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Dave and Chris catch up on appliance repair nightmares, SDRs, open source silicon, LCD panels, and hardware security threats. In longer term news, Chris announces his new role as Developer Relations Lead at Hubble Network.
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Eric Pan is the founder/CEO of @SeeedStudio, an #OSHW and manufacturing platform based in Shenzhen, China. He joins Chris to discuss Seeed's journey from early open-source roots to modern robotics and physical AI
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Andy Kong is making wearable electronics that will work forever as long as they get 1 minute of sunshine per day. Listen (or check out the transcript) to learn how.
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Robert Fennis joins Chris to demystify the black magic of RF and talk about his open-source, Python-based 3D E&M solver, EMerge, "the IKEA of FEM solvers". Hardware developers can now simulate their complex designs without expensive proprietary software.
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Dave and Chris celebrate 16 years of the show by launching a brand-new static website featuring searchable transcripts and new merch!. They also discuss Dave’s new employee, 10 cent RISC-V debuggers, and why naming startups is tough.
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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" 🤣
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 to others.
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This week 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.
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Jason Kridner return to talk about the BeagleBadge and Zepto boards that run Debian and Zephyr respectively. The BeagleBoard.org project is still focused on building open source, affordable, and accessible Linux / embedded hardware.
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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.
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If you successfully finish a chip design in 2 weeks, you GOTTA go get waffles afterwards. Julia Desmazes joins Chris to talk about designing accelerators on silicon for fun and the weary world of floating point (new blog!)
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Sorry if you are having issues with episode #719 with Alex Lidow. Libsyn is playing silly buggers for the MP3 upload.
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David Ray (@MakeAugusta) joins Dave (@eevblog) 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.
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Founder of Pebble and CEO of CoreDevices @EricMigi 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.
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Martin Rowe is a long time technical editor for publications like EE World, EDN, and Test and Measurement World. He stops by to talk about the things he has seen and the people he has met in the electronics industry, and he's still going strong!
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