I recently reworked the entire site of TheAmpHour.com to be static and hosted on Cloudflare. The new site is fast and has a scope animation that emulates an old analog scope in XY mode. We discussed the changes on the show this week, along with many other topics: theamphour.com/730-the-focu...

Just got done watching Jeroen Domburg's (Sprite_TM) keynote from Hackaday Europe back in May. Wow! As always, he throws down the gauntlet by building an SBC around a vintage 486 chip, then packages it in a handheld form factor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojQ9...

Hackaday Europe 2026: Jeroen Domburg - Building a Retro-PC from Components

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I got to talk to my old friend Greg Charvat about his new company Teradar on The Amp Hour this week. I think it has a huge opportunity to positively impact the #automotive industry replacing things like #radar and #lidar. I could see #robotics benefitting as well! theamphour.com/729-the-tera...

Wait...#bluetooth devices to like...SPACE space? Like ☝ 🛰️ 🌙 🌟 ?? theamphour.com/728-space-ag... I chatted with Alex Haro, the cofounder and CEO of Hubble Network about building out a terrrestrial network and a #satellite network to create connectivity for Bluetooth devices...just about anywhere.

This week on The Amp Hour we discussed a massive “boat anchor” warehouse clearance, 0201 circuit board builds, Texas Instruments’ stealthy datasheet updates for classic op-amps, the latest in local AI models, and paper-based electronics art theamphour.com/727-boat-anc...

The real question is: Do I need to use MBI-A-I-LA-TZ-CBV-HK-EATZCB-ERS or MBI-A-I-LA-CBV-MD-IST-EACBM-EES for my chip? I know I don't need to use MBI-A-RT-LA-I-TZ-CBV-HK-KS-HM-CIV-EATZCBE-ERS-EHKSF, since we don't want to load to RAM.

Excuse me, did you just call me a vibe coder? I went to college for this stuff! I'm a professional slopware engineer.

#Arduino has morphed in my mind over the years. From "low cost dev board" to "ad hoc standard" to "API interface to hardware". Abstraction away from specific hardware while still allowing users to stay very close to the hardware. Really enjoyed chatting w/ Massimo theamphour.com/the-amp-hour...

Michał Zalewski (lcamtuf) is a security researcher who deep dives into electronics for personal edification. So much so that he recently published a book on #electronics called The Secret Life of Circuits (published by No Starch Press, coupon code in the show notes linked below).

**JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil** I've been doing more work on the Pinecil recently with Bouffalo Lab BL706 (SiFive E24 core complex) support landing upstream in Zephyr. I wrote a short post detailing how to use a JLink for JTAG access to the RISC-V debug unit. danielmangum.com/posts/jlink-...

What are the impacts of infrastructure and massive energy demands of AI data centers? We also discussed injecting power through a programming header, Linux changes, and dogfooding your own projects. theamphour.com/724-all-heat...

Mike and I took a side quest from Madrid to Valencia to see the Tiny Tapeout master Matt Venn!

I saw that BeagleBoard.org recently joined Zephyr and I also saw the BeagleBadge at #ew26 a few weeks back, so I asked Jason to come back on The Amp Hour to talk about the latest and greatest in the world of Beagle. theamphour.com/723-beaglebo...

I figured out the building where they store all the capacitors in Madrid

A classic mistake: thinking the Assembly would be the majority of the work, when it's always the testing/fixing

Are #hardware and #firmware engineers keeping up with new #AI? The space is moving fast and I am clueless :-D I asked past guests Luke Beno and Matt Liberty to join me to talk about how they are using it in their businesses theamphour.com/722-ai-tooli...

In case anyone is still confused

I ignored all the OpenClaw stuff as hype and wild stories (because let's be honest, there's alot of that). But I have since tried it and I can see where it fits in the ecosystem. On The Amp Hour this week I also discussed how Golioth is now part of Canonical & more! theamphour.com/720-hyper-gr...

Zach is a PCB expert who does a bunch of content for Altium and other toolmakers. He joined me on The Amp Hour to discuss the changing tooling landscape around designing PCBs and how engineers can improve their work theamphour.com/718-layout-r...

I missed this when Mike posted it, but...ditto what he said!

Mike Szczys@szczys.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I don't tend to post a ton of people photos, maybe because when you work remote you don't see a ton of people. But here's about 60% of the awesome Golioth crew I've been working with the past several years. @jonathanberi.com @chrisgammell.bsky.social

For an upcoming talk I built a stand-alone #hardwarehacking tool out of a R-Pi Pico that does Serial + #SPI Dump + #eMMC Dump with a bunch of stuff I wanted. It only needs your browser, and serves the webpage that is the interface from the micro. No internet, no install. github.com/colinoflynn/...

Me with LLM coding

In London and enjoy electronics? I'm arranging a meetup on March 8th: theamphour.com/london2026 On The Amp Hour I talked about upcoming travel, as well as topics like solid state transformers, battery testing, new small circuit boards, and a bunch more. Listen here: theamphour.com/717-back-on-...

The madlads at @pimoroni.com overclocked an RP2350 microcontroller from the base clock of 150 Mhz to a whopping 861.6 MHz. It looks like 400-500 MHz can be stable on most Pico 2s, which is still wild. See: learn.pimoroni.com/article/over...

If you like building things, you will love hearing Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky talk about his adventures building smart watches and rings on The Amp Hour this week. I know I did! theamphour.com/715-shiny-ne...

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Look at this specimen. The world has no chance.

When I meet someone who has covered the industry for 30+ years, I just have to get their stories on air. I asked Martin Rowe to be on The Amp Hour to talk about his experience covering the rise of the electronics industry from 1992 to present theamphour.com/714-the-meas...

TL;DR: Empathy for what customers are going through with their own builds Building hardware gets you into the nitty gritty details of building IoT products, including some of the challenges our customers run into with our services. blog.golioth.io/why-build-ha...