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 729 episodes available.

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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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October 15, 2010 The Amp Hour #12 — Dave Is Back And Blogging!
Dave is back! And blogging from a hotel room, just like Chris did in episode 9 of the Amp Hour. He has lots of great videos he made at Renesas Dev Con and some good stories and experiences. On to the links! Shout outs! Thanks to Nathan from the Sober Newt for linking here! Thanks [...]
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1h 2min
October 07, 2010 The Amp Hour #11 — Ardui…no Dave This Week?
NOTE: I apologize about the sound quality on this recording. Thanks to the Zoom H1 autogain (very bad thing) and recording in a cubby like desk at my house (nearly as bad as the autogain) I sound like a mouth breathing, key pounding cubby troll. I'm very sorry and I tried to fix it best [...]
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1h 4min
September 28, 2010 The Amp Hour #10 — Open Hardware and Self Publishing
Most of this week's discussion revolved around open hardware. The summit definitely provided some interesting conversation points, explained below. If we missed any links, please leave them in the comments! Open hardware The open hardware summit was awesome! (writing for EEtimes at ESC Boston was cool too!) Videos aren't all online yet but Limor Fried's [...]
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1h 6min

FAQs about The Amp Hour:

How many episodes does The Amp Hour have?

The podcast currently has 729 episodes available.