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The Amp Hour #724 - All Heat, No Useful Work

The Amp Hour

Release Date: 05/25/2026

The Focus Knob Works show art The Focus Knob Works

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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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The Amp Hour #729 - The Terahertz Frontier with Greg Charvat of Teradar show art The Amp Hour #729 - The Terahertz Frontier with Greg Charvat of Teradar

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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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The Amp Hour #728 - Space Age Bluetooth with Alex Haro show art The Amp Hour #728 - Space Age Bluetooth with Alex Haro

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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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The Amp Hour #727 - Boat Anchor Warehouse show art The Amp Hour #727 - Boat Anchor Warehouse

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The Amp Hour #726 - Arduino's Invisible Touch with Massimo Banzi show art The Amp Hour #726 - Arduino's Invisible Touch with Massimo Banzi

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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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The Amp Hour 725 - The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski show art The Amp Hour 725 - The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski

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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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The Amp Hour #724 - All Heat, No Useful Work show art The Amp Hour #724 - All Heat, No Useful Work

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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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The Amp Hour #723 - BeagleBoard's Back with Jason Kridner show art The Amp Hour #723 - BeagleBoard's Back with Jason Kridner

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The Amp Hour #722 - AI Tooling with Matt Liberty and Luke Beno show art The Amp Hour #722 - AI Tooling with Matt Liberty and Luke Beno

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The Amp Hour #721 - Chip Design for Fun (and Waffles) with Julia Desmazes show art The Amp Hour #721 - Chip Design for Fun (and Waffles) with Julia Desmazes

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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.