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#440.2 – Interviews with Greg Davill and Michael Ossmann
We sit down with Greg Davill and Michael Ossmann for two brief chats at KiCon 2019
#440.1 – An Interview with the core KiCad development team
This is the first of a couple episodes that will be posted from KiCon 2019. This interview was in two parts with some of the developers from the KiCad project. We talked with Wayne Stambaugh, Maciej "Orson" Suminski, Tomasz Wlostowski, Jon Evans,
The Amp Hour #439 – Grow A Superbrain
Chris and Dave discuss signal integrity, Kirchoff's current law and building up a new base of knowledge.
#438 – An Interview with Bart Dring
Bart Dring joins Chris to talk about CNCs, motion control and building custom robots.
#437 – An Interview with Chrissy Meyer
This week Chrissy Meyer of Root Ventures joins Chris to talk about DfM at large companies like Apple and Square. Also how these and other skills have translated into working with hardware startups in the venture world.
#436 – Downward Sloping Trace
This week Dave and Chris discuss logic analyzers, layout practice, CPLDs and how heat can stack up inside a design.
#435 – An Interview with Andreas Spiess
Andreas Spiess, "the guy with the Swiss accent" on YouTube, joins Chris to talk about connected devices and the importance of rules.
#434 – Use The Protection Circuit
Dave and Chris discuss freezing LCDs, the cost of prototypes, swapping layer polarity in layout, designing with custom parts, and how to interface to unprotected battery cells.
#433 – An Interview with Sam Stranks
Sam Stranks is a researcher, professor, and entrepreneur focused on making Perovskites into a commercially viable solar cell. The efficiency has been climbing at a rapid pace over the past 10 years. He joins Chris to talk about how Perovskites could le...
#432 – Check The Dummy Box
This week Dave and Chris discuss designing hardware without specifications, upcoming conferences, working with software services on distributed hardware and how to measure current over a large dynamic range.