#663 – Motors on PCBs with Carl Bugeja
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
by The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)
2d ago
Welcome Carl Bugeja! Carl lives and works in Malta He got started with robotics at his university Carl recently announced he would be launching a new company The company is called Microbots and they will sell components and kits for building similar projects to what Carl shows on his channel BigHero6 reference https://microbots.io/products/flatflap Max PCB temp is 130C Driven by series resistance of coil Tg value of PCBs A circuit that can solder itself How hot can a Flex PCB get? Batch vs raster Do you math? Tryng to get the perfect temperatures and dealing with flex materials Dealing with ..read more
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#662 – The non-Stinky Car
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
by The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)
1w ago
Chris got a Chevy Bolt (2023 1LT) The model has since been discontinued 11 kW charging using a level 2 charger Flappy paddle to recapture battery (instead of the brake) Ioniq 5/6 Aptera Marques Brownlee reviews the Prius V2G is avaialble as a software upgrade to the Nissan Leaf 2nd channel abs bypass Microbit v2 Robot video with Huxley Software updates on a door handle Chris is playing around with 20V DeWalt batteries Battery fast charger schematic Bosch adapter Vmount batteries, as explained by Caleb of DSLR Video Shooter Sony batteries Dave’s tutorial on charging Chris might try out O ..read more
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#661 – Blogging Electronics with Pallav Aggarwal
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
by The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)
2w ago
Welcome Pallav Aggarwal of CAPUF Embedded! Chris enjoyed Pallav’s series on learning the ch32v003 – fun vs HAL Ambiq Apollo Decision trees when considering hardware vs firmware Expensive to do software and stuff Order some of the boards Pallav created on Evelta India ecosystem for hw India industry CAPUF team size Pallav shares teardowns on YouTube reducing complexity Reviewing customer designs and removing 40% RP2040 in usb debuggers Efficiency consulting Over indexing on form and fit during rev 1 Troubleshoot: Joulescope / Saleae / Static analyzer Pallav has a page where he tracks AI tool ..read more
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#660 – My Toothbrush Is Broadcasting
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
by The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)
3w ago
Promise of smart home Electronic keypad Keyfob Proxmark Oral B bluetooth toothbrush Braun toothbrush teardown Solar road shutdown Smart mains socket tester ch32v003 testing success Samy keylogger Startups in Germany (can any German listeners verify?) Diyode mag is shutting down KiCad 8 was released! James Lewis did a good overview video SPICE in CAD Composite amplifier Zephyr 3.6 release Altera ..read more
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#659 – Altium…Acquired!
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
by The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)
1M ago
Renesas buying Altium Altium bought Octopart in 2017 Tasking debugger Cloud focus after reorg History of Protel / Altium – started in 1985 by Nick Martin Turbo Pascal CAD tool for windows in 90s protel99 Altium Buys Morfik in 2010 Nick booted out  After the reorg, the stock steadily grew You can watch the Renesas/Altium announcement on Zoom  There is also a slide deck available Dave linked an article from the financial press in Austrailia Zuken Altera is apparently spinning back out Steve Liebsen on The Amp Hour Intel is getting a $10B chunk of the CHIPS act money Steve Sanghi ..read more
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#658 – Uncle Al’s Eating Garbage Again
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
by The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)
1M ago
AI tools for recording 32 bit recording Pool robot Home assistant Power points in the ceiling in Dave’s office park CH32V003 board CNLohr episode rv003usb library Mike Harrison doing a video about a CH32V003 standalone programmer nRF24 Low cost modules Chris bought on Amazon Samy Kamkar on the show Samy talk about balloons Drone shows Time difference of distances Dave’s video about HP atomic clocks XKCD Radiation Dose Chart DTCXO In the Bond movies they’re not nerds LCD and fonts AI pin Vision Pro iFixit teardown Chris will be at Embedded World again this year, come say hi ..read more
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#657 – Automating the Home with Keith Burzinski
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
by The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)
1M ago
Welcome Keith Burzinski of Nabu Casa and the ESPhome project! Nabu Casa is a commercial venture that supports the open source Home Assistant (HA) project Hardware Home assistant allows your smart home to not require an outside connection, which is crucial to breaking free of large cloud providers. Chris just got a Zigbee dongle and switched outlet working in under a minute on HA Automation and triggers Users share their automation routines on the HA subreddit mmwave detecting heartbeat What is esphome? Abstraction / using YAML for business logic Deciding when to go custom Keith got started d ..read more
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The Amp Hour #656 – Pneumatic Tubes, Straight To The Home
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
by The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)
2M ago
Dave just drove 4500 km / ~ 2800 miles Dumpster room tier on Patreon? Hyperloop failure Florida train video (Wendover) Pipedream Series of tubes Guam capsize Hugo site builder, based on Go Dreamweaver Chris recommends buying a foldable lightbox (Light this) Chris’s blog post when he was going to meet Dave for the first time Dehumidifiers are raising money based on ridiculous hype Spec Sheet for Genesis Systems Chris just got a chest freezer, was surprised at the low energy needs Power charges Texas grid article on NYT after recent deep freeze Energy mix in NC Beta voltaic Used for aerospace ..read more
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#655 – The Twelfth Day of Keyzermas
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
by The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)
2M ago
Welcome back Jeff Keyzer of Mightyohm Orthodox Keyzermas Twelfth Day of Keyzermas Jeff has been taking care of his ailing cat for the past years and learned a lot about administering medicine RF 8753 / Copper mountain Shariar sometimes features Copper Mountain VNAs on the Signal Path Step attenuator NanoVNA Pallav Aggarwal articles Murata modules Chip down cellular Seattle visit The big dark Input shaping Printing with .25mm Tek TM500 Scope on a monitor arm Test equipment intervention Jay Leno turbine car episode Selling on eBay, including stuff made during the process of making parts for Je ..read more
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#654 – Pseudo Code…Pseudo Good
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
by The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)
3M ago
CES is coming up and there’s good attendance as one of the last remaining electronic shows Tradeshow are all bunched up in April for Chris in 2024, specifically Embedded World and Embedded Open Source Summit Dave gives a synopsis of the latest Smarter Every Day videos Smarter Every Day video Lunar lander training abort Apollo guide Speeding up podcast…how fast can/do you go? Last minute designs at the end of the year ESP32 / NRF9160 board limitations Cheap as chips – podcast about fish and chips Siglent oscope SDS7000A Innovators dilemma for car manufaucturers…and scopes too! Kia Carnival Ka ..read more
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