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#105 – An Interview with Chris Anderson – Deambulatory Daedal Drones

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Chris Anderson joins Dave and Chris to talk DIY Drones, Makers, Manufacturing, Electronics, Community, Publishing and lots more.

Chris Anderson on The Amp Hour this week!

This coming week, we’re pleased to welcome Chris Anderson!   Chris is the editor of Wired and has been for 11 years. He is also a co-Founder of DIY drones, a 20,000+ strong community of UAV enthusiasts and also runs the commercial arm, 3D robotics!  He has also written books about the growth of the internet including The […]

#104 – Ceramic capacitors & High end scopes – Kempt Kickstarter Kakorrhaphiophobia

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Dave and Chris discuss Kickstarter projects, ceramic capacitors, high end scopes, BOM tools, memristors and lots more!

Discuss Server Working Again

Sorry about the mixup. A few updates on other parts of the server caused the redirection to break on the Discuss Server. If you ever notice  that in the future, please feel free to email me at chris {at} theamphour {dot} com.   Don’t forget, any question that didn’t get answered during the show and […]

#103 – An Interview with Philip Freidin – Xenodochial Xilinx Ex-Employee

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Philip Freidin of Fliptronics joins Dave and Chris to talk about his work at AMD, Xilinx and the state of the industry.

Get Your Questions In For An FPGA Chip Design Veteran

Philip Freidin was an architect of RISC (AM29000) and Bit-Slice (AM2900/29300) while at AMD. Later, while at Xilinx, he architected FPGAs such as the XC4000, Virtex, Virtex2, Virtex4 and the Spartan. He also has various patents, including for synchronous dual port RAM on an FPGA and for a programming standard that was the precursor to JTAG. Now […]

#102 — Gouging Green Gardyloo

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Dave and Chris start by talking about energy and end up talking about silicon eventually.

#101 – An Interview with Matt Ettus – Quality Quadrature Quidam

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Matt Ettus of Ettus Research (and NI) stops by The Amp Hour to talk software defined radio and the future of the airwaves.

Guest Questions and News Items

As you all hopefully have heard by now, we launched the “Discuss” section of The Amp Hour this past weekend. Though it may be an unfamiliar format, we’re really hoping that listeners will take the time to stop by that part of our site. We think it could be a great way for everyone to […]

#100 – Bonkers Birthday Badinage

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Dave and Chris discuss birthdays, discussion forums, fab building, chip building, cheap devices, expensive chips, job seeking and much more! Happy 100th episode!

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