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#520 – Inductance and Stuff

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This week Chris and Dave dive into RF…and promptly turn around and walk away from the topic. Also firmware, training repetitions, PCB stackups, satellites, Linux modules and much more!

#518 – Satellites and EVs with Joris Aerts

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Joris Aerts joins Chris to talk about building electronics for (cube) satellites, the electronics inside the Model S door handle and a new testing platform he is creating.

#462 – Boat Anchors

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This week Dave and Chris discuss satellite communications, PCB milling, measuring RF, and uncertain datasheets. Please consider filling out our 2019 listener survey. We will do a drawing for DMMs, USB scopes and Amp Hour notebooks.

#427 – An Interview with Maarten Engelen

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Maarten Engelen is the CTO of Hiber, a low earth orbit satellite company that offers low data rate connectivity to remote applications. He joins Chris to talk about building and deploying satellites and modems for modern applications.

#397.8 – An Interview with Chris Gerlinsky

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Chris Gerlinsky is an embedded engineer and hacker who reverse engineers protocols for the automotive sector. He sits down with Chris (Gammell) at ToorCamp to talk through decapping chips to extract information.

#397.2 – An Interview with Gareth from Greenpeace

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Gareth from Greenpeace joins Chris at ToorCamp to talk about tracking illegal fishing and dealing with high volume spammers.

#281 – Crossovers and Call-ins

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Chris and Elecia White of Embedded.fm join Chris on The Amp Hour to take calls from guests. Topics include pro makers, early micros, new programming languages and needed debug tools.

#220 – An Interview with Shaun Meehan – Doctiloquent Dove Deployer

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Shaun Meehan joins Chris to talk about sugar rockets, pet robots, living in Antarctica for 2 years, huge lasers, tiny components and launching electronics into space.

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