The Amp Hour

By David L. Jones and Chris Gammell

An off-the-cuff radio show and podcast for electronics enthusiasts and professionals. Note: this is the "show only" version of the feed. To see the show notes, check out the main podcast feed: https:/... more

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The podcast currently has 736 episodes available.

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August 16, 2011 The Amp Hour #56 — Open Orbific Oratiuncle
Another week of bouncing from topic to topic. This week included robots, entrepreneurs, OSHW, FPAAs, Ecology and LEDs! Whoo, that's a lotta stuff! Elon Musk is an enviable entrepreneur and engineer. Great video piece on him on Bloomberg.com. Google buys the Motorola handset business for $12.5 billion. Chris thought it was for access [...]
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1h 7min
August 09, 2011 The Amp Hour #55 — Shonky Stiver Stultiloquence
Just when you thought the names of episodes couldn't get any weirder... US economy seems to be diving again, hopefully it will not seriously impact the electronics industry. If it does, Chris thinks startups will be even more reliant on Angel Investors like Paul Buchheit (creator of Gmail) Is DIY finally going mainstream, [...]
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1h 6min
August 02, 2011 The Amp Hour #54 — Embedded Elchee Epexegesis
Embedded industry maven and prolific writer, Jack Ganssle, joins us on The Amp Hour this week. Dave called Chris a "young whippersnapper" (actually "young feller", but the same sentiment) in writing about Jeri's chip making. A former colleague of Jack's maintained that spec's for computers were driven by the porn industry and how much [...]
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1h 7min
July 26, 2011 The Amp Hour #53 — Biarchy Birthday Bavardage
Happy Birthday to us! One year in the bag! Thanks for all of our wonderful listeners! From the EEVBlog forums, user "dics" is listening to The Amp Hour on a breadboard! Awesome! Tech Shop SF is matching donations on a new campaign to spread the word of Hacker/Makerspaces in the community. Chris's alma [...]
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1h 8min
July 19, 2011 The Amp Hour #52 — Carnassial Chip Chemicals
Our friend and previous guest, Jeri Ellsworth, returned to the show to talk about her latest projects. And holy wow, they are prettygreat! Jeri discusses the process of making transistors in your home using household chemicals, silicon wafers and a small kiln or oven. More info on her process of making the chips [...]
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1h 9min
July 12, 2011 The Amp Hour #51 — Vafrous Video Vaniloquence
Our initial try of Google Plus "Hangouts"! Hopefully all the interuptions and the concentration on a new medium didn't interrupt our usual shabby quality of podcast (thereby downgrading our rating to "godawful"). We had fun and hopefully will be able to use it to pull in guests in an easier way and somehow [...]
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1h 7min
July 05, 2011 The Amp Hour #50 — Callow Cough Coverups
What would be the best way to create a "cough switch" or "kill switch" for a USB based podcasting microphone? EMSL created an AWESOME 555 Timer Footstool. Such a great replica! Design Spark corrected us on what their new plugin does, in relation to Google Sketchup. Dave is wondering what kind of criteria to [...]
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1h 10min
June 28, 2011 The Amp Hour #49 — Unusual Usenet Usurpation
This week focused more on electronics! Think we talk about something too much or too little? Let us know in the comments! Chris finally got a chair and wowsa does it make a difference! Finding parts online can be tough with distractions, apparently extended internet use can affect the brain. What's a datasheet [...]
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1h 6min
June 21, 2011 The Amp Hour #48 — Posthumous Pease Porridge
Though it's been a sad week for the field of analog engineering, we want to honor Bob Pease and Jim Williams' passing. They were wonderful educators, engineers and people and we felt honored to even talk about them on the show. Please share any comments you might have about either of these two great [...]
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1h 5min
June 15, 2011 The Amp Hour #47 — The Mothership Manifesto
Very sad news, Jim Williams of LTC analog fame has suddenly passed away The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition is the Duke Nukem Forever of the electronics industry. Jeff reminisces about his old Commodore Amiga and mentions the Amiga on an FPGA, and Dave talks about Jamma consoles. Agilent impress with their response to the [...]
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1h 12min

FAQs about The Amp Hour:

How many episodes does The Amp Hour have?

The podcast currently has 736 episodes available.