The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

A weekly podcast about the electronics industry. Occasional guests. Lots of laughs.

Episodes

#712 – Robots Everywhere with Aaed Musa

January 19, 2026 • 58 mins

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.

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#711 – Medical Electronics Education with Mark Palmeri

December 22, 2025 • 89 mins

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 Tympanometer project, built with Duke BME Design Fellows.

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#710 – Tugging on the Nerd Heartstring

December 6, 2025 • 56 mins

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.

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#709 – Nobel Prize Winner Dr Barry Marshall

November 9, 2025 • 50 mins

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.

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#708 – All the Connectors with Davide Andrea

November 2, 2025 • 65 mins

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.

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#707 – Welding with an HDMI Cable

October 27, 2025 • 50 mins

This week Dave and Chris discuss test equipment, the Arduino acquisition, Zephyr, Altium pricing, private equity owning YouTube channels, audio circuits, and more!

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#706 – Leading Edge Analog with Joren Vaes

October 18, 2025 • 64 mins

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.

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#705 – Psst…Hey buddy, wanna buy an Octopus?

October 8, 2025 • 46 mins

This week Dave and Chris discuss DIN rail, IAC (featuring Space Lube), begging for Moonlanders, batteries, 10x-priced connectors, Gridfinity, concrete slabs, and more.

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#704 – Applied Embedded Electronics with Jerry Twomey

October 2, 2025 • 50 mins

Jerry Twomey, author of Applied Embedded Electronics, joins Chris to talk about how to build more reliable hardware when there are embedded components involved. And these days, there are almost always embedded components involved.

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#703 – Building wafer.space with Tim Ansell

September 24, 2025 • 58 mins

Tim 'Mithro' Ansell returns to The Amp Hour to discuss his new Singapore based wafer sharing service called wafer.space. Now that Efabless is no more, this venture will aim to make silicon even more accessible to the masses, driving down the costs on a per chip basis. For $7K, you get 1000 chips delivered on a 180 nm process from Global Foundries.

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#702 – Test Point Accupuncture

September 14, 2025 • 66 mins

Dave and Chris discuss solar, nuclear, making new injection molds from old ones (or not), and how to probe poorly placed test points with tiny needles.

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#701 – Electric Propulsion with Todd Bailey

August 21, 2025 • 90 mins

Todd Bailey has been busy in the 11 years since he was last on the show. He has designed submarine sonar and many different pieces of space electronics, the latest being a hall effect thruster that uses solid propellant for his now sold company Starlight Engines.

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#700 – Beware of the Overachievers

August 7, 2025 • 75 mins

Dave and Chris record after a long break between episodes together and discuss new electronics designs they're working on, solar and battery installations, dealing with tariffs, and building at JLC.

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#699 – CircuitHub, 12 Years Later with Andrew Seddon

July 31, 2025 • 83 mins

Andrew Seddon, founder and CEO of CircuitHub, joins Chris to talk about how CircuitHub has changed over the past 12 years as a startup and how they are continuing to push the boundaries of high mix domestic electronics manufacturing.

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#698 – Hardware Security with Matt Brown

July 17, 2025 • 67 mins

Matt Brown is a hardware and IoT security researcher. He joins Chris to talk about best practices for securing hardware that talks to the internet and share stories of products that didn't pass muster.

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#697 – LEDs Everywhere with Tim from Mitxela

July 8, 2025 • 75 mins

Tim from Mitxela stops by the show to discuss his extensive portfolio of projects involving, hardware (tiny LEDs), firmware (ridiculously low power processing), software (emulating gameboy), and mechanical (machining jewelry grade objects)

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#696 – It Works With Option Number 5

June 18, 2025 • 63 mins

This week Dave and Chris discuss solar optimization, short videos, useless products, cameras, energy monitors, Bluetooth, magnets, and more!

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#695 – Making The Invisible, Visible with Sam Aldhaher

June 3, 2025 • 75 mins

Sam Aldhaher is a power engineer and 3D graphic artist, his Blender visualizations have helped many people understand how RF flows in a variety of circuits. Sam joins Chris to talk about how to get started in Blender and the variety of tools available once you do.

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#694 – Voltage, Vibes, and VOCs

May 21, 2025 • 71 mins

In this episode, Dave and Chris cover environmental monitoring, trade shows, manufacturing, tariffs, new test equipment, and AI coding.

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#693 – Small Scale Electronics Manufacturing with Colin O’Flynn

May 13, 2025 • 78 mins

Colin O'Flynn returns to The Amp Hour for a 3rd time to talk about recent developments in security, FPGAs, small scale electronics manufacturing, and the world of academia.

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Episodes

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#710 – Tugging on the Nerd Heartstring

#709 – Nobel Prize Winner Dr Barry Marshall

#708 – All the Connectors with Davide Andrea

#707 – Welding with an HDMI Cable

#706 – Leading Edge Analog with Joren Vaes

#705 – Psst…Hey buddy, wanna buy an Octopus?

#704 – Applied Embedded Electronics with Jerry Twomey

#703 – Building wafer.space with Tim Ansell

#702 – Test Point Accupuncture

#701 – Electric Propulsion with Todd Bailey

#700 – Beware of the Overachievers

#699 – CircuitHub, 12 Years Later with Andrew Seddon

#698 – Hardware Security with Matt Brown

#697 – LEDs Everywhere with Tim from Mitxela

#696 – It Works With Option Number 5

#695 – Making The Invisible, Visible with Sam Aldhaher

#694 – Voltage, Vibes, and VOCs

#693 – Small Scale Electronics Manufacturing with Colin O’Flynn

Popular Podcasts

#712 – Robots Everywhere with Aaed Musa

#711 – Medical Electronics Education with Mark Palmeri