The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Chris Gammell in Chicago and Dave Jones in Sydney have been recording The Amp Hour weekly since 2010, making it one of the longest-running and most respected electronics podcasts in the world. Jones runs the well-known EEVblog YouTube channel, and Gammell founded Contextual Electronics, an online electronics education platform. Together they bring complementary perspectives -- Jones is the hardware tinkerer and test equipment enthusiast, Gammell leans more toward education and the business side of electronics. Each episode runs about an hour and is recorded live with no editing, which gives the show a raw, authentic feel. They cover semiconductor industry news, new test equipment releases, component shortages, PCB design tools, Arduino and Raspberry Pi developments, and the general state of the electronics industry. Every other week they bring on guests from across the field -- hobbyists working on passion projects, engineers at startups, executives at major semiconductor companies, and independent designers building products. The conversations cover everything from circuit design troubleshooting to Altium pricing controversies to the state of open-source hardware. What makes the show particularly valuable for electronics engineers is how naturally the hosts move between high-level industry trends and specific technical details. They will discuss a major acquisition in one segment and then spend twenty minutes debating oscilloscope features in the next. The back catalog runs to hundreds of episodes and serves as an informal history of the electronics industry over the past decade.