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#442 – An Interview with Travis Goodspeed

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Travis Goodspeed joins Chris to talk about his past projects (GoodFET, GoodWatch, M380 tools, P25 Jammer, Facedancer, more) and how each new project spawns communities large and small.

#250 – An Interview with Vic Aprea – Federated Firmware Functionalism

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Vic Aprea of WickedDevice.com talks about weather balloons, federated firmware programming, building distributed air quality sensors and doing it all from manufacturing up through high level web software.

#179 – Greg Charvat Returns With A Book! – Laboratory Literature Laureate

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Dr Greg Charvat returns to The Amp Hour to fill in for Dave and to talk about his upcoming book about small and short range radar system. He expounds on the field of RADAR, RF, Ham with Chris listening quietly.

#164 – Agilent’s New Name, Molex’s New Owner and PCB artwork – Nonsensical Naming Neolatry

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We discuss the silliness behind spinning out and rebranding a company, let alone one that’s already had that happen once. Also Molex was bought, BoldPort makes beautiful PCBs, TI makes the LDC1000, the Peachy has some interesting low cost hacks and more!

#78 – Alteritous Andy’s Absquatulation

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Dave and Chris run through their latest projects, favorite chips and say goodbye to a YouTube guy that blew lots of stuff up.

#70 – Idiorhythmic IPC Inconcinnity

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Chris and Dave talk about the pitfalls of consulting, the joys of thanksgiving, the wonders of ham radio and the oddness (to Dave) of moving snow off a driveway.

#69 – Control loops & Flying probers – Quassating Quadcopter Quantophrenia

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This week Chris and Dave talk about a quadcopters, control loops, flying probers, engineering salaries and much more!

#66 – Magnets, China & IEEE – Xenomorphic Xerox Xebec

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Chris, Dave and Jeff talk about amateur radio, the IEEE’s marginal benefit and magnets in China and what happens when they stop selling them!

#57 – An Interview with Alan Yates – Recondite Radiation Raconteur

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Guest Alan Yates (VK2ZAY) talks about his ham, pyrotechnic, radiation, software and maker hobbies.

#42 – Contests, Ham Radio & TWIT.tv – Ham, Spam, Thank You Ma’am

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We talked about schools, contests, more contests, ham radio, 3D transistors and our first Chip of the Week

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