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What defines an engineer? Who is allowed to call themselves one? Also, how people debug and lots of new podcasts!
#170 – What defines an engineer? – Job Judging Jeremiad
#169 – An Interview with Vincent Himpe – Escaped Electron Elocution
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Vincent Himpe joins Chris and Dave for a 3+ hour conversation about his journey from early hobbyist to staff engineer at a multinational semiconductor company.
#168 – Specialized and/or Open Source Test Gear and Dev Boards – Vacation Videography Vorboten
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Chris and Dave talk about all manner of test instrument, both specialized and open source. Also interest in moving big heavy machines, friends starting Kickstarters and innovation continuing into mid-life and beyond!
#167 – An Interview with Adam Wolf – Brick & Board Biuners
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Adam Wolf of Wayne and Layne joins Chris to talk about Lego, Arduino, Open Hardware, Linux, KiCad and developing for developing areas!
#166 – Prior Art, Wafer Fabs and Guns – Whimsical Wafer Waffling
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Chris and Dave discuss the fabbing of wafers, guns at radio shows, new Arduino platforms, rapid prototyping classes, ethical patent questions, comment sections, shutdowns and more!
#165 – An Interview with Henry Ott – Forced FCC Filtering
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Henry Ott discusses his near 60 year career in the field of EMC and watching electronics progress as a field of study. His experiences help to illustrate the wide range of application of EMC theory and practice and how it can help your designs.
#164 – Agilent’s New Name, Molex’s New Owner and PCB artwork – Nonsensical Naming Neolatry
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We discuss the silliness behind spinning out and rebranding a company, let alone one that’s already had that happen once. Also Molex was bought, BoldPort makes beautiful PCBs, TI makes the LDC1000, the Peachy has some interesting low cost hacks and more!
#163 – Interview with the Upverter Founders – Ramiform Reciprocity Raconteurs
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The Founders of Upverter (Zak, Steve and MIke) join Chris and Dave to talk about online CAD, design collaboration, startups with a hardware focus and more!
#162 – Discussing The Open Hardware Summit With MightyOhm – Ostrobogulous Openness Occasion
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Jeff Keyzer returns to the show to talk about the Open Hardware Summit, CAD programs and the future of hardware.
The Amp Hour Meetup at OHSummit!
We’re confirmed! (finally) Here’s the plan! Thursday, September 5th, 2013 Think you’ll be there? Let us know in the comments! 5:00 pm Tour Bolt Accelerator! See one of the newest hardware accelerators! Please be on time so we can tour together. 110 Chauncy Street, Boston, MA http://goo.gl/maps/quW7S 7:30 pm The Amp Hour meetup at Meadhall! […]