Episodes

  • The Focus Knob Works
    Aug 5 2026

    Dave and Chris celebrate 16 years of the show (1st episode was August 10th, 2010) by launching a brand-new static website featuring searchable transcripts and a "pissed-old amber" SVG scope with a working focus knob--and links to merch!. They also discuss Dave's new employee, 10 cent RISC-V debuggers, and why naming your startup after an un-Googleable Australian cryptid is a bad move

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    55 mins
  • The Amp Hour #729 - The Terahertz Frontier with Greg Charvat of Teradar
    Jul 22 2026

    Dr Greg Charvat, CTO and co-founder of Teradar, joins Chris for a 5th appearance on The Amp Hour to talk about how terahertz frequency radar will revolutionize the automotive space and far outstrips the capabilities of LIDAR and Blobbology

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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • The Amp Hour #728 - Space Age Bluetooth with Alex Haro
    Jul 9 2026

    Alex Haro, CEO of Hubble, joins Chris to talk about building a network of terrestrial and space (!) based Bluetooth infrastructure to track low power devices across the globe, without a data plan or a GPS module onboard.

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • The Amp Hour #727 - Boat Anchor Warehouse
    55 mins
  • The Amp Hour #726 - Arduino's Invisible Touch with Massimo Banzi
    Jun 17 2026

    Massimo Banzi is co-founder and figurehead of Arduino, the worldwide community built upon easily accessible embedded hardware. He joins Chris to talk about the design, rise, struggles, and eventual exit of the company, and what he's now doing with Supermoderno.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • The Amp Hour 725 - The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski
    Jun 4 2026

    Michał Zalewski (lcamtuf) is a security researcher, author, electronics enthusiast, and calculator collector. He joins Chris to talk about his new book The Secret Life of Circuits and his interest in the field of electronics and explaining things to others.

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    1 hr
  • The Amp Hour #724 - All Heat, No Useful Work
    May 25 2026

    Dave and Chris discuss the infrastructure and massive energy demands of AI data centers, injecting power through a programming header, Linux changes, and dogfooding your own projects.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • The Amp Hour #723 - BeagleBoard's Back with Jason Kridner
    1 hr and 11 mins