie Rogers tattoo
Sam Zeloof is starting a company to fab chip fabs with Jim Keller. They have raised $15M, from OpenAI(?)
Former guests Matt Venn and Uri Shaked recently released SiliWiz. It helps students to learn how silicon transistors work (and therefore how ASICs are built)
Mike Englehardt is no longer at ADI (who acquired LT) working on LTSpice. His website says he is working on a new simulator to be released in May of this year.
Chris often defaults to Falstad simulator for easy circuits.
Dave is having ChatGPT write a program for him
Botsplaining
Past guest Andreas Spiess did a recent video about OpenMQTTGateway which helps you to listen to 433 devices with an ESP32.
KiCad 7.0 was released
The Mother of all Demos (Doug Engelbart)
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1h 8min
February 20, 2023#620 – Engineering Education with Dr Don Wilcher
Welcome, Dr Don Wilcher! He joins us right as he’s about to release a new book, M5 Stack Electronic Blueprints
He worked at Willow Run early in his career (facility now closed)
Henry Ford Community College
Larry Sears
Having joy in the courses
The Knack
John Davis joined on a previous episode to talk about Industrial machines
What is a PLC?
Relay ladder logic
Industrial Computer vs Controller
Scan loop on a PLC
XIC / XIO
A Distributed Control System (DCS) networks many controllers together
Don taught a blueprint reading class
Chris asked about why connectors are drawn the way they are
Later in his career, Don moved from the industrial space to design in cars
Wiring harness
Body controller module
CAFE laws – California Air Fuel Economy
68hc11
Wetting current for switches
CAN
Cigarette lighters in cars
Don was working on the (Jeep) Grand Cherokee
Decoding CAN with a scope
Packard electric connectors
Cars have a “shower curtain” for water in the door
Don got his PhD and switched to education
He taugh courses like
Electric Circuits 1 / 2
Intro to robotics
Automated system and diagnosis
Electronics Industrial Maintenance
Instructors putting bugs into the system to test students
PLCs still reign supreme
Arduino recently released the Opta, which is targeted at the industrial market
Don writes for Control.com
OpenPLC is software that can run on a variety of accessible platforms (like ESP32/Arduino/etc)
Industrial I/O
OpenPLC based on IEC spec (61131-3)
Different programming styles of programming
Blackhat (movie) with Chris Hemsworth
Stuxnet worm
He wrote and article about using OpenPLC with Arduino
Dr Don has a new book that was just released! The M5 stack book
Continuing Education Courses
IEEE certificate
Dr Don will be speaking at the Embedded Online conference coming up in April
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1h 16min
February 13, 2023 #619 – Super Tecmo Bug
This week Dave and Chris record during the Superbowl, but ignore sports and talk about finding bugs, creating prototypes, flash based microcontollers, carbon offsets, car wiring harnesses...and more!
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1h 11min
February 06, 2023 #618 – Refrigerators and Robots with Amitabh Shrivastava
Amitabh Shrivastava is a physicist turned engineer and a prolific maker. He joins Chris to talk about projects with portable refrigeration and soft robotics.
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1h 12min
January 30, 2023 #617 – Conference Room Innovation
This week Dave and Chris discuss interesting PCB features, testing RISC V parts, better recording set-ups, layoffs in the tech industry, solar panels, and more!
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1h 10min
January 23, 2023 #616 – Open Source Tapeout with Matthew Venn
Matthew Venn of the Zero To Asic course returns to The Amp Hour to talk about what has been happening in the world of Open Source Silicon, both the tools that make things go and the projects that people are creating.
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1h 16min

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