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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
By The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)
The Amp Hour is a weekly conversation about electronics and the people who design them.
Latest episode
The Walmart Greeter of Electronics
1 hr 6 min
- Cadence
- Biweekly
- Typical length
- 1 hr 5 min
- Latest release
- Sep 18
- Language
- EN-US
- Activity
- Current — released within 30 days
Podcast Classification
Topics
Embedded Systems
Firmware, electronics, microcontrollers, real-time systems, and connected hardware.
Computer Architecture
Processors, memory, accelerators, systems architecture, and computing hardware design.
Semiconductors
Chip design, fabrication, semiconductor markets, packaging, and manufacturing ecosystems.
Formats
Panel & Roundtable
Recurring multi-host or multi-guest discussion and debate.
Technical Deep Dive
Detailed technical, architectural, or research-oriented examination.
Audience level
Advanced
Regularly assumes specialist knowledge and discusses implementation, architecture, protocols, code, or research in depth.
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The Walmart Greeter of Electronics
Dave and Chris catch up on Dave’s visit to the University of Sydney Open Day, the shift toward practical hands-on engineering education, and open-source robotics like the Seeed Studio SO-101 and Hugging Face Micro Duck.
Perpetual Wearable Biosensing with Andy Kong
Chris welcomes Andy Kong to discuss “ Chargerless ” and how to build ultra-low-power wearable health trackers that never need wall charging.
Hands-on Physical AI with Kevin Cloutier
Kevin Cloutier is the North American Lead for Physical AI at CapGemini, a global engineering consulting firm. He is a computer engineer who is passionate about taking complex computations to the edge.
E&M Reality Emerges with Robert Fennis
Robert Fennis is an RF engineer and consultant from the Netherlands and the creator of EMerge: a free, open-source 3D Finite Element Method (FEM) electromagnetic solver written in Python.
The Focus Knob Works
ACES Hardware Meetup: Dave recently attended a packed ACES Hardware meetup at the Engineers Australia headquarters, which led to a discussion on whether “Engineer” should be a protected term like “Doctor” or “Lawyer”.
The Terahertz Frontier with Greg Charvat of Teradar
Reflecting on the 2018 pivot: Greg discusses how his previous work at Butterfly Network (ultrasound), Hyperfine (portable MRI), and Humatics (microlocation) centered on the “hard tech” philosophy of moving everything to silicon to lower costs and increase resolution.
Space Age Bluetooth with Alex Haro
Hubble co-founder and CTO of Ben Wild, is the architect of Amazon Sidewalk.
Boat Anchor Warehouse
AI Data Centers & Local LLMs: Dave discusses his noise concerns regarding a new AI data center and its diesel backup generators being built near his office. Chris shares his experience running local AI models like Gemma 4 on a laptop using the Hermes orchestrator for tasks like coding and internet research.
Arduino's Invisible Touch with Massimo Banzi
Massimo believes this is the first time he has talked about the role of Arm in the difficult legal process.
The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski
Welcome Michał Zalewski, AKA lcamtuf!