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Chris and Dave discuss PCB art, failed hardware projects, USB chips, lack of chips, new (to us) wireless network protocols, and more!
#587 – Biblical Broker Bucks
#557 – Generic Nodes with Orkhan Amiraslanov
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Orkhan Amiraslanov of The Things Industries joins Chris to talk about creating hardware for a LoRaWAN network, including working with different microcontrollers and building a sensor platform that will handle many users’ needs.
#488 – Sowing Discord
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This week Dave and Chris discuss (from lockdown), repairing devices, part storage at home, our new Discord for patrons, virtual meetups, capacitor requirements and much more!
#485 – An Interview with John Day
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John Day is a technical fellow and one of the top FAEs at Microchip. He has spent over 25 years working in various parts of the business and helping their customers design devices for the automotive, commercial, and industrial sectors (and many more!). John joins Chris to talk about microcontrollers and pinball.
#413 – A House of FR4
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This week Dave and Chris discuss micros going in and out of style, building electronics for philanthropy, bogus water harvesting techniques, spy chips and much more!
#384 – A++++++ Will Buy Again
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Dave and Chris brainstorm ways to deal with the long lead times in the marketplace right now. Also noise measurements, soldering irons, large semiconductor firm buyouts and a new Raspberry Pi.
#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.
#382 – The Toggle Boggle
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This week Dave and Chris recount their stories of testing and of learning firmware. Also new t-shirts, big companies continue their buying spree and video tours of manufacturing facilities
#342 – Our first in-person show
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Chris and Dave finally record The Amp Hour from the same room while Chris is visiting Sydney. Discussions about manufacturing, FPGAs, meetups, sci-fi and more!
#319 – Photon Rich, Cash Poor
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Chris and Dave return to chat with one another (at the same time!) about solar power, EMC testing, new chips, pick and place machines, licensing issues for products and much more!