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This week Chris and Dave talk about standardized board form factors, cellular devices, logic chips for building clocks, troubleshooting magic, and more!
#600 – The Custodial Arts
#599 – An Interview with Uri Shaked (Wokwi.com)
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Uri Shaked of Wokwi.com joins Chris to talk about simulating microcontrollers and peripherals, and the challenges of making each layer of the process accurate and fast on the web.
#598 – Best way to find a leak
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Dave and Chris discuss designing for high explosive environments, how to reverse engineer products, and the rise of RISC V in the semiconductor space.
#196 – An Interview with Mike Engelhardt (Re-broadcast)
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This is a re-broadcast of the original episode #196, where we interviewed Mike Engelhardt, the creator of LTSpice. Mike is no longer at Linear Technology, and Linear Technology is no longer a company (now part of Analog Devices), but the simulator is still awesome!
#597 – Wow, Dave REALLY likes Top Gun
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This week we discuss hardware engineers moving to software, the impacts of funding on the chip industry, long term crowdfunding campaign, and why Top Gun is awesome.
#595 – Trade Show or Conference?
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What’s the difference between a trade show and a conference? Chris returns from Embedded World (with COVID) and discusses with Dave, who is NOT going to start DaveCon. Also other news in the electronics space.
Schools out for (a couple weeks of) summer
We’re relaxing and taking the summer easy (extra easy for Dave, where it’s winter), so two weeks of no episodes. We should be back next week with a fresh one.
#594 – AI aren’t sentient yet…right?
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This week on the show, we discuss AI, new kit services, building prototypes, vintage computers, trains, and more!
#593 – Publicly Traded Hobby with Ben Jordan
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Ben Jordan was a long time Altium employee and PCB and product specialist and still makes Altium tutorial videos on Youtube. He and Dave discuss their experiences in the EDA world.
#592 – Product Design with Simone Giertz
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Simone Giertz returns to The Amp Hour 5.5 years later to discuss all of the things that she has built, things she wants to build in the future, and how she is moving those product designs into the marketplace.