A weekly show about the trends in the electronic industry.
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Batteries and power sources matter when making heat, especially for soldering! Also, development platforms, hyperloops, design sharing, open interfaces & more!
We will be having Eric Ries, author of “The Lean Startup” on the show to discuss new methodologies to start companies and run R&D departments.
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The SparkFun Engineering Team joins Chris & Dave to talk open hardware, company culture, teardowns, counterfeit parts, competitions, working with mfg and more!
We will be trying an interesting experiment here on The Amp Hour this week. We’ll be attempting to interview the entire Sparkfun Engineering team on the show. Mike Hord (@uptownmaker) has been nice enough to help us get set up with the whole crew there. You may also recognize Pete Doktor from the popular “According […]
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This week we started by talking about electric transport…but ended up devolving into discussions of FPGA SOCs, language translation, bakelite, sheet metal and more!
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Jeff Rowberg of BlueGiga and the KeyGlove Project join Chris and Dave to talk firmware, Bluetooth, wearable computing, reverse engineering and more!
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Sometimes when dealing with vendors you need to take the lead. This week Chris and Dave discuss IndieGoGo, online CAD, catalogs, databooks, non-profits and more!
After a long night of editing audio, Chris went a little insane and started wondering what it would sound like if it was just he and Dave laughing on The Amp Hour. Instead, urged on by Steve Hoefer (@Grathio), Chris instead took individual tracks from each person and compressed out the dead space. This was […]
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Ryan O’Hara joins Chris and Dave to discuss kapton stencils, pick and place machines, creating flying insect robots and more!
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Chris and Dave discuss the role of investment capital in electronics businesses. Also firmware revisions, beginning designing chips and the systemization of silicon.
