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.

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December 22, 2010 The Amp Hour #22 — The Hard Work Hypothesis
We wanted to try out a title similar to the style of The Big Bang Theory...we love it! Shoutout Another Ham-like video podcast called Amateur Logic. We like it! Thanks to the queen of science videos (Jeri) for the link! Dave got scooped! Afrotechmods did an AWESOME video about ultracaps. He arc welded a coin! [...]
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1h 2min
December 15, 2010 The Amp Hour #21 — More Freeagle, More Benches and More Engineers on Twitter
. Seasonal What is on your electronics list for the holidays? Dave and Chris both need new chairs for their labs WOTW Henrik from Oslo, Norway Bench setup and explanation. Sylvain from Belgium Bench setup for RF projects. David from Portland Portable bench setup. Taking your electronics on the road is impressive! Mike from the [...]
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1h 3min
December 07, 2010 The Amp Hour #20 — Military Electronics and The Free Eagle (Freagle) Campaign
Our first WOTWs! Mike, who works at Ascot TV in Christchurch New Zealand! More info about Mike's is here. Dave likes the Bob Parker ESR meter. David work at Delta-Q Technologies in Vancouver, Canada. More info about David is here (as are many more pictures!). David plans on doing something similar to the Electric Delorean [...]
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1h 10min
November 30, 2010 The Amp Hour #19 — CAD programs, Systems Design and Renewable Energy
Shoutouts Rich Hoeg of The Northstar Nerd, linked to us from his podcast page! Be sure to check out the others on there! To Google Sketchup! For offering electro-nerds the opportunity to do 3D modeling (easily!). They have a new contest in conjunction with Ponoko (thanks to @dustynrobots for the link). Check it out if [...]
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1h 2min
November 23, 2010 The Amp Hour #18 — Transistor Types and Where To Get Electronic Gear
Shoutouts Dave's $50 shootout is cited in Adafruit now carrying the Extech meter. Cool! There's also mention of it on extech site. NPR did a piece covering hackerspaces. Likely many have heard about it , but it's good coverage of the burgeoning trend. All About Circuits is a great resource if you've never seen it. [...]
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1h 3min
November 16, 2010 The Amp Hour #17 — EE Movies, Part Rants and SPICE.
Links! Shoutouts Solder Smoke is back! Bill is out in the HAM shack, broadcasting podcasts for all. Go catch the latest one! A podcast about DIY Drones, check it out and hear the most about the developing industry of unmanned personal drones! Rants Chris loves the Webench tool from National Semiconductor...he just wishes there was [...]
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1h 2min
November 09, 2010 The Amp Hour #16 — LED Designs, Last Minute Designs and Board Designs
After an admittedly non-technical episode last week, we had an abundance of tech topics this week. So why keep writing when we can get to the links and you can get to listening! Shoutouts Troy Rank has a new show about e-bikes. Looking forward to hearing about the electronics in them! The 555 timer is [...]
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1h 3min
November 02, 2010 The Amp Hour #15 — Analog Components, First Person Flying and Idea Ownership
Not as many links this week but the usual hour's worth of talking. We even managed to work in a comment or two about open hareware development (even though we promised not to previously). On to the links! Shoutouts There's a documentary about hacker/maker spaces that needs your help! Help fund it at Kickstarter! Dave's [...]
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1h 1min
October 27, 2010 The Amp Hour #14 — China, Entrepreneurs and Blue Collar Reality
Dave made it home safe and sound! We're glad to have him back and appreciate Jeff from MightyOhm stepping up to the plate in his absence. This week we jumped right past the videos Dave plans on posting and into talking about current events, so why don't we do the same with the links? Shoutouts! [...]
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1h 5min
October 22, 2010 The Amp Hour #13 — Chips And Fabs And Garages
Holy YouTube clips, Batman! We have tons of clips this week. Me and our special guest were talking about lots of stuff and it turns out many of them were video based. We can't wait to see many of Dave's videos, he's still traveling around and is still working on editing and uploading many of [...]
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FAQs about The Amp Hour:

How many episodes does The Amp Hour have?

The podcast currently has 712 episodes available.