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#600 – The Custodial Arts

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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!

#484 – Man Behind The Curtain

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This week Dave and Chris talk about carrying your lab with you because of Coronavirus, conferences going online, parts lists out of Shenzhen, EVs in Australia and more!

#383 – An Interview with Scott Shawcroft

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Chris talks with Scott Shawcroft who works at Adafruit on CircuitPython. He helped to port MicroPython to the SAMD21 chipset and discusses the details of getting a language working on a new platform, including how to use debuggers.

#323 – An Interview with Tony DiCola

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Tony DiCola from Adafruit joins Chris and Dave to talk about how to use MicroPython on a variety of microcontrollers! Learn how to use a high level, interpreted language to control low level hardware!

#271 – Amazon Moves In, Dave Says Run

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Amazon getting into the IoT space prompts Dave to call the game for everyone else. Also chip mergers, die shrinks, end of life parts, conferences and more!

#264 – The Cost Of Doing Business

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This week we discuss the implications of work culture at engineering companies. Also FPGAs, bootstrapping companies, acquisitions, the falloff of product quality and more!

#229 – MightyHohm For The Holidays – Kaiser Keyzer’s Kits

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Jeff Keyzer (Mightyohm) joins The Amp Hour once again to update us on his past 2 years of work and his holiday plans.

#40 – Adafruit, Chip heist, Hackerspaces – The Kit Conniption

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This week focused mainly around building a kit business, namely keeping costs down, keeping revenues in check and how to license your project.

#18 – Transistor Types and Where To Get Electronic Gear

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The continuing trend of hackerspaces. Fabs that only make discontinued chips. Workplace of the Week!

#10 – Open Hardware and Self Publishing

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This week’s discussion revolved around open hardware. The summit definitely provided some interesting conversation points.

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