An entire book about electronic connectors. You read that right. And I spoke with Davide Andrea about how he wrote it and all the tools he put online to support the book that are free. Fascinating discussion, check it out.
theamphour.com/708-all-the-...
theamphour.com/708-all-the-...
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
An entire book about electronic connectors. You read that right. And I spoke with Davide Andrea about how he wrote it and all the tools he put online to support the book that are free. Fascinating discussion, check it out.
theamphour.com/708-all-the-...
theamphour.com/708-all-the-...
200 Gbps analog IP blocks on leading edge 2 nm nodes from TSMC and Globalfoundries. No, I haven't magically gained superpowers, I instead talked with Joren Vaes about his work at SOFICS on The Amp Hour this week.
Learn all about analog chip design as I do on TAH706
theamphour.com/706-leading-...
Learn all about analog chip design as I do on TAH706
theamphour.com/706-leading-...
October 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
200 Gbps analog IP blocks on leading edge 2 nm nodes from TSMC and Globalfoundries. No, I haven't magically gained superpowers, I instead talked with Joren Vaes about his work at SOFICS on The Amp Hour this week.
Learn all about analog chip design as I do on TAH706
theamphour.com/706-leading-...
Learn all about analog chip design as I do on TAH706
theamphour.com/706-leading-...
I've been 3D printing up a storm on to hook things onto DIN rail and talked about that and many other things on The Amp Hour this week
theamphour.com/705-psst-hey...
theamphour.com/705-psst-hey...
October 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I've been 3D printing up a storm on to hook things onto DIN rail and talked about that and many other things on The Amp Hour this week
theamphour.com/705-psst-hey...
theamphour.com/705-psst-hey...
First thing I asked Jerry is how I can make better designs. It was...a multipart answer.
theamphour.com/704-applied-...
theamphour.com/704-applied-...
#704 – Applied Embedded Electronics with Jerry Twomey | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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…
theamphour.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
First thing I asked Jerry is how I can make better designs. It was...a multipart answer.
theamphour.com/704-applied-...
theamphour.com/704-applied-...
Reposted by Chris Gammell
@mith.ro was interviewed by @chrisgammell.bsky.social about the @wafer.space service!
Find out more at wafer.space!
Find out more at wafer.space!
September 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
@mith.ro was interviewed by @chrisgammell.bsky.social about the @wafer.space service!
Find out more at wafer.space!
Find out more at wafer.space!
Reposted by Chris Gammell
It was awesome to be on @chrisgammell.bsky.social 's Amp Hour podcast again. Find out more about my latest endeavor to make custom silicon manufacturing accessible and follow @wafer.space and bookmark wafer.space to keep up to date!
What happens when one of the main providers that enables #opensource #silicon to thrive...shuts down? Companies like @mith.ro's new wafer.space jump in and offer an even more compelling option. $7K for 1000 chips on the GlobalFoundries GF180MCU process. Learn more:
theamphour.com/703-building...
theamphour.com/703-building...
September 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It was awesome to be on @chrisgammell.bsky.social 's Amp Hour podcast again. Find out more about my latest endeavor to make custom silicon manufacturing accessible and follow @wafer.space and bookmark wafer.space to keep up to date!
What happens when one of the main providers that enables #opensource #silicon to thrive...shuts down? Companies like @mith.ro's new wafer.space jump in and offer an even more compelling option. $7K for 1000 chips on the GlobalFoundries GF180MCU process. Learn more:
theamphour.com/703-building...
theamphour.com/703-building...
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
What happens when one of the main providers that enables #opensource #silicon to thrive...shuts down? Companies like @mith.ro's new wafer.space jump in and offer an even more compelling option. $7K for 1000 chips on the GlobalFoundries GF180MCU process. Learn more:
theamphour.com/703-building...
theamphour.com/703-building...
Custom jig, custom "chip holding solution" 😂
September 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Custom jig, custom "chip holding solution" 😂
You ever re-learn that lesson over and over to make larger test points? Yeah, me neither
theamphour.com/702-test-poi...
theamphour.com/702-test-poi...
#702 – Test Point Accupuncture | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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.
theamphour.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
You ever re-learn that lesson over and over to make larger test points? Yeah, me neither
theamphour.com/702-test-poi...
theamphour.com/702-test-poi...
