The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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#687 – The RP2350 with the Raspberry Pi Team
The RP2350 from Raspberry Pi is a dual dual-core (Cortex-M33 and Hazard 3 RISC V) microcontroller with extensive peripherals. Some of the Raspberry Pi team (James Adams, Chris Boross, Liam Fraser, Luke Wren) join Chris to discuss how the chip evolved from the RP2040, including interesting security and lower power enhancements.
#686 – A Benchtop Pick and Place with Stephen Hawes
Stephen Hawes started Opulo, a company that builds the Lumen Benchtop Pick and Place. Opulo designs open source hardware and sane software for building your own PCBs in your lab.
#685 – Data Provenance in the Home, Server, and Fab
This week Chris and Dave discuss the changes at Intel, being in control data in your home lab, bogus copyright claims for repair videos, and more!
#684 – Lee Felsenstein: The Computer Revolution & Counterculture
A full 3 hour discussion with the legendary Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1, SOL computer, VDM-1, Pennywhistle modem, and the inventor of social media.
#683 – Troubleshooting is the skill
Chris and Dave discuss updated house wiring, making smart relays capable of switching power, how to design a linear supply, and using AI tools to help troubleshoot code (but NOT layout)
#682 – Your Mind Is The Tool
Chris and Dave discuss troubleshooting a dead short in a PCB, the slow march of time, retirements, whether 2 layers is sufficient on PCBs, and much more!
#681 – Compact High Speed Design with Lukas Henkel
Lukas Henkel, CEO of OV Tech, joins Chris to talk about high speed design while utilizing incredibly small form factors. They discuss open source SIPs, a CM4 replacement board, FEM modeling, and more!
#680 – Catching Rockets with Musk Sticks
Chris and Dave discuss identifying boards, amazing rocket catches, recent travel to trade shows, the impacts of the floods on the supply chain, EV charging, and more!
#679 – Satellite Design Engineering with Dan Esparon
Dan Esparon from Inovor Technologies in South Australia joins Dave to discuss all about the engineering of designing and launching satellites!
#678 – All About Antennas with Katerina Galitskaya
Katerina Galitskaya is a Senior Antenna Engineer who is currently designing base station antennas. She joins Chris to talk about simulating, visualizing, and thinking about the design of antennas. Listen for everyday design rules and stories of interesting antenna designs.
#677 – Watt Is The Deal
This week Dave and Chris talk about Meshtastic (a meshing layer on top of LoRa), new scope specs, cellular modems, power, and a new Embedded Conference in the US.
#676 – Moving House (And Lab)
Dave and Chris record together after a long hiatus because Chris spent the summer moving boxes between two houses and reorganizing his lab. Also hardware livestreams, open source hardware, new battery storage, layoffs, and more!
#675 – Changing Course with Shawn Hymel
Shawn Hymel is an engineer and content creator who recently left his developer relations job at Edge Impulse to work on developing courses full time
#674 – Turtles as a Service
Dave and Chris return to talk electronics trade shows, API tools, solar and batteries, automation, and more!
#673 – Lifelong Learning with Bitluni
Bitluni joins Chris on The Amp Hour to discuss FPGAs, ESP32 projects, custom silicon, building around memes, and continually challenging yourself to learn something new.
#672 – Silicon Revolution with Matt Venn
Matt Venn returns to The Amp Hour to talk about the successes (and learnings) from many additional runs of TinyTapeout, a shared project service sitting on top of a multi product wafer service. Matt also talks about a forthcoming analog ASIC design class on Zero to Asic, his online course.
#671 – NDA Sideshow
Dave and Chris talk about the letdown of signing an NDA and seeing "behind the curtain". Also inverters, programming tools, pricing changes at Altium, and old school web stuff.