The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast discusses projects, news items and talk to interesting guests from industry and the maker movement.
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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