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T-shirts Are Back (2026)
The Amp Hour T-Shirt had been available for a long time at the Contextual Electronics store until it went defunct. As of today, there’s a new merchandise store for both Amp Hour and Contextual …
Schools out for (a couple weeks of) summer
We're relaxing and taking the summer easy (extra easy for Dave, where it's winter), so two weeks of no episodes. We should be back next week with a fresh one.
Summer Break Post: A reading/listening list
Dave and Chris will be off for this week due to travel and enjoying the summer weather (at least in the northern hemisphere). Click through for links to some older guest episodes we recommend for listening.
Our 2017 Scope Contest
Dave and Chris are giving away 2 scopes. Share your favorite episode with co-workers and friends to be entered to win.
The Amp Hour Meetup in Melbourne, April 18th
The Amp Hour (Chris) is doing a meetup in Melbourne. Click the title for more details. Don't forget to bring your projects!
The Amp Hour Meetup in Sydney, April 11th!
Dave and Chris will be doing what amounts to the first official Amp Hour meetup ever, as they will both be there! Bring your projects and hang out in downtown Sydney!
The Amp Hour SPACE SPECIAL! With Fran Blanche
Dave and Fran spend two hours nerding out about everything space related! (Click title or image to see YouTube video)
The Amp Hour Meetup in Wellington, 4/1
The Amp Hour (Chris) is doing a meetup in Wellington NZ. Click the title for more details. Don't forget to bring your projects.
The Amp Hour Meetup in Auckland, 3/30
The Amp Hour (Chris) is doing a meetup in Auckland NZ. Click the title for more details. Don't forget to bring your projects.
Call in show, Weds July 13th
Sign up to participate in Call In Show #5, recording Weds July 13th and airing on the following Thursday.
The Amp Hour (well, Chris) visits Denver!
Chris will be holding a meetup in Denver on Sunday (5/29) at 4 pm at Black Sky Brewery.
Sign up to call in (#4)!
New for this show: You must send in your Skype account name. We will be sending you a link to a chat room for the show. Callers can then figure out who will be calling in first, second, third, etc. …
More Ways To Call-In!
For the upcoming call-in show to be recorded Feb 24, we are adding even more ways to ask questions on air.
The Embedded call-in show is January 6th
We will be having a call in show with Elecia and Chris White of Embedded.fm this Wednesday January 6th at 5 pm PST / 8 PM EST. Click here to look up your localized time.
We will be doing the show …
Get ready for call in show #2!
We will be having our second call-in show after a successful first round. The call will start at 8 pm EST on December 16th. Check out this link to see when the call will be in your local time.
How …
Turkey Time!
We took (another) week off because of the Thanksgiving Holidays in the US. We'll be back with call-in shows and guest episodes in December!
The Amp Hour Call In Show! (Experiment)
Chris and Dave will be trying a call-in show in order to directly interact and problem solve with members of The Amp Hour audience. Consider calling in!
Take The Amp Hour 2015 Listener Survey
Help us out by taking our survey! We use this information to attempt to make a better show for you! Take the survey now!
T-shirt is back for a limited time
Classic Black T-shirt with The Amp Hour logo, available on Teespring again until June 15th! http://teespring.com/theamphour-black.
Off By One Error
Off By One Error Due to Chris being sick this week, we'll be releasing the show a day later than normal. The Amp Hour release may just line up with your weekend projects, start thinking about them …
Extenuating Circumstances This Week
https://twitter.com/eevblog/status/534685173606916096
But as a consolation, Dave will have some interesting things to discuss next week!
https://twitter.com/eevblog/status/535020818959319041
In the …
Show being moved to Wednesday evening release
Due to some scheduling changes in our lives, we’re going to be moving the release of The Amp Hour to Wednesday evening. Since we know some of you depend on episodes to get you through your …
New Black T-shirt Campaign Started
It’s been a while since we have done a teespring campaign for our standard black t-shirt. We thought we would start another campaign with a 7 day window and also offer women’s size shirts …
The Amp Hour Now Has An...App?
Yup, that’s right. And it was Dave’s idea!
We have been using LibSyn for a while now and really really love the service they give us. They are our CDN, which means the shows are …
A Bit Of Two Way Communication
A fun new (old) feature so we can hopefully keep in touch better and serve the listening audience with what they want!
A New Look For 2014
One thing we’ve always known is that our site hasn’t looked particularly good. You may recall the old days of what looked like a desk with tools scattered about. And then the most recent …
White T-shirts Now Available!
