For sixteen years, two engineers and their guests have said the quiet part out loud on The Amp Hour — the rules of thumb, the failure modes, the numbers that never reach a datasheet. 719 episodes, distilled into articles where every claim is cited.
“a 24 bit ADC doesn't actually give you 24 usable bits out”
Real data on a real instrument: mentions per year across the whole corpus. Switch channels.
Every article is the output of a verified pipeline — and every claim traces to a verbatim transcript passage.
Not summaries. The specific, transferable stuff.
On the Steam Controller, Valve version-locked Altium 12 for the whole project — every engineer on the same build, because a mid-project CAD upgrade is a risk you don't take.
The 12-bit ADC inside a Bluetooth SoC measured three effective bits — adequate only for confirming whether a load is on.
A $3,000, 24-hour PCB layout service exists — with explicit limits: under 3 A, under 500 MHz, under 20 W.