Episodes

  • #715 – Shiny New Pebble with Eric Migicovsky

    #715 – Shiny New Pebble with Eric Migicovsky
    Feb 10 2026
    Founder of Pebble and CEO of CoreDevices, Eric Migicovsky, 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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    59 mins
  • #714 – The Measurement Blues with Martin Rowe

    #714 – The Measurement Blues with Martin Rowe
    Feb 3 2026
    Martin Rowe is a long time technical editor for publications like EE World, EDN, and Test and Measurement World. He stops by The Amp Hour 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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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • #713 – Rubber Duck Incarnate

    #713 – Rubber Duck Incarnate
    Jan 26 2026
    Dave and Chris discuss staying connected while traveling, building terminal interfaces for custom hardware, using coding tools, the Teensy and recent events surrounding the manufacture, Zephyr, Raspberry Pi PIOs, and more!
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • #712 – Robots Everywhere with Aaed Musa

    #712 – Robots Everywhere with Aaed Musa
    Jan 20 2026
    Aaed is a YouTuber who builds a variety of robots and a mechanical engineering student at Purdue. He joins Chris to talk building robots and robotics components from the ground up, with a focus on lowering the cost and barrier to entry. They also discuss modern engineering education.
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    59 mins
  • #711 – Medical Electronics Education with Mark Palmeri

    #711 – Medical Electronics Education with Mark Palmeri
    Dec 22 2025
    Dr Mark Palmeri is a professor at Duke University in the Biomedical Engineering (BME) field. He joins Chris to talk about using open tools (KiCad, ngspice, Zephyr, Jupyter notebooks, Python) to build educational resources and how he shares those courses with the world outside of Duke. He also walks through the Tympanometer project, built with Duke BME Design Fellows.
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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • #710 – Tugging on the Nerd Heartstring

    #710 – Tugging on the Nerd Heartstring
    Dec 6 2025
    Dave and Chris are back after a long vacation absence to talk about high end events, new scopes, fast board assembly, and nerds nostalgic for the sci fi future that never was.
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    56 mins
  • #709 – Nobel Prize Winner Dr Barry Marshall

    #709 – Nobel Prize Winner Dr Barry Marshall
    Nov 10 2025
    Dr Barry Marshall won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.
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    50 mins
  • #708 – All the Connectors with Davide Andrea

    #708 – All the Connectors with Davide Andrea
    Nov 3 2025
    Davide Andrea is the author of The Electronic Connector Book and Principal of Elithion, a company that designs Battery Management System. He joins Chris to talk about the wide and wonderful world of connectors.
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    1 hr and 5 mins