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#397.2 – An Interview with Gareth from Greenpeace

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Gareth from Greenpeace joins Chris at ToorCamp to talk about tracking illegal fishing and dealing with high volume spammers.

#397.1 – An Interview with Monica Houston and Alessandra Nölting

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Monica and Alessandra talk with Chris while aboard the Infinite Sloop, a sailboat on its way towards ToorCamp. This is the first of a series of mini episodes recorded from camp.

#395 – An Interview with Luke Valenty

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Luke Valenty of TinyFPGA.com joins Chris to talk about creating FPGA devices and using open source toolchains to control them.

#394 – Jeri Ellsworth and the demise of CastAR

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Jeri Ellsworth returns after a 4+ year hiatus on The Amp Hour to talk about the rise and fall of CastAR and how the company’s assets are fueling Jeri’s next enterprise.

#392 – An Interview with Matt Duff

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Matt Duff of Analog Device joins Chris to talk about analog design, explaining amplifiers via YouTube and creating webtools so that engineers can design filters (mostly) without human interaction.

#390 – An Interview with Sam Zeloof

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Sam Zeloof is making chips in his garage for fun with a homespun semiconductor fab. He tells Chris about what inspired him to learn and build and how the process works

#388 – An Interview with Earl Sharpe and Collin Kidder

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Earl Sharpe and Collin Kidder of Macchina join Chris to talk about automotive electronics, car hacking, how an ECU works and why you might want to consider tinkering under the hood of your car.

#385 – An Interview with John Davis

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This week John Davis joins Chris to talk about the crossover into sales and designing electronics for the industrial market. John also describes the wide range of industrial customers he works with every day.

#383 – An Interview with Scott Shawcroft

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Chris talks with Scott Shawcroft who works at Adafruit on CircuitPython. He helped to port MicroPython to the SAMD21 chipset and discusses the details of getting a language working on a new platform, including how to use debuggers.

#381 – An Interview with Derek Kozel

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Derek Kozel of Ettus Research and the GNU Radio foundation joins Chris to talk about software defined radio, doing more in the amateur space with digital modes and peeking into the spectrum.

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