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#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!

#302 – An Interview with Clint Cole of Digilent

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Clint Cole, founder and president of Digilent, joins us to talk education, electronics, manufacturing, mobile test equipment, open source (or not) and how future engineers will learn.

#296 – Gotta Update My Dog

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Chris and Dave reunite to talk about travel (past and future), industry layoffs, connected hardware, future hardware companies and finding aliens.

#278 – Our Second Callin Show(ish)

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After some technical glitches, we did a not-so-live show with our callers and then continued talking about recent events.

#249 – Wearables Might Have Limited Fashion Options – Lachrymogenic Lane Language

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This week Dave and Chris talk about failing hardware startups, building hardware overnight, the future of wearables, distributed computing, solar efficiencies and (even more!) consolidation in the industry.

#247 – An Interview with Voja Antonic – Gerontogenous Galaksija Genesis

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Voja Antonic, the inventor of the the Galaksija 8-bit computer, talks about working on electronics in Yugoslavia (now Serbia) in the 80s and his continuing passion for creating electronics.

#62 – Op amps, Microchips & Mergers – Narquois Nerd Nescience – Narquois Nerd Nescience

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Dave and Chris discuss op amps, the TI/National merger, new microcontrollers, printable electronics, switchers, battery charging and much more!

#43 – An Interview with Jeff Keyzer and Jeremy Blum – Audacious Arduino Arguments

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Dave, Chris, Jeff Keyzer and Jeremy Blum discuss the latest in electronics news, including Google’s decision to use the Arduino.

#31 – Freescale, Hackerspaces, Printable Electronics – Publish Popular Parts Please!

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Dave and Chris want chip manufacturers to let us know which are the most popular chip in order to design to parts that won’t become obsolete as quickly.

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