Posts made in October, 2010

The Amp Hour #14 — China, Entrepreneurs and Blue Collar Reality

Dave made it home safe and sound! We’re glad to have him back and appreciate Jeff from MightyOhm stepping up to the plate in his absence. This week we jumped right past the videos Dave plans on posting and into talking about current events, so why don’t we do the same with the links?

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It was good to have Dave back and us making fun of one another from different continents. Something about that just seems right. Do you have something to make fun of us about? Did we miss or mess something up? Let us know in the comments!

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The Amp Hour #13 — Chips And Fabs And Garages

Holy YouTube clips, Batman! We have tons of clips this week. Me and our special guest were talking about lots of stuff and it turns out many of them were video based. We can’t wait to see many of Dave’s videos, he’s still traveling around and is still working on editing and uploading many of them. On to the links!

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Thanks (again) to Jeff from Mighty Ohm for sitting in on The Amp Hour! It was really fun talking to him again and we appreciate it!

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The Amp Hour #12 — Dave Is Back And Blogging!

Dave is back! And blogging from a hotel room, just like Chris did in episode 9 of the Amp Hour. He has lots of great videos he made at Renesas Dev Con and some good stories and experiences. On to the links!

Dave recording the show in the hotel room

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That’s it for this episode. Keep your eye on EEVblog or YouTube, no videos of Dave’s presentation yet but we’ll be watching to see if he remembered to mention The Amp Hour!

Note: We still see random 502 and timeout errors which we think are still server side. Please keep trying to download the episode if it doesn’t work the first time.

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Audio Issues

We’ve already had some reports of issues with downloading episode 11 of the Amp Hour (and my abhorrent impression of Dave!). We’re not yet sure if it is the server or the podcasting software or the audio itself that is at fault. Here is the direct link:

Direct link to download The Amp Hour #11 (Right click and “save as” to download)

Please let us know in the comments below if you’re still having problems or if you find a way that lets you definitively download the episode. Thanks!

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The Amp Hour #11 — Ardui…no Dave This Week?

NOTE: I apologize about the sound quality on this recording. Thanks to the Zoom H1 autogain (very bad thing) and recording in a cubby like desk at my house (nearly as bad as the autogain) I sound like a mouth breathing, key pounding cubby troll. I’m very sorry and I tried to fix it best I could. If you hear the occasional ramp up of background noise or mouth breathing, forgive me.

So did my Dave Jones impression fool you? No? I thought it was pretty bad as well. Dave is unfortunately under the weather and was not up to doing a show this week. In all honesty, he is rightly saving his voice for his upcoming trip to the US! Very exciting for him! And of course very exciting for Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory, as Dave Jones will be attending his taping! I know I’d be pumped!

Anyway, we were very lucky to have Jeff Keyzer of Mighty Ohm join me in Dave’s stead this week. Jeff explained more about his background during the show, so onto the links!

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If we missed anything or if you have other magazines that are similar to Silicon Chip or Elektor, please leave them in the comments. Thanks again to Jeff for helping out this week!

NOTE: I apologize about the sound quality on this recording. Jeff actually went out of his way to try and get a good setup but then I go use my Zoom H1 with the autogain on (very bad thing) in a cubby like desk at my house (nearly as bad as the autogain). I’m very sorry and will try to fix it next week.

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