The Amp Hour
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The 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/
The Amp Hour #708 - All the Connectors with Davide Andrea
The Amp Hour #707 - Welding with an HDMI Cable
The Amp Hour #706 - Leading Edge Analog with Joren Vaes
The Amp Hour #705 - Psst...Hey buddy, wanna buy an Octopus?
The Amp Hour #704 - Applied Embedded Electronics with Jerry Twomey
The Amp Hour #703 - Building Wafer Space with Tim Ansell
The Amp Hour #702 - Test Point Accupuncture
The Amp Hour #701 - Electric Propulsion with Todd Bailey
The Amp Hour #700 - Beware of the Overachievers
The Amp Hour #699 - CircuitHub 12 Years Later with Andrew Seddon
The Amp Hour #698 - Hardware Security with Matt Brown
The Amp Hour #697 - LEDs Everywhere with Tim from Mitxela
The Amp Hour #696 - It Works With Option Number 5
The Amp Hour - #695 - Making The Invisible, Visible with Sam Aldahar
The Amp Hour #694 - Voltage, Vibes, and VOCs
The Amp Hour #693 - Small Scale Electronics Manufacturing with Colin O'Flynn
The Amp Hour #692 - Like a steam engine in your house
The Amp Hour #691 - System Designer Lets You Try Every Part with Michael Gielda
The Amp Hour #690 - Clap on, clap off, lights flicker
The Amp Hour #689 - A Jumperless Breadboard with Kevin Cappucio
The Amp Hour #688 - The Tandy Train
The Amp Hour #687 - The RP2350 with the Raspberry Pi Team
The Amp Hour #686 - A Benchtop Pick and Place with Stephen Hawes
The Amp Hour #685 - Data Provenance in the Home, Server, and Fab
S2024 Ep 684The Amp Hour #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. Covering everything from the Berkeley free speech movement, the counterculture movement, his career, through to Obsorne and how he invented social media with Community Memory. His book: https://www.amazon.com/Me-My-Big-Idea... https://felsensigns.com/ 00:00 - Full 3 hour talk with Lee Felsenstein 08:24 - University of California at Berkeley, and the Free Speech Movement. 29:04 - First Junior Engineer job at Ampex 36:20 - The first hackathons with Richard Greenblatt 37:33 - Hackers, Heros of the computer revolution 1:03:36 - Techical career at Ampex 1:12:52 - Atari Computers and Steve Jobs, Nolan Bushnall, and Allan Alcorn 1:15:00 - He tried to pitch social media to Steve Jobs 1:22:15 - Designing the Pennywhistle 103 modem + 1:25:36 - Marty Spergel selling kits 1:31:53 - Steve Wozniak and how the Apple 1 is NOT a personal computer 1:43:42 - Osborne Computers 1:53:22 - Osborne 1 physical design 1:57:57 - Osborne 1 development timeline 2:01:19 - The Osborne Effect wasn't what killed the company
The Amp Hour #683 - Troubleshooting is the skill
The Amp Hour #682 - Your Mind Is The Tool
The Amp Hour #681 - Compact High Speed Design with Lukas Henkel
The Amp Hour #680 - Catching Rockets with Musk Sticks
The Amp Hour #679 - Satellite Design Engineering with Dan Esparon
Dan Esparon from Inovor Technologies in South Australia joins Dave to discuss all about designing and launching satellites!