Didn’t get your fill the first time around with the black t-shirts? Want to get a second one? Or maybe you missed the first campaign and can’t stand to go another day without wearing The …
The Amp Hour Meetup at OHSummit!
We’re confirmed! (finally) Here’s the plan!
Thursday, September 5th, 2013 Think you’ll be there? Let us know in the comments!
5:00 pm Tour Bolt Accelerator! See one of the newest …
Get your questions in for Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup"
We will be having Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" on the show to discuss new methodologies to start companies and run R&D departments.
This Week: Sparkfun Engineering Melee!
We will be trying an interesting experiment here on The Amp Hour this week. We’ll be attempting to interview the entire Sparkfun Engineering team on the show. Mike Hord (@uptownmaker) has been …
The Amp Hour Minus The Amp Hour
After a long night of editing audio, Chris went a little insane and started wondering what it would sound like if it was just he and Dave laughing on The Amp Hour. Instead, urged on by Steve Hoefer …
Ongoing T-Shirt Contest
Want to win a t-shirt from The Amp Hour?
Submit a story to the /r/TheAmpHour subreddit and if we talk about the link you submit or the topic you’d like us to discuss on the show, we’ll put …
Winners From The Learning Survey Notified!
Thank you to everyone who participated in the learning survey for The Amp Hour. We have notified the people who have won and have sent them codes for their very own “The Amp Hour” t-shirt. …
The Amp Hour 2013 Listener Survey Results
Thanks to everyone who participated in The Amp Hour 2013 Survey! We'll have more surveys in the future for The Amp Hour t-shirts and other goodies. Check out the results below!
Sorry about that last …
The Amp Hour Learning Survey
The form looks a little long, but the questions are easy! We’d love to know more about how you’ve learned in the past or how you are learning now.
Also, to sweeten the deal, we’ll …
The Amp Hour Meetup At Hamvention!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mwimZ6xt6c We will be having a meetup at the Hamvention in Dayton, OH! It will be at a local pub/restaurant after the Saturday activities (and hopefully before any …
Be one of the first to own the Black "Keep Current" T-shirt
We’re trying out a relatively new service in town called Tee Spring, with a familiar idea behind it: We’ll be “crowd funding” the first round of t-shirts for listeners of The …
First Round of T-shirts!
We’ve been dragging this out for far too long, but wanted to finally share the t-shirt design we like best. We hope to have a few designs released before the big shows coming up in May (Maker …
Please fill out the 2013 Listener Survey!
That time has come once again to gather feedback about our audience and how annoying you find us. Please fill out the survey below. If you’d like to be entered to win a t-shirt from The Amp …
Moving to Tuesday/Wednesday Release Dates
Hi Everyone,
In an effort to have better edited audio and better checked show notes, we’re going to be moving the day we release the audio to the public back by one day. Previously it was …
Malware Issues
Hey Folks,
We’ve been having some reports of malware on TheAmpHour.com for the past few days. We have been trying to clean it up as it pops up, but it seems there is a much more pervasive issue …
Get your questions in for Mike Harrison of Mike's Electric Stuff!
You’ve seen his videos (right??), what do you want him to ask him about?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55z_0BYb5is
You can also ask your questions on our subreddit page for this show.
Get Your Questions In For The CEO and VP of Engineering of Touchstone Semiconductor!
This coming week, we’ll have our first chief executive on The Amp Hour. Fear not! Brett Fox, CEO of Touchstone Semiconductor, is a former engineer and still remains close to the technology. Dr …
Listener Question Show!
Hey Everyone! Happy New Year!
As mentioned in the last episode of 2012, we will be answering listener questions for our first show of the year! We’re always up for answering questions, of …
Day Change
Much like daylight savings time changes which can throw schedules into mayhem, Dave and Chris’s schedules also can change. And in fact, they have! So for the foreseeable future, we’ll be …
Get In Your Questions For Dr. Greg Charvat
Head over to the subreddit to see all the amazing work he has done and to ask your questions for Greg! We can't wait for him to be on the show!
East meets West
This coming week we’ll be interviewing Scott Miller, founder of Dragon Innovation.
“Well I’ve never heard of that company!”, you say. Well, that might be the case, but …
A Day Late And A Few Questions Short
Due to the US holiday coming up on Monday, we’ll be one day delayed from our normal recording and posting time. The show will be available late Monday night/early Tuesday morning.
