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#668 – 50.0000 Ohms Mistakes in house repair for partners Architectural Lighting Power quality Repairing a $4500 DAC Invisible computers Cal Newport on AI AI shortform USB C Spec “50.0000 ohms” HDMI Layout guide (ADI) Bit Error Rate Fake Dave Hackers theamphour.com/668-50-0000-oh…

Petr Dvorak is a freelance PCB designer and a prolific sharer of knowledge on LInkedIn. He joins Chris to discuss electronic microscopes, traveling to Shenzhen, revision control, KiCad (of course), and much more! buff.ly/4cbGVmS

#669 – Freelance PCB Design with Petr Dvorak youtube.com/watch?v=fMdQMJ…

Dave and Chris talk about the letdown of signing an NDA and seeing "behind the curtain". Also inverters, programming tools, pricing changes at Altium, and old school web stuff. buff.ly/3RG1CzM

This week Matthew Venn returns to talk about the successes (and learnings) from runs of @TinyTapeout, a shared project service sitting on top of a multi product wafer service. Matt also talks about a forthcoming analog ASIC design class on Zero to Asic buff.ly/3W8Z0Ny

This week bitluni joins Chris on The Amp Hour to discuss FPGAs, ESP32 projects, custom silicon, building around memes, and continually challenging yourself to learn something new. buff.ly/3WpN6Pr

This week Dave and Chris talk about #meshtastic (a meshing layer on top of LoRa), new scope specs, cellular modems, power, and a new Embedded Conference in the US (#EWNA). buff.ly/3XEqI3V

Katerina Galitskaya is a Senior Antenna Engineer who is currently designing base station antennas. She joins Chris to talk about simulating, visualizing, and thinking about the design of antennas. Listen for everyday design & interesting antenna designs buff.ly/3N6rMsz

Dan Esparon from Inovor Technologies in South Australia joins Dave to discuss all about the engineering of designing and launching satellites! theamphour.com/679-satellite-…

JOB (REMOTE): The The Amp Hour Podcast is in need of a new audio editor to take the raw recorded audio from our shows and edit it into a finished audio file suitable for podcasting. Shows are usually an hour long with two people, but can be longer or more complicated. All the usual stuff

When you run across images of super compact #hardware or thermal simulations of a #PCB, there's a decent chance you've run across Lukas Henkel We talked #oshw products like the PiMX8 (#cm4 replacement) and their forthcoming SIP with Thintronics. buff.ly/3CiUunR

Chris and Dave discuss updated house wiring, making smart relays capable of switching power, how to design a linear supply, and using AI tools to help troubleshoot code (but NOT layout) buff.ly/3AVcmoI

I have a 3 hour talk with the legendary Lee Felsenstein. Should I release the full 3hrs on The Amp Hour, or a bit shorter version that leaves out the Berkeley Free Speech and Community Memory stuff, and focusses more on the electronics and Osborne stuff? (maybe a bit over 2 hrs)

The Amp Hour #684 – Lee Felsenstein: The Computer Revolution & Counterculture theamphour.com/684-lee-felsen…

The #RP2350 from @RaspberryPi is a dual dual-core(#arm & #RISCV) micro with extensive peripherals. The Raspberry Pi team (James, Chris, Liam, Luke) join Chris to discuss how the chip evolved from the #RP2040, including security and low power enhancements buff.ly/3PVaoII

Dave and Chris discuss the Tandy 200, test equipment cashflow, the return of the Pebble watch, GPT trying its hand at CAD, solar output...and more buff.ly/4aUVzQ6

What happens when you take a switch matrix and allow any net (strip) on a breadboard connect to any other net? Well, really interesting things, it turns out. Chris talked to Kevin Cappucio about the Jumperless breadboard and how it all works buff.ly/3DhXZMb

Dave and Chris discuss bluetooth boards, what happens when batteries leak, new cellular capabilities in iPhones, AC flicker, old oscilloscopes, and more! theamphour.com/690-clap-on-cl…

This week @MGielda returns to the show to talk about the work @Antmicro is doing to extend hardware, firmware, and silicon design. Their new tool System Designer allows even more testing of full systems, in addition to their popular Renode framework tool. theamphour.com/691-system-des…

This week Dave and Chris discuss solar installs, wacky tariffs, peak power pricing, tiny electronics, oscilloscope triggering, and more. Also fill out our 2025 Listener Survey to be entered to win a Jumperless (OG) Breadboard! theamphour.com/692-like-a-ste…