The Amp Hour

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• Seeed in Shenzhen with Eric Pan

  October 7, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

  Eric Pan is the founder and CEO of Seeed Studio, an open-source hardware and manufacturing platform based in Shenzhen, China. He joins Chris to discuss Seeed’s journey from early open-source roots to modern robotics, navigating the…

• The Onio Batteryless Vision with Kjetil Meisal

  September 24, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

  Kjetil Meisal, CEO and co-founder of Norwegian semiconductor startup ONiO, joins Chris to discuss the development of ONiO.zero, a revolutionary batteryless microcontroller powered entirely by ambient energy harvesting.

• The Walmart Greeter of Electronics

  September 18, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

  Dave and Chris catch up on the shift toward practical hands-on engineering education at universities, open-source robotics, calculator forensics, mentoring young engineers, AI-assisted PCB layout tools, reverse-engineering scope RF…

• Perpetual Wearable Biosensing with Andy Kong

  September 10, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

  Andy Kong is creating Chargerless, a pre-seed wearable biometric device that runs on 1 minute of sunshine per day. He joins Chris to talk about low power design, unconventional power schemes, the weird signals of the human body, and more.

• Hands-on Physical AI with Kevin Cloutier

  August 26, 2026 · 59 min

  Kevin Cloutier is the North American Lead for Physical AI at a global engineering consulting firm and a computer engineer who is passionate about taking complex computations to the edge. He joins Chris to discuss the transition from…

• E&M Reality Emerges with Robert Fennis

  August 19, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

  Robert Fennis joins Chris to demystify the black magic of RF and talk about his open-source, Python-based 3D electromagnetic solver, EMerge. They discuss why simulation is like building a pyramid of knowledge, how silk screen can…

• The Focus Knob Works

  August 5, 2026 · 55 min

  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!…

• The Terahertz Frontier with Greg Charvat of Teradar

  July 22, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

  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