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#453 – Vertically Integrated Design Engineering

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Dave and Chris discuss designing a remote controlled blinky device, tips around doing RF layout, low cost components, the Apollo 50th celebration and much more.

#452 – An Interview with Kieran O’Leary

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Kieran O’Leary joins Chris to talk about consulting, EMC testing, Signal Integrity issues, working as an application engineer and a lot more!

#451 – An Interview with Scott Miller (2nd)

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Scott Miller of Dragon Innovation returns to The Amp Hour after 7 years. He and Chris talk about how manufacturing continues to evolve and how Dragon is creating a “product as a service” company inside of their larger distributor parent company.

Summer Break Post: A reading/listening list

Dave and Chris will be off for this week due to travel and enjoying the summer weather (at least in the northern hemisphere). Click through for links to some older guest episodes we recommend for listening.

#450 – Stories from Teardown 2019

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Chris talks to Jesse Vincent, Adrian Studer, Zach Archer, Piotr Esden-Tempski and Jeff Keyzer during a social event at Teardown 2019.

#449 – Pulled From A Working Environment

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Dave and Chris discuss FPGAs, toolchains, workshops, cross vendor support, new dev boards and how to find a deal on used test equipment.

#448 – An Interview with Jean Rintoul

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Jean Rintoul is the founder of Mindseye Biomedical and creator of the Spectra, an impedance tomography device. Jeans joins Chris to talk about medical imaging and impedance measurement techniques.

#447 – Voltnuts for Flashlights

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Chris talks with an ailing Dave about how to specify battery packs, why electronics engineers should stay out of mechanical design and improving design by thinking about manufacturing early in the design cycle.

#446 – An Interview with Pete Bevelacqua

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Pete Bevelacqua joins Chris to talk about antenna design and testing at companies like Apple, Boeing and Nest. Pete reviews what is required to take a design from an initial sketch all the way through FCC testing and deployment to the field.

#445 – Ludicrously High Frequency Interference

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Chris and Dave return to talk about part numbers in manufacturing, doing box builds for low run prototypes, how to pass FCC compliance and what happens when your frequencies go plaid.

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