The Onio Batteryless Vision with Kjetil Meisal
Kjetil Meisal, CEO and co-founder of Norwegian semiconductor startup ONiO, joins Chris to discuss the development of ONiO.zero, a revolution...
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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
A weekly podcast about the electronics industry. Occasional guests. Lots of laughs.
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The Walmart Greeter of Electronics
Dave and Chris catch up on the shift toward practical hands-on engineering education at universities, open-source robotics, calculator foren...
Perpetual Wearable Biosensing with Andy Kong
Andy Kong is creating Chargerless, a pre-seed wearable biometric device that runs on 1 minute of sunshine per day. He joins Chris to talk ab...
Hands-on Physical AI with Kevin Cloutier
Kevin Cloutier is the North American Lead for Physical AI at a global engineering consulting firm and a computer engineer who is passionate...
E&M Reality Emerges with Robert Fennis
Robert Fennis joins Chris to demystify the black magic of RF and talk about his open-source, Python-based 3D electromagnetic solver, EMerge....
The Focus Knob Works
Dave and Chris celebrate 16 years of the show (1st episode was August 10th, 2010) by launching a brand-new static website featuring searchab...
The Terahertz Frontier with Greg Charvat of Teradar
Dr Greg Charvat, CTO and co-founder of Teradar, joins Chris for a 5th appearance on The Amp Hour to talk about how terahertz frequency radar...
Space Age Bluetooth with Alex Haro
Alex Haro, CEO of Hubble, joins Chris to talk about building a network of terrestrial and space (!) based Bluetooth infrastructure to track...
Boat Anchor Warehouse
Dave and Chris discuss a massive “boat anchor” warehouse clearance, 0201 board assembly, Texas Instruments’ stealthy datasheet updates for c...
#726 – Arduino’s Invisible Touch with Massimo Banzi
Welcome, Massimo Banzi of SuperModerno and co-founder of Arduino Introduction and SuperModerno: Massimo introduces himself as a “frien...
#725 – The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski
Welcome Michał Zalewski, AKA lcamtuf ! The lcamtuf Substack is where Michał is writing most these days Chris first found and geeked out abou...
#724 – All Heat, No Useful Work
Chris just got back from a work trip to Madrid He also got to hang out with Matt Venn (and coworker Mike Szczys) in Valencia Dave has a new...
#723 – BeagleBoard’s Back with Jason Kridner
Welcome back, Jason Kridner! Jason has previously been on the show Episode 59 (!) Episode 378 alongside Robert Nelson The BeagleY AI was the...
#722 – AI Tooling with Matt Liberty and Luke Beno
Past guests Matt Liberty (Joulescope) and Luke Beno (Werewolf.us) join Chris to talk through using AI tooling for small businesses in the ha...
#721 – Chip Design for Fun (and Waffles) with Julia Desmazes
Julia Desmazes joins Chris to discuss designing chips for fun and getting an entire design done in 2 weeks to make a tapeout deadline. Julia...
#720 – Hyper Growth and OpenClaw Interns
Dave and Chris discuss Golioth getting acquired by Canonical (makers of Ubuntu), trying out OpenClaw in the lab, changes to space plans, big...
#719 – Inventing the Power MOSFET with Alex Lidow
Alex is founder and CEO of Efficient Power Conversion, a leading manufacturer of GaN MOSFET's. Alex is also the inventor of the original Pow...
#718 – Layout Review with Zachariah Peterson
Zachariah Peterson joins Chris to discuss doing PCB layout and creating content for engineers looking to learn more about how to build their...
#717 – Back on the road in ’26
This week we talked about upcoming travel, solid state transformers, battery testing, new small circuit boards, and a bunch more.
#716 – Electronics Manufacturing History with David Ray
David Ray joins Dave to talk about the history of electronics manufacturing and how he has built a high mix manufacturing business while reg...