
The Amp Hour
David L. Jones and Chris Gammell · The Amp Hour
Show overview
The Amp Hour has been publishing since 2010, and across the 16 years since has built a catalogue of 739 episodes. That works out to roughly 930 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 2024th season.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 6m and 1h 21m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 14 episodes already out so far this year.
From the publisher
An off-the-cuff radio show and podcast for electronics enthusiasts and professionals. Note: this is the "show only" version of the feed. To see the show notes, check out the main podcast feed: https://theamphour.com/feed/
Latest Episodes
View all 739 episodesThe Amp Hour 725 - The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski
The Amp Hour #724 - All Heat, No Useful Work
The Amp Hour #723 - BeagleBoard's Back with Jason Kridner
The Amp Hour #722 - AI Tooling with Matt Liberty and Luke Beno
The Amp Hour #721 - Chip Design for Fun (and Waffles) with Julia Desmazes

The Amp Hour #720 - Hyper Growth and OpenClaw Interns

Ep 719The Amp Hour #719 - Inventing the Power MOSFET with Alex Lidow
Alex is founder and CEO of Efficient Power Conversion, a leading manufacurer 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 power MOSFET on his first day on the job to silicon physics, AI data centres and humanoid robots. Enjoy.
Ep 718The Amp Hour #718 - Layout Review with Zachariah
The Amp Hour #717 - Back on the Road in '26
The Amp Hour #716 - Electronics Manufacturing History with David Ray
The Amp Hour #715 - Shiny New Pebble with Eric Migicovsky
The Amp Hour #714 - The Measurement Blues with Martin Rowe
The Amp Hour #713 - Rubber Duck Incarnate
The Amp Hour #712 - Robots Everywhere with Aaed Musa
The Amp Hour #711 - Medical Electronics Education with Mark Palmeri
The Amp Hour #710 - Tugging on the Nerd Heartstring

Ep 709The Amp Hour #709 - 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. But Barry is also an electronics hobbyist and vintage HP and Tek oscilloscope and vintage computer enthusiast. He visited the EEVBlog and sat down with Dave for an impromptu discussion about all sorts of things. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2005/marshall/facts/