Podcast profile
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 Focus Knob Works
55 min
- Cadence
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 1 hr 3 min
- Latest release
- Aug 5, 2026
- Language
- EN-US
Topics
Engineering Practice
Building, testing, shipping, and operating technical systems.
How It Works
Accessible explanation of technical mechanisms and systems.
Formats
Roundtable
A recurring group discusses several subjects or perspectives.
Interview
A host-led conversation with one or more guests.
Audience level
Advanced
Consistently technical, professional, or specialist in depth.
People behind the show
Current hosts
Dave Jones
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Latest episodes
The Focus Knob Works
Dave and Chris celebrate 16 years of the show (1st episode was August 10th, 2010) by launching a brand-new static website featuring searchable transcripts and a “pissed-old amber” SVG scope with a working focus knob–and links to merch!. They also discuss Dave’s new employee, 10 cent RISC-V debuggers, and why naming you
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast1 hr 21 min
The Terahertz Frontier with Greg Charvat of Teradar
Dr Greg Charvat, CTO and co-founder of Teradar, joins Chris for a 5th appearance on The Amp Hour to talk about how terahertz frequency radar will revolutionize the automotive space and far outstrips the capabilities of LIDAR and Blobbology
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast1 hr 7 min
Space Age Bluetooth with Alex Haro
Alex Haro, CEO of Hubble, joins Chris to talk about building a network of terrestrial and space (!) based Bluetooth infrastructure to track low power devices across the globe, without a data plan or a GPS module onboard.
Boat Anchor Warehouse
Dave and Chris discuss a massive “boat anchor” warehouse clearance, 0201 board assembly, Texas Instruments’ stealthy datasheet updates for classic op-amps, the latest in local AI models, and paper-based electronics art
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast1 hr 11 min
Arduino's Invisible Touch with Massimo Banzi
Massimo Banzi is co-founder of Arduino, the worldwide project built upon easily accessible embedded hardware. He joins Chris to talk about the design, rise, struggles, and eventual exit of the company, and what he’s now doing with Supermoderno.
The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski
Michał Zalewski (lcamtuf) is a security researcher, author, electronics enthusiast, and calculator collector. He joins Chris to talk about his new book The Secret Life of Circuits and his interest in the field of electronics and explaining things to others.
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast1 hr 5 min
All Heat, No Useful Work
Dave and Chris discuss the infrastructure and massive energy demands of AI data centers, injecting power through a programming header, Linux changes, and dogfooding your own projects.
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast1 hr 11 min
BeagleBoard's Back with Jason Kridner
Jason Kridner returns to The Amp Hour after his first appearance 15 years ago to talk about the BeagleBadge and Zepto boards that showcase new capabilities in the Linux and Zephyr space. The BeagleBoard.org project is still focused on building open source, affordable, and accessible Linux and embedded hardware.
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast1 hr 10 min
AI Tooling with Matt Liberty and Luke Beno
Past guests Matt Liberty (Joulescope) and Luke Beno (Werewolf.us) join Chris to talk through using AI tooling for small businesses in the hardware and firmware space. Both have built custom ERP systems, among many other tooling for their businesses, in a fast moving environment.
Chip Design for Fun (and Waffles) with Julia Desmazes
Julia Desmazes joins Chris to discuss designing chips for fun and getting an entire design done in 2 weeks to make a tapeout deadline. Julia built accerlators and has continued to dive deeper into on and off chip tooling for greater visibility into the silicon she gets back from the fab.
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast1 hr 1 min
Hyper Growth and OpenClaw Interns
Dave and Chris discuss Golioth getting acquired by Canonical (makers of Ubuntu), trying out OpenClaw in the lab, changes to space plans, big new factories, Arm making chips, and more!
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast1 hr 6 min
Inventing the Power MOSFET with Alex Lidow
Alex is founder and CEO of Efficient Power Conversion, a leading manufacturer of GaN MOSFET’s. Alex is also the inventor of the original Power MOSFET and HEXFET at International Rectifier. Also, former CEO of International Rectifier (founded by his father!), https://epc-co.com We cover everything from inventing the pow
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast1 hr 1 min
Layout Review with Zachariah Peterson
Zachariah Peterson joins Chris to discuss doing PCB layout and creating content for engineers looking to learn more about how to build their own PCBs
Back on the road in '26
This week we talked about upcoming travel, solid state transformers, battery testing, new small circuit boards, and a bunch more.
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast1 hr 3 min
Electronics Manufacturing History with David Ray
David Ray joins Dave to talk about the history of electronics manufacturing and how he has built a high mix manufacturing business while regularly educating the public about how electronics work.
Shiny New Pebble with Eric Migicovsky
Founder of Pebble and CEO of CoreDevices, Eric Migicovsky, joins Chris to talk about the history of the Pebble Watch and resurrecting the hardware to serve a very loyal ecosystem. Along the way, Eric has continued to create new gadgets like the Index 01 ring.
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast1 hr 17 min
The Measurement Blues with Martin Rowe
Martin Rowe is a long time technical editor for publications like EE World, EDN, and Test and Measurement World. He stops by The Amp Hour to talk about the things he has seen and the people he has met in the electronics industry, and he’s still going strong!
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast1 hr 9 min
Rubber Duck Incarnate
Dave and Chris discuss staying connected while traveling, building terminal interfaces for custom hardware, using coding tools, the Teensy and recent events surrounding the manufacture, Zephyr, Raspberry Pi PIOs, and more!
Robots Everywhere with Aaed Musa
Aaed is a YouTuber who builds a variety of robots and a mechanical engineering student at Purdue. He joins Chris to talk building robots and robotics components from the ground up, with a focus on lowering the cost and barrier to entry. They also discuss modern engineering education.
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast1 hr 30 min
Medical Electronics Education with Mark Palmeri
Dr Mark Palmeri is a professor at Duke University in the Biomedical Engineering (BME) field. He joins Chris to talk about using open tools (KiCad, ngspice, Zephyr, Jupyter notebooks, Python) to build educational resources and how he shares those courses with the world outside of Duke. He also walks through the Tympanom
Tugging on the Nerd Heartstring
Dave and Chris are back after a long vacation absence to talk about high end events, new scopes, fast board assembly, and nerds nostalgic for the sci fi future that never was.
Nobel Prize Winner Dr Barry Marshall
Dr Barry Marshall won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast1 hr 5 min
All the Connectors with Davide Andrea
Davide Andrea is the author of The Electronic Connector Book and Principal of Elithion, a company that designs Battery Management System. He joins Chris to talk about the wide and wonderful world of connectors.
Welding with an HDMI Cable
This week Dave and Chris discuss test equipment, the Arduino acquisition, Zephyr, Altium pricing, private equity owning YouTube channels, audio circuits, and more!
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast1 hr 4 min
Leading Edge Analog with Joren Vaes
Joren Vaes is a design engineer at SOFICS working on simulating and delivering analog IP blocks on leading edge nodes like the 2 nm node from TSMC. Listen to how they bend physics to their will to make the chips that power our modern electronics.