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The Amp Hour

The Amp Hour

Hosted by David L. Jones and Chris Gammell

ScienceInterviews guests

Episodes

747

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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60 recent
September 24, 20261 hr 3 min

The Amp Hour #735 - The Onio Batteryless Vision with Kjetil Meisal

September 18, 20261 hr 5 min

The Amp Hour #734 - The Walmart Greeter of Electronics

September 10, 20261 hr 6 min

The Amp Hour #733 - Perpetual Wearable Biosensing with Andy Kong

August 27, 202658 min

The Amp Hour #732 - Hands-on Physical AI with Kevin Cloutier

August 20, 20261 hr 22 min

The Amp Hour #731 - 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. They discuss why simulation is like building a pyramid of knowledge, how silk screen can completely de-tune a patch antenna, and Robert's quest to build the "IKEA of FEM solvers" so hardware developers everywhere can simulate their designs without relying on insanely expensive proprietary software.

August 5, 202655 min

The Amp Hour #730 - 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.

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