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The Amp Hour

The Amp Hour

Hosted by David L. Jones and Chris Gammell

ScienceInterviews guests

Episodes

745

Latest episode

Aug 2026

Language

EN

About the show

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://theamphour.com/feed/

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August 5, 202655 min

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 searchable transcripts and a "pissed-old amber" SVG scope with a working focus knob--and links to merch!. They also discuss Dave's new employee, 10 cent RISC-V debuggers, and why naming your startup after an un-Googleable Australian cryptid is a bad move

July 22, 20261 hr 20 min

The Amp Hour #729 - 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 will revolutionize the automotive space and far outstrips the capabilities of LIDAR and Blobbology

July 9, 20261 hr 6 min

The Amp Hour #728 - 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 low power devices across the globe, without a data plan or a GPS module onboard.

July 2, 202654 min

The Amp Hour #727 - Boat Anchor Warehouse

June 17, 20261 hr 10 min

The Amp Hour #726 - Arduino's Invisible Touch with Massimo Banzi

Massimo Banzi is co-founder and figurehead of Arduino, the worldwide community built upon easily accessible embedded hardware. He joins Chris to talk about the design, rise, struggles, and eventual exit of the company, and what he's now doing with Supermoderno.

June 4, 202659 min

The Amp Hour 725 - The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski

Michał Zalewski (lcamtuf) is a security researcher, author, electronics enthusiast, and calculator collector. He joins Chris to talk about his new book The Secret Life of Circuits and his interest in the field of electronics and explaining things to others.

May 25, 20261 hr 5 min

The Amp Hour #724 - All Heat, No Useful Work

Dave and Chris discuss the infrastructure and massive energy demands of AI data centers, injecting power through a programming header, Linux changes, and dogfooding your own projects.

May 7, 20261 hr 10 min

The Amp Hour #723 - BeagleBoard's Back with Jason Kridner

April 23, 20261 hr 9 min

The Amp Hour #722 - AI Tooling with Matt Liberty and Luke Beno

April 9, 202659 min

The Amp Hour #721 - Chip Design for Fun (and Waffles) with Julia Desmazes

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