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Dave hangs out with Fran Blanche for her 4th appearance on the show. Space, Youtubing, tube testing, storage nightmares, and oopsies.
#647 – Dave hanging with Fran Blanche
#646 – Fan Fanboys
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Chris and Dave discuss selling low volume hardware, old stock of chips, Intel’s weird investments, creating oddball PCBs, scopes without fans, and more!
#645 – Moving Down The Stack with Scott Williams
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Scott Williams returns to The Amp Hour after 6 months to discuss the technical aspects of consulting, including some of the tools he reaches for when building a new product
#644 – Garbage Ninjas
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Dave and Chris discuss fitness trackers and smartwatches, boomboxes, buying off of eBay, design decisions, and contract manufacturing.
#643 – Calibration & Repair with Ian Johnston
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Dave and Ian Scott Johnston discuss the PDVS2mini DC Voltage Calibrator Source, production, China, CERN, ebay reselling, test gear, pick and place machines, assembly, automated test systems, and Youtube repair videos.
#642 – Sad Violins for Superconductors
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Chris and Dave recount modems, handsets, trains, 2n2222 transistors, RISC V, and a complete lack of knowledge of how superconductors work.
#641 – Power Transmission with Toby Robb
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Fellow Aussie Toby Robb joins Dave to discuss everything related to mains power generation and transmission and his role as a linesman.
#640 – Software Defined Power Supplies with Werner Johansson
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Werner Johansson of Qoitech has been working on controlling power supplies with software for a long time. He joins Chris to talk about building systems that can quickly respond to the world, including a heavy focus on battery characterization.
#639 – Daaaamn We’re Duuuummmb
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Chris and Dave discuss efficiencies of different types of power generation, building with new chips, new test equipment, building with chiplets and feeling very dumb. All that and more!
#638 – Building AR Headsets with Aedan Cullen
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Aedan Cullen has built some amazingly compact electronics in order to create Augmented Reality (AR) headsets. He joins Chris to talk about hardware challenges and building the next (small) big thing.