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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)

A weekly podcast about the electronics industry. Occasional guests. Lots of laughs.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast - #466 –  An Interview with Ryan Cousins

#466 – An Interview with Ryan Cousins

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11/11/19 • 73 min

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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast - #459 – An Interview with Tom Lee

#459 – An Interview with Tom Lee

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09/23/19 • 74 min

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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast - #457 – Dotty Ernest Annty Frost

#457 – Dotty Ernest Annty Frost

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09/09/19 • 63 min

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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast - #488 – Sowing Discord

#488 – Sowing Discord

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04/13/20 • 73 min

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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast - #556 – Firmware for Hardware Engineers with Phillip Johnston
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09/07/21 • 79 min

Welcome Phillip Johnston of Embedded Artistry!

  • Phillip was on episode 290 of Embedded.fm
  • Phillip’s firmware experience started at a military contractor. He also had a programming background from high school.
  • The minimum product is a bootloader and has remote firmware update capabilities
  • General guidelines and design methodologies for writing better firmware
    • Separation of concerns: break things down smaller
    • How to hide information
    • Loosely coupled to the hardware
  • “How can I make this smaller?”
  • “Can I test this without the hardware?”
  • Either James Grenning / Jacob Beningo talk about “There is no spoon” and hardware is just another dependency.
  • Flex paging system example
  • Recorded data over the radio
  • Continuous Integration (CI)/ Continuous Deployment (CD)
  • Test Driven Development (TDD) is a well known software engineering concept that James Grenning teaches for embedded development
    • Start sketching out on the computer first
    • What interfaces do I need to create
    • Interface with sensors using a direct interface from the desktop like the Aardvark
    • Isolating someone else’s code into its own box
  • Writing it using x86 based GCC or CLang
  • Forces you to think about dependencies
  • Lager data episode with Akbar (hardware in the loop testing)
  • Setting up tests
  • E&O insurance
  • What does a test suite look like?
  • Phillip uses Jenkins for his build system, but there is also GitHub actions, circleCI, travis
  • Hardware in the loop test
  • When should people start CI?
  • Need to build from command line
  • Automated systems allows you to leverage yourself
  • Embedded Artistry has Courses that teach people how to build systems for their embedded systems
  • Design for Change is an upcoming course
  • Putting the pipeline in place
  • Start by checking code on the server
  • Having a shell on the device
  • What does ‘best’ look like?
  • Mixed metaphors in software
  • Dealing with multiple PCB builds
  • Dwigt
  • What happens when the complexity goes up (networking interface)?
  • Testing in more difficult environments
  • nRF5 SDK to Zephyr
  • Treat an RTOS like any other dependency
  • Zephyr
  • Low power seems to be lacking

Links from Embedded Artistry that our listeners might find useful, not already linked above:

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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast - #651 –  Learning Computing with Jeff Geerling

#651 – Learning Computing with Jeff Geerling

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11/21/23 • 63 min

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 videos with his Dad on the Geerling engineering channel
  • Ham radio vs broadcast
  • 1 Million Watts on the Supertower
  • Calling the FCC
  • CamOX facility
  • Keeping people interested during videos
  • Mars 400
  • RPi clusters
  • It’s a good exercise because it helps those building it understanding the limitation of spreading across computers
  • Drupal website on cluster
  • “The constraint gives me the story”
  • A good starter project? Maybe the project pi cluster
  • /r/homelab
  • NAS, monitoring, VPN, pidramble
  • Home Assistant
  • ESPhome
  • yaml files: better than xml, JSON is better
  • Devices should only be added to the house if they are: Local, additive, private
  • X10
  • Smart stuff in the house
  • Interested in the embedded side
  • LLM
  • Jeff became Chris’s de facto Pi5 analyst
  • RP1 episode
  • PCIexpress
  • Jeff discusses RISC V
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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast - #569 – Electric Fields, Son.

#569 – Electric Fields, Son.

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12/06/21 • 65 min

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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast - #572 – Technology Instruction with Charlie Larrabee
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01/10/22 • 74 min

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The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast - #467 – Stories from Supercon 2019

#467 – Stories from Supercon 2019

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11/18/19 • 97 min

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How many episodes does The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast have?

The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast currently has 232 episodes available.

What topics does The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts, Technology, Science and Physics.

What is the most popular episode on The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast?

The episode title '#498 – Quantum Computing with Andrea Morello' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast?

The average episode length on The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast is 75 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast released?

Episodes of The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast?

The first episode of The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast was released on Aug 28, 2019.

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