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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · 7h

I've been 3D printing up a storm on to hook things onto DIN rail and talked about that and many other things on The Amp Hour this week

theamphour.com/705-psst-hey...

A generative AI image of a Sin City style man showing the octopi that he is selling from his trenchcoat

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · 6d

First thing I asked Jerry is how I can make better designs. It was...a multipart answer.

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#704 – Applied Embedded Electronics with Jerry Twomey | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Jerry Twomey, author of Applied Embedded Electronics, joins Chris to talk about how to build more reliable hardware when there are embedded components involved. And these days, there are almost…

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wafer.space @wafer.space · 14d

@mith.ro was interviewed by @chrisgammell.bsky.social about the @wafer.space service!

Find out more at wafer.space!

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Tim 'mithro' Ansell @mith.ro · 14d

It was awesome to be on @chrisgammell.bsky.social 's Amp Hour podcast again. Find out more about my latest endeavor to make custom silicon manufacturing accessible and follow @wafer.space and bookmark wafer.space to keep up to date!

Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · 14d

What happens when one of the main providers that enables #opensource #silicon to thrive...shuts down? Companies like @mith.ro's new wafer.space jump in and offer an even more compelling option. $7K for 1000 chips on the GlobalFoundries GF180MCU process. Learn more:

theamphour.com/703-building...

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · 14d

What happens when one of the main providers that enables #opensource #silicon to thrive...shuts down? Companies like @mith.ro's new wafer.space jump in and offer an even more compelling option. $7K for 1000 chips on the GlobalFoundries GF180MCU process. Learn more:

theamphour.com/703-building...

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · 21d

Custom jig, custom "chip holding solution" 😂

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · 24d

You ever re-learn that lesson over and over to make larger test points? Yeah, me neither

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#702 – Test Point Accupuncture | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Dave and Chris discuss solar, nuclear, making new injection molds from old ones (or not), and how to probe poorly placed test points with tiny needles.

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Aug 22

Looks awesome! What's the price range?

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Aug 21

Many thanks to @szczys.bsky.social, without whose adeptness at building drivers for Zephyr...this board would be an inert lump of fiberglass and silicon :-D

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Aug 21

More open source hardware! This one is a smaller add-on board, but in service of making lots of #bluetooth nodes that connect using Golioth's Bluetooth-to-Cloud service.

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Aug 8

With #tariffs in the US and different PCB assembly options, it can be tough to optimize for cost on a project. I talked about my experience using JLC assembly + #KiCad on episode 700 of The Amp Hour. Other topics included #solar, #batteries, #bluetooth.

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Aug 1

12 years ago, I talked to Andrew Seddon who was building a datasheet/footprint tool for #PCBdesigners. CircuitHub has since transformed into a digital factory for on-demand PCB assembly. We discussed #tariffs, #domesticmanufacturing, AI changes that to the industry

theamphour.com/699-circuith...

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Jul 22

How hardware engineers fall asleep

(an #asmr reading the #eu #cyber resilience act)

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Jul 18

Another Hardware Happy Hour is coming up on July 29th in Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill (and actually Cary for this one). Please share it with anyone you know in the area who might be interested: lu.ma/s3jyicee

3H, summer in the city · Luma

Electronics work great in the heat, right? This is our July Hardware Happy Hour, and we're going to try out another new spot! We'll be going to Rosecomb Beer…

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Jul 17

I love watching Matt Brown's videos reverse engineering #iot products that have ...let's say "less than stellar" security implemented. He shows his hardwaer #reverseengineering and we get to follow along and learn with him.

I talked to Matt on ep698 of The Amp Hour

theamphour.com/698-hardware...

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Jul 10

Tim from Mitxela kind of does it all: (super tiny) electrical, (super tightly written) firmware, (super nicely finished) mechanical. We dug into what motivates him to keep making and how he hyper optimized things like the fluid (LED) pendant.

Check it out here: theamphour.com/697-leds-eve...

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Jun 24

I have always wanted something like an #ssh connection to the #iot devices I work on. Today we published about how to use #Golioth RPCs and a simple front end to do just that.

glth.io/remote-shell

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Jun 24

Fun fact: MCP Servers aren't new, they actually have been around for a long time but Clippy (the original AI agent) got TOO powerful

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Common Ground Electronics @cgnd.dev · Jun 10

I'll be speaking at @crowdsupply.bsky.social #Teardown2025 in just over a week!

I'll walk through how to automatically generate a #KiCad database library based on part data stored in Aligni #PLM software.

Slide deck PDF in the link below if you want to take a sneak peek:

cgnd.dev/posts/teardo...

Teardown 2025 Talk: Are we PLM yet?

Teardown 2025 Talk: Are we PLM yet? A beginners introduction to product lifecycle management for KiCad.

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Jun 23

Me running a Discourse forum in 2025 trying to determine if a post was written by a human...

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Jun 20

Let my FOMO...commence! :-D

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Jun 6

Do you understand how #RF and #magnetics work? Any time I check out Sam Aldhaher's visualizations, I do just a bit better. We spoke on The Amp Hour this week about how to get started in #blender and build out visualizations using tools like #openems and #elmer_fem.

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Jun 5

I'm working on a video where Rajeev from Conexio optimized a #zephyrrtos program and hardware configuration to send every hour without needing batteries. Uses a Nordic nRF9151, solar panel, and supercap

blog.golioth.io/upcoming-web...

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · Jun 4

If you haven't seen Sam Aldhaher's visualization of #RF signals, you're missing out! I got to speak with him on #TheAmpHour this week and loved learning how #Blender can be used as not just visualization, but also a tool for calculation (with the plugin ecosystem) theamphour.com/695-making-t...

#695 – Making The Invisible, Visible with Sam Aldhaher | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Sam Aldhaher is a power engineer and 3D graphic artist, his Blender visualizations have helped many people understand how RF flows in a variety of circuits. Sam joins Chris to talk about how to get…

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · May 13

Really enjoyed having Colin O'Flynn back on the show for a 3rd time. We chatted security, FPGAs, small scale electronics manufacturing, and the world of academia.

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#693 – Small Scale Electronics Manufacturing with Colin O’Flynn | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

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