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In this episode, Dave and Chris cover environmental monitoring, trade shows, manufacturing, tariffs, new test equipment, and AI coding.
#694 – Voltage, Vibes, and VOCs
#687 – The RP2350 with the Raspberry Pi Team
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The RP2350 from Raspberry Pi is a dual dual-core (Cortex-M33 and Hazard 3 RISC V) microcontroller with extensive peripherals. Some of the Raspberry Pi team (James Adams, Chris Boross, Liam Fraser, Luke Wren) join Chris to discuss how the chip evolved from the RP2040, including interesting security and lower power enhancements.
#672 – Silicon Revolution with Matt Venn
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Matt Venn returns to The Amp Hour to talk about the successes (and learnings) from many additional runs of TinyTapeout, a shared project service sitting on top of a multi product wafer service. Matt also talks about a forthcoming analog ASIC design class on Zero to Asic, his online course.
#631 – A Noisy Rude Bus
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Chris and Dave discuss how CAN bus is in fact, a “noisy rude bus”. Also working with piezo speakers, strain gauges, manufacturing considerations, and getting your proto off the bench quickly.
#608 – Vapor Phase with Saber Kaygusuz
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Saber Kaygusuz is the CEO of PCB Arts, makers of the EdgeKit and the Vapor Phase One. He joins Chris to talk about manufacturing and design of electronics systems for prosumers and software developers.
#607 – The Joulescope Upgrade with Matt Liberty
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Matt Liberty returns to The Amp Hour to talk about the upgraded Joulescope (model JS220) and the trials and tribulations it’s been to build a new device during the chip shortage.
#592 – Product Design with Simone Giertz
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Simone Giertz returns to The Amp Hour 5.5 years later to discuss all of the things that she has built, things she wants to build in the future, and how she is moving those product designs into the marketplace.
#586 – Fran Blanche Version 3
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Fran Blanche and Dave discuss publishing, newspapers, Frantone, manufacturing, the kit business, ebay, and pontificate what we would be doing if the Internet didn’t exist.
#577 – Product Lifecycle Management with Michael Corr
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Michael Corr of Duro Labs joins Chris to talk about Product Lifecycle Management: what it is, when to start using it, and how our listeners can be certain the correct design files are being used to manufacture their next electronics project.
#544 – Standardizing Manufacturing with Pete Staples
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Pete Staples of Blue Clover Devices joins Chris to talk about manufacturing and how to automate and standardize device programming and testing. Blue Clover uses their experience manufacturing in China to develop a general purpose production test tool