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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)

A weekly podcast about the electronics industry. Occasional guests. Lots of laughs.

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#711 – Medical Electronics Education with Mark Palmeri

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2025/12/22

Dr Mark Palmeri is a professor at Duke University in the Biomedical Engineering (BME) field. He joins Chris to talk about using open tools (KiCad, ngspice, Zephyr, Jupyter notebooks, Python) to build educational resources and how he shares those courses with the world outside of Duke. He also walks through the Tympanometer project, built with Duke BME Design Fellows.

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#710 – Tugging on the Nerd Heartstring

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2025/12/06

Dave and Chris are back after a long vacation absence to talk about high end events, new scopes, fast board assembly, and nerds nostalgic for the sci fi future that never was.

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1:05:09

#708 – All the Connectors with Davide Andrea

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2025/11/03

Davide Andrea is the author of The Electronic Connector Book and Principal of Elithion, a company that designs Battery Management System. He joins Chris to talk about the wide and wonderful world of connectors.

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#707 – Welding with an HDMI Cable

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2025/10/28

This week Dave and Chris discuss test equipment, the Arduino acquisition, Zephyr, Altium pricing, private equity owning YouTube channels, audio circuits, and more!

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1:04:25

#706 – Leading Edge Analog with Joren Vaes

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2025/10/18

Joren Vaes is a design engineer at SOFICS working on simulating and delivering analog IP blocks on leading edge nodes like the 2 nm node from TSMC. Listen to how they bend physics to their will to make the chips that power our modern electronics.

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#704 – Applied Embedded Electronics with Jerry Twomey

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2025/10/03

Jerry Twomey, author of Applied Embedded Electronics, joins Chris to talk about how to build more reliable hardware when there are embedded components involved. And these days, there are almost always embedded components involved.

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1:06:01

#702 – Test Point Accupuncture

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2025/09/15

Dave and Chris discuss solar, nuclear, making new injection molds from old ones (or not), and how to probe poorly placed test points with tiny needles.

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1:30:55

#701 – Electric Propulsion with Todd Bailey

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2025/08/22

Todd Bailey has been busy in the 11 years since he was last on the show. He has designed submarine sonar and many different pieces of space electronics, the latest being a hall effect thruster that uses solid propellant for his now sold company Starlight Engines.

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1:15:18

#700 – Beware of the Overachievers

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2025/08/07

Dave and Chris record after a long break between episodes together and discuss new electronics designs they're working on, solar and battery installations, dealing with tariffs, and building at JLC.

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1:23:37

#699 – CircuitHub, 12 Years Later with Andrew Seddon

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2025/08/01

Andrew Seddon, founder and CEO of CircuitHub, joins Chris to talk about how CircuitHub has changed over the past 12 years as a startup and how they are continuing to push the boundaries of high mix domestic electronics manufacturing.

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1:07:16

#698 – Hardware Security with Matt Brown

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2025/07/17

Matt Brown is a hardware and IoT security researcher. He joins Chris to talk about best practices for securing hardware that talks to the internet and share stories of products that didn't pass muster.

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1:15:13

#695 – Making The Invisible, Visible with Sam Aldhaher

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2025/06/04

Sam Aldhaher is a power engineer and 3D graphic artist, his Blender visualizations have helped many people understand how RF flows in a variety of circuits. Sam joins Chris to talk about how to get started in Blender and the variety of tools available once you do.

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1:11:34

#694 – Voltage, Vibes, and VOCs

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2025/05/22

In this episode, Dave and Chris cover environmental monitoring, trade shows, manufacturing, tariffs, new test equipment, and AI coding.

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#692 – Like a steam engine in your house

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2025/04/15

In this episode Dave and Chris discuss solar installs, wacky tariffs, peak power pricing, tiny electronics, oscilloscope triggering, and more.

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1:02:15

#690 – Clap on, clap off, lights flicker

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2025/03/12

Dave and Chris discuss bluetooth boards, what happens when batteries leak, new cellular capabilities in iPhones, AC flicker, old oscilloscopes, and more!

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#687 – The RP2350 with the Raspberry Pi Team

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2025/01/28

The RP2350 from Raspberry Pi is a dual dual-core (Cortex-M33 and Hazard 3 RISC V) microcontroller with extensive peripherals. Some of the Raspberry Pi team (James Adams, Chris Boross, Liam Fraser, Luke Wren) join Chris to discuss how the chip evolved from the RP2040, including interesting security and lower power enhancements.

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#686 – A Benchtop Pick and Place with Stephen Hawes

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2025/01/21

Stephen Hawes started Opulo, a company that builds the Lumen Benchtop Pick and Place. Opulo designs open source hardware and sane software for building your own PCBs in your lab.

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#685 – Data Provenance in the Home, Server, and Fab

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2024/12/23

This week Chris and Dave discuss the changes at Intel, being in control data in your home lab, bogus copyright claims for repair videos, and more!

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#684 – Lee Felsenstein: The Computer Revolution &...

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2024/12/10

A full 3 hour discussion with the legendary Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1, SOL computer, VDM-1, Pennywhistle modem, and the inventor of social media.

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#682 – Your Mind Is The Tool

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2024/11/06

Chris and Dave discuss troubleshooting a dead short in a PCB, the slow march of time, retirements, whether 2 layers is sufficient on PCBs, and much more!

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