For an upcoming talk I built a stand-alone #hardwarehacking tool out of a R-Pi Pico that does Serial + #SPI Dump + #eMMC Dump with a bunch of stuff I wanted. It only needs your browser, and serves the webpage that is the interface from the micro. No internet, no install. github.com/colinoflynn/...
A still from happy gilmore with the text "Happy learned how to html/js/websocket - uh oh"
Me with LLM coding
In London and enjoy electronics? I'm arranging a meetup on March 8th: theamphour.com/london2026
On The Amp Hour I talked about upcoming travel, as well as topics like solid state transformers, battery testing, new small circuit boards, and a bunch more. Listen here: theamphour.com/717-back-on-...
The madlads at @pimoroni.com overclocked an RP2350 microcontroller from the base clock of 150 Mhz to a whopping 861.6 MHz.
It looks like 400-500 MHz can be stable on most Pico 2s, which is still wild.
See: learn.pimoroni.com/article/over...
If you like building things, you will love hearing Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky talk about his adventures building smart watches and rings on The Amp Hour this week. I know I did!
theamphour.com/715-shiny-ne...
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
Look at this specimen. The world has no chance.
When I meet someone who has covered the industry for 30+ years, I just have to get their stories on air. I asked Martin Rowe to be on The Amp Hour to talk about his experience covering the rise of the electronics industry from 1992 to present
theamphour.com/714-the-meas...
TL;DR: Empathy for what customers are going through with their own builds
Building hardware gets you into the nitty gritty details of building IoT products, including some of the challenges our customers run into with our services.
blog.golioth.io/why-build-ha...
Awesome, thanks for the photos and commentary! I am always amazed they managed to make this product battery replaceable, especially with the number of RF things they have onboard.
One benefit of coding assistants is in your head: you can ask silly questions and rubber duck your ideas (assuming you don't get too over-confident about the results). We discussed that and other things like Zephyr and rocket launches on The Amp Hour this week.
theamphour.com/713-rubber-d...
A nurse. A researcher. A helper.
If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?
[Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
Minnesota is the best of us.
Gov. Janet Mills: "If they have warrants, show the warrants. In America, we don't believe in secret arrests or secret police."
ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.
I think this is the first time we have had a full time student on The Amp Hour? But my goodness, what a student and what a guest! Aaed has been building robots on his YouTube and sharing what he does with others, lowering the cost and barrier to entry into #robotics
theamphour.com/712-robots-e...
The holidays are a great time to do some personal development (hacking) projects. Dylan and @szczys.bsky.social rebuilt a meme machine on top of @adafruit.com's MagTag board
Read more about the project and view the full video here: blog.golioth.io/a-physical-m...
Perhaps 2026 should be a year of less algorithmic discovery. Here's a start
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Oh...
The holidays are a great time to do some personal development (hacking) projects. Dylan and @szczys.bsky.social rebuilt a meme machine on top of @adafruit.com's MagTag board
Read more about the project and view the full video here: blog.golioth.io/a-physical-m...
One of the problems with all these early, and often ridiculous, product launches (robots, AI assistants) is that they play on the futurist nerd vibes and that gets us interested. OF COURSE I want a robot home assistant or a Star Trek style communicator.
theamphour.com/710-tugging-...
I'm sure I'll be back to posts links here randomly in another few months, but in the meantime, I have also created my own twitter/insta clone style microblogging setup on my website. I will try to create a thing that ties the RSS feed over here soon
chrisgammell.com/thoughts
Holidays sneaking up on me like...
Hey @altium-official.bsky.social I think we're due for another version of this song 17 years later, eh
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwtU...
A keycap-sized pcb with large and small letters printed on it in a 3x3 matrix, held in a hand
One of the more ludicrous (but delightful) boards I was given at #Supercon was this one - the CapKey. It's a capacitive-touch keyboard the size of a keycap.
Would tag the maker, but can't seem to find him!
An entire book about electronic connectors. You read that right. And I spoke with Davide Andrea about how he wrote it and all the tools he put online to support the book that are free. Fascinating discussion, check it out.
theamphour.com/708-all-the-...
200 Gbps analog IP blocks on leading edge 2 nm nodes from TSMC and Globalfoundries. No, I haven't magically gained superpowers, I instead talked with Joren Vaes about his work at SOFICS on The Amp Hour this week.
Learn all about analog chip design as I do on TAH706
theamphour.com/706-leading-...
A generative AI image of a Sin City style man showing the octopi that he is selling from his trenchcoat
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...
First thing I asked Jerry is how I can make better designs. It was...a multipart answer.
theamphour.com/704-applied-...
