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 712 episodes available.

The Amp Hour episodes:

March 01, 2011 The Amp Hour #32 — The Commercial Competitor Commencement
WotW Dino (who now has a uStream channel for his workshop) Modular bench Bench with dresser drawers Bench with old Tek scope! Mitch (@mitpatterson) Bench with etching tools laid out Panorama of home lab Shoutouts DigiKey and Electronic Design Magazine have a new show! Rants DigiKey and Electronic Design Magazine have a new show! We [...]
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1h 5min
February 23, 2011 The Amp Hour #31 — Publish Popular Parts Please!
Chris apologizes for the poor audio quality on his end, it was a new setup (again) while the bench is being finished. What's your favorite movie about engineering? Piggybacking on an article by Bill Schewber article from EEtimes. Bjork pulls apart a TV and tells us about it. WTF. "You shouldn't let poets lie to [...]
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1h 4min
February 16, 2011 The Amp Hour #30 — Funding Fusion Is Not Futile
WOTW Kibi (a WOTW alum!) send in pictures of a past bench! And a past beefy power amplifier! Jeremy Blum (@sciguy14) submitted pictures of his work workbench on his personal site! Great toaster SMT reflow! Not submitted, but Steve Liebson did a video interview with Jim Williams and we get to see Jim's lab. Events [...]
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1h 4min
February 09, 2011 The Amp Hour #29 — DJ and Jazzy Jeff
This week on The Amp Hour, Dave and Mightyohm Jeff Keyzer join forces to talk about: Jeri was naughty and got thrown out of the Designcon conference! Workbench of the Week from SnakeBite & Jeff's buddy Tony The new one-stop EE shop, EEweb.com Jeff rants about Eagle and the lack of IPC footrints Forest Mims [...]
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1h 3min
February 02, 2011 The Amp Hour #28 — Bowie and The Brown Note
The 555 contest continues onward! Everyone is getting excited! Dave's classic 1976 vintage Signetics 555 timer chip (which he destroyed! RIP). Can anyone beat it? WOTW William L-shaped bench photos Laurence White Photo tour of the workshop Mr. J from Boston Home workbench Radio gear Rants Dave doesn't like how all those cupcakes he's sending [...]
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1h 6min
January 25, 2011 The Amp Hour #27 — The Green Pen Hornswoggle
Shoutouts Thanks to Mitch (@mitpatterson) for linking to us from his site! Alexander linked here too and asked about what to do when family and friends might not be interested in hearing about your latest project. Octopart now indexes Digikey as well! Electronics porn! Hi res photos of an old Microchip part. Light can get [...]
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1h 4min
January 18, 2011 The Amp Hour #26 — The Ben & Jeri Show
WOTW None! C'mon people! But we did hear that some people have been building benches, such as John S. Can't wait to see them! Chris is planning a new bench as well! And has been doodling in Google Sketchup to get an idea of what he wants: View from the front From afar with the [...]
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1h 4min
January 11, 2011 The Amp Hour #25 — The NASA Nostalgia
. WotW JP Wack from Santiago, Chile Bench with awesome labels! Other work Troy Rank from Rochester, NY Bench page Stynus from Belgium Project page (tons'o'projects!) Workbenches And workbenches with Stynus in the picture Followup The 6502 was laid out by hand by one person! A new study out found that ASUS was the most [...]
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1h 4min
January 05, 2011 The Amp Hour #24 — The Detroit Debunking
. Shoutouts Sparkfun has a new "grab bag" program for all their pick and place cast off parts. Could be some good pickins! Rants Why does the IEEE still charge membership fees to unemployed engineers? And why does the cutoff for waiving the fee occur at 13k(and below)? Is that a realistic point at which [...]
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1h 3min
December 29, 2010 The Amp Hour #23 — The Innovation Speculation
. WotW Adam C of Onecircuit.com submitted the first workbench of the week submission by video! Bob of Ambientsensors.com took a picture of his bench with his pup, including a signed HP 300A! Lieven Blancke of Belgium submitted two pictures of his 7 year old maker son at their bench. Also included a picture of [...]
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1h 5min

FAQs about The Amp Hour:

How many episodes does The Amp Hour have?

The podcast currently has 712 episodes available.