More open source hardware! This one is a smaller add-on board, but in service of making lots of #bluetooth nodes that connect using Golioth's Bluetooth-to-Cloud service.
blog.golioth.io/open-sourcin...
blog.golioth.io/open-sourcin...
August 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
More open source hardware! This one is a smaller add-on board, but in service of making lots of #bluetooth nodes that connect using Golioth's Bluetooth-to-Cloud service.
blog.golioth.io/open-sourcin...
blog.golioth.io/open-sourcin...
With #tariffs in the US and different PCB assembly options, it can be tough to optimize for cost on a project. I talked about my experience using JLC assembly + #KiCad on episode 700 of The Amp Hour. Other topics included #solar, #batteries, #bluetooth.
theamphour.com/700-beware-o...
theamphour.com/700-beware-o...
August 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
With #tariffs in the US and different PCB assembly options, it can be tough to optimize for cost on a project. I talked about my experience using JLC assembly + #KiCad on episode 700 of The Amp Hour. Other topics included #solar, #batteries, #bluetooth.
theamphour.com/700-beware-o...
theamphour.com/700-beware-o...
12 years ago, I talked to Andrew Seddon who was building a datasheet/footprint tool for #PCBdesigners. CircuitHub has since transformed into a digital factory for on-demand PCB assembly. We discussed #tariffs, #domesticmanufacturing, AI changes that to the industry
theamphour.com/699-circuith...
theamphour.com/699-circuith...
August 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
12 years ago, I talked to Andrew Seddon who was building a datasheet/footprint tool for #PCBdesigners. CircuitHub has since transformed into a digital factory for on-demand PCB assembly. We discussed #tariffs, #domesticmanufacturing, AI changes that to the industry
theamphour.com/699-circuith...
theamphour.com/699-circuith...
July 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Another Hardware Happy Hour is coming up on July 29th in Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill (and actually Cary for this one). Please share it with anyone you know in the area who might be interested: lu.ma/s3jyicee
3H, summer in the city · Luma
Electronics work great in the heat, right? This is our July Hardware Happy Hour, and we're going to try out another new spot! We'll be going to Rosecomb Beer…
lu.ma
July 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Another Hardware Happy Hour is coming up on July 29th in Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill (and actually Cary for this one). Please share it with anyone you know in the area who might be interested: lu.ma/s3jyicee
I love watching Matt Brown's videos reverse engineering #iot products that have ...let's say "less than stellar" security implemented. He shows his hardwaer #reverseengineering and we get to follow along and learn with him.
I talked to Matt on ep698 of The Amp Hour
theamphour.com/698-hardware...
I talked to Matt on ep698 of The Amp Hour
theamphour.com/698-hardware...
July 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I love watching Matt Brown's videos reverse engineering #iot products that have ...let's say "less than stellar" security implemented. He shows his hardwaer #reverseengineering and we get to follow along and learn with him.
I talked to Matt on ep698 of The Amp Hour
theamphour.com/698-hardware...
I talked to Matt on ep698 of The Amp Hour
theamphour.com/698-hardware...
Tim from Mitxela kind of does it all: (super tiny) electrical, (super tightly written) firmware, (super nicely finished) mechanical. We dug into what motivates him to keep making and how he hyper optimized things like the fluid (LED) pendant.
Check it out here: theamphour.com/697-leds-eve...
Check it out here: theamphour.com/697-leds-eve...
July 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Tim from Mitxela kind of does it all: (super tiny) electrical, (super tightly written) firmware, (super nicely finished) mechanical. We dug into what motivates him to keep making and how he hyper optimized things like the fluid (LED) pendant.
Check it out here: theamphour.com/697-leds-eve...
Check it out here: theamphour.com/697-leds-eve...
I have always wanted something like an #ssh connection to the #iot devices I work on. Today we published about how to use #Golioth RPCs and a simple front end to do just that.
glth.io/remote-shell
glth.io/remote-shell
June 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I have always wanted something like an #ssh connection to the #iot devices I work on. Today we published about how to use #Golioth RPCs and a simple front end to do just that.
glth.io/remote-shell
glth.io/remote-shell
Fun fact: MCP Servers aren't new, they actually have been around for a long time but Clippy (the original AI agent) got TOO powerful
June 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Fun fact: MCP Servers aren't new, they actually have been around for a long time but Clippy (the original AI agent) got TOO powerful
Reposted by Chris Gammell
I'll be speaking at @crowdsupply.bsky.social #Teardown2025 in just over a week!
