Sagan joins Dave to open more packages, in everyone’s favorite segment Mailbag. 00:00 – The Connector Book! by Davide Andrea https://connectorbook.com/ Listen to Davide on The Amp Hour: https://theamphour.com/708-all-the-connectors-with-davide-andrea/ 11:02 – BLE CaberQu USB-C cable tester https://caberqu.com 22:02- Teardown of the CaberQu 24