This week, …
We're Back...And Sorry
This past week on Thursday, our server had an unwelcome guest. He decided it would be fun to send out emails about C1al1s and such from our server. As such, we had it shut down while we took care of …
Requesting Feedback on TheAmpHour.com
We’ve seen a significant drop off in the commenting and usage of TheAmpHour.com. Not so much so that we’re worried about the site being broken, as much we are worried about offering a …
Chris Anderson on The Amp Hour this week!
This coming week, we’re pleased to welcome Chris Anderson!
Chris is the editor of Wired and has been for 11 years. He is also a co-Founder of DIY drones, a 20,000+ strong community of UAV …
Discuss Server Working Again
Sorry about the mixup. A few updates on other parts of the server caused the redirection to break on the Discuss Server. If you ever notice that in the future, please feel free to email me at chris …
Get Your Questions In For An FPGA Chip Design Veteran
Philip Freidin was an architect of RISC (AM29000) and Bit-Slice (AM2900/29300) while at AMD. Later, while at Xilinx, he architected FPGAs such as the XC4000, Virtex, Virtex2, Virtex4 and the Spartan. …
Guest Questions and News Items
As you all hopefully have heard by now, we launched the “Discuss” section of The Amp Hour this past weekend. Though it may be an unfamiliar format, we’re really hoping that listeners …
Server Switchover (Done!)
Thanks to all of our wonderful donors, we’ve been able to upgrade some of our web server equipment and begin offering more services in the near future. As such, we just switched over from our …
Slight Delay
We’ve been on a pretty decent schedule recently about posting by Sunday night/early Monday morning. However, this evening we had some technical difficulties in the audio; as a result, we are …
Dissimulated Demigration Dontopedalogy
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April fool's joke went a little too well. We are not joining Tested.com but we appreciate all the congratulations we received (we'll pretend it was for our superior acting skills...) …
The Amp Hour 2012 Survey Results
Classic Amp Hour Move -- Not Looking At The Calendar
Hi Everyone,
Last week we asked for your questions for Bunnie Huang. Good news! You get another week!
It turns out I (Chris here) didn’t look at the calendar nor my email with Bunnie about him …
Get Your Questions In For Bunnie Huang!
Prolific hacker and maker Bunnie Huang, founder of Chumby, will be on the show next week. Our timezones don’t line up well, so there may be a possibility of glitches and/or rescheduling, but we …
Get your questions in for Dr. Howard Johnson!
Dr. Howard Johnson, master of the black magic of high speed digital signals, will be our guest on next week’s show! We have a few questions cooked up for him, but want to know what our audience …
Reminder: Get your LED based questions in for John Edmond of Cree
While we don’t usually post much that isn’t a new episdoe, we also usually don’t get such high profile guests on our show. This coming Monday we’ll have the Director Advanced …
Ack! Reset!
While I don’t think this will affect listeners as much as it will affect us, the stats on all of our shows reset recently. Specifically on Tuesday. And more specifically, by me. By accident. I …
A Widlar Poster For The Ages
Listener and WotW alum Jaime (@jpwack) wanted a poster to put up on his friend’s bench. The friend was…how to say it…analog-averse? Here’s the Widlar shot from Paul …
Soon Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Program...
Dave and I missed our usual Monday/Tuesday recording so I thought I’d do a little “snow and tell” (ha!) to give an idea of the stuff I have to wade through on Monday afternoons in …
How To Say "555 Timer"
Here's the big summary: And by region: North America: South America: Africa: Europe: Australia/NZ/Pacific: Asia: Thanks to everyone who participated. It was fun to see how people around the world call …
How Do You Say 555 Timer?
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Foiled Again!
Here at the Amp Hour we do electronics. We don’t do timezones very well. We’re starting to think that we should make some kind of global clock that always knows the time…or we could …
Survey Results!
Thanks again to everyone who filled out the survey. We got some fun responses (as I mentioned in Episode 8) and we’ll continue going through them for ideas and suggestions. Don’t think we …
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Guess Much?
So Dave and I check traffic sometimes. Lately, we’ve been seeing natural spikes in traffic around Monday or so. You guessed right, we usually record on Monday evenings and try to post that …
Basement Studio
Since I was talking about it in a few previous episodes and was down there “cleaning” today (it’ll never be clean), I thought I’d take a picture of where I’m recording …
New Theme!
So what is a website–yes, even an audio based website–without a distinctive theme? Well, it was this website before this weekend. But alas! Chris has spent some time digging into CSS and …
Our New Home!
This is the new home of the Dave Jones and Chris Gammell Radio Show!
Many thanks to Mike from Mike’s Electric Stuff for helping us name the show. There were many other wonderful suggestions at …