I'll walk through how to automatically generate a #KiCad database library based on part data stored in Aligni #PLM software.
Slide deck PDF in the link below if you want to take a sneak peek:
cgnd.dev/posts/teardo...
I'll walk through how to automatically generate a #KiCad database library based on part data stored in Aligni #PLM software.
Slide deck PDF in the link below if you want to take a sneak peek:
cgnd.dev/posts/teardo...
Teardown 2025 Talk: Are we PLM yet?
Teardown 2025 Talk: Are we PLM yet? A beginners introduction to product lifecycle management for KiCad.
cgnd.dev
June 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I'll be speaking at @crowdsupply.bsky.social #Teardown2025 in just over a week!
I'll walk through how to automatically generate a #KiCad database library based on part data stored in Aligni #PLM software.
Slide deck PDF in the link below if you want to take a sneak peek:
cgnd.dev/posts/teardo...
I'll walk through how to automatically generate a #KiCad database library based on part data stored in Aligni #PLM software.
Slide deck PDF in the link below if you want to take a sneak peek:
cgnd.dev/posts/teardo...
Me running a Discourse forum in 2025 trying to determine if a post was written by a human...
June 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Me running a Discourse forum in 2025 trying to determine if a post was written by a human...
Do you understand how #RF and #magnetics work? Any time I check out Sam Aldhaher's visualizations, I do just a bit better. We spoke on The Amp Hour this week about how to get started in #blender and build out visualizations using tools like #openems and #elmer_fem.
theamphour.com/695-making-t...
theamphour.com/695-making-t...
June 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Do you understand how #RF and #magnetics work? Any time I check out Sam Aldhaher's visualizations, I do just a bit better. We spoke on The Amp Hour this week about how to get started in #blender and build out visualizations using tools like #openems and #elmer_fem.
theamphour.com/695-making-t...
theamphour.com/695-making-t...
I'm working on a video where Rajeev from Conexio optimized a #zephyrrtos program and hardware configuration to send every hour without needing batteries. Uses a Nordic nRF9151, solar panel, and supercap
blog.golioth.io/upcoming-web...
blog.golioth.io/upcoming-web...
June 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I'm working on a video where Rajeev from Conexio optimized a #zephyrrtos program and hardware configuration to send every hour without needing batteries. Uses a Nordic nRF9151, solar panel, and supercap
blog.golioth.io/upcoming-web...
blog.golioth.io/upcoming-web...
If you haven't seen Sam Aldhaher's visualization of #RF signals, you're missing out! I got to speak with him on #TheAmpHour this week and loved learning how #Blender can be used as not just visualization, but also a tool for calculation (with the plugin ecosystem) theamphour.com/695-making-t...
#695 – Making The Invisible, Visible with Sam Aldhaher | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
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…
theamphour.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
If you haven't seen Sam Aldhaher's visualization of #RF signals, you're missing out! I got to speak with him on #TheAmpHour this week and loved learning how #Blender can be used as not just visualization, but also a tool for calculation (with the plugin ecosystem) theamphour.com/695-making-t...
Really enjoyed having Colin O'Flynn back on the show for a 3rd time. We chatted security, FPGAs, small scale electronics manufacturing, and the world of academia.
theamphour.com/693-small-sc...
theamphour.com/693-small-sc...
#693 – Small Scale Electronics Manufacturing with Colin O’Flynn | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
theamphour.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Really enjoyed having Colin O'Flynn back on the show for a 3rd time. We chatted security, FPGAs, small scale electronics manufacturing, and the world of academia.
theamphour.com/693-small-sc...
theamphour.com/693-small-sc...
probing a 20V rail with a DMM and my watch decides to buzz the "time to move" reminder right as the DMM leads make contact...
May 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
probing a 20V rail with a DMM and my watch decides to buzz the "time to move" reminder right as the DMM leads make contact...