Sideshow Bob (simpsons) HERIC Inverter Review Fraunhofer HERIC inverter Dave’s video about the CH32V003 Charles episode Altium is increasing the price of their product (by 2x??) HITECH compiler from Microchip Newfound Warp13 Webrings, Blog roll, StumbleUpon Dontronics amazing siteBy The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)

Check out the Circuit Break Podcast for show notes Parker Dillman Stephen Kraig James LewisBy The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)

Welcome Petr Dvorak of Beny Devices A to Z book about KiCad fancygit lazygit gitlol Customer types Brno – 30% of electron microscopes What is changing in electron microscopes? Higher voltage, no noise Electrostatic steering Transitioning to freelancing Regulations for freelancer vs employer Petr is a prolific poster of electronics content on his Li…

Mistakes in house repair for partners Architectural Lighting Power quality Repairing a $4500 DAC Invisible computers Cal Newport on AI AI shortform USB C Spec Tester “50.0000 ohms” HDMI Layout guide (ADI) Bit Error Rate My voice is my passport Fake Dave Hackers War Games Captain Crunch no longer welcome at DEF CON Wifi (WLAN) Location API Polar Sem…

Welcome back, CNLohr! CNLohr was on the last episode talking about the CH32V003 part and the CH32V003fun library Charlieplexed errings Fast iteration Lohr-a…LoRa…get it? LoRa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIdHBDSQHyw Started in January 2024 with discussions with mustardtiger / Frank Charles had done Wifi long range before Also FM from ATTINY85 Et…

Sickness Starliner scrub Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing Toolkit for flying Search industry A380 EUV in semiconductors EV vs PHEV vs ICE Tesla sending emails to suppliers after laying off the Supercharger team powerledger / POWR Virtual power plant DEYE inverter Buying repacked batteries AC Battery vs DC battery Hybrid inverter Co…

Analog Cochlear Detectors Voyager I is back online Sustaining engineering Bobiverse books Chandra telescope Embedded World Embedded World US in October Trade shows in US Travel budgets Z80 obsolete notice Rabbit instruction set Dave trying out the Jumperless breadboard (lights up) Uri Robert Nelson Bluetooth Sigrok Zephyr LLEXT ZMK…

Chris will be at Embedded World 24 next week Bluetooth standard messages like HT, HR Early bluetooth devices (were terrible) WiBree (?) Sequans deal with Renesas fell apart There was a Sequans modem on the PyCom FiPy The low power ISM network Chris couldn’t remember was SigFox Synopsis acquired Ansys (back in January) Here comes the flood of Plugin…

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…

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 upd…

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…

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 CA…

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…

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 differen…

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 …

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 raisin…

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 C…

CES is coming up and there’s good attendance as one of the last remaining large electronic shows in the US 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 video (about NASA) Smarter Every Day video about NASA talk Lunar lander …

Welcome Benjamin Cabé of The Zephyr Project! Benjamin is the developer advocate at The Zephyr Project, which is both a Real Time Operating System and an ecosystem (or almost like a “distro”, rather than an OS) Benjamin does videos on the Zephyr YouTube and maintains an awesome blog / newsletter The ecosystem is deep: Chris recently learned there is…

You may have noted a few weeks off in September…Chris was busy with a new kiddo! Starship launch was awesome, but Blue Origin might beat them to market? Chris has been troubleshooting some boards he had made recently. It was pre-baby so sleep deprivation can’t explain some of the screw ups! PCB Carolina was a local tradeshow TechTechPotato talks ab…

Welcome Jeff Geerling of the Jeff Geerling YouTube Channel! Jeff sounds so calm one his videos because he records after the kids are in bed He started working with dad at the radio station when there was a transition in radio to digital / online. Jeff had an early job as a technology explainer while making manuals at the station. Jeff still makes v…

Welcome back, Andreas Olofsson of ZeroASIC! Andreas was on the show back in 2015 (ep 254) talking about the Parallela, a crowdfunded parallel calcuation board by his then-company Adapteva What is enabling more open source to happen? Unit economics really impact silicon designs Open source effects have been having a positive effect on the industry. …

Kathy Joseph from Kathy Loves Physics joins Dave on The Amp Hour to discuss history and physics. They end up discussing the intricate history of the development of the Cathode Ray Tube. Read Kathy’s Book The Lightning Tamers: https://tinyurl.com/TheLightningTamers Video of this recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnJ7mQ_Fo-8 Forum: https://w…

Welcome back James Adams and Liam Fraser The RP1 is the new custom silicon on the Raspberry Pi 5 that is the helper chip to the Broadcom part onboard The HW team was last on the show in 2021 talking about the RP2040 They have been working on the RP1 since 2015 It’s a small team, especially compared to other companies doing custom silicon. RP2040 up…

Dave hangs out with Fran Blanche for her 4th appearance on the show. Space, Youtubing, tube testing, storage nightmares, and oopsies.By The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)