The Amp Hour

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alex is founder and CEO of Efficient Power Conversion, a leading manufacurer of GaN MOSFET's. Alex is also the inventor of the original Power MOSFET and HEXFET at International Rectifier. Also, former CEO of International Rectifier (founded by his father!),  https://epc-co.com We cover everything from inventing the power MOSFET on his first day on the job to silicon physics, AI data centres and humanoid robots. Enjoy.

Dr Barry Marshall won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. But Barry is also an electronics hobbyist and vintage HP and Tek oscilloscope and vintage computer enthusiast. He visited the EEVBlog and sat down with Dave for an impromptu discussion about all sorts of things. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2005/marshall/facts/

A full 3 hour discussion with the legendary Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1, SOL computer, VDM-1, Pennywhistle modem, and the inventor of social media. Covering everything from the Berkeley free speech movement, the counterculture movement, his career, through to Obsorne and how he invented social media with Community Memory. His book: https://www.amazon.com/Me-My-Big-Idea... https://felsensigns.com/ 00:00 - Full 3 hour talk with Lee Felsenstein 08:24 - University of California at Berkeley, and the Free Speech Movement. 29:04 - First Junior Engineer job at Ampex 36:20 - The first hackathons with Richard Greenblatt 37:33 - Hackers, Heros of the computer revolution 1:03:36 - Techical career at Ampex 1:12:52 - Atari Computers and Steve Jobs, Nolan Bushnall, and Allan Alcorn 1:15:00 - He tried to pitch social media to Steve Jobs 1:22:15 - Designing the Pennywhistle 103 modem + 1:25:36 - Marty Spergel selling kits 1:31:53 - Steve Wozniak and how the Apple 1 is NOT a personal computer 1:43:42 - Osborne Computers 1:53:22 - Osborne 1 physical design 1:57:57 - Osborne 1 development timeline 2:01:19 - The Osborne Effect wasn't what killed the company

Dan Esparon from Inovor Technologies in South Australia joins Dave to discuss all about designing and launching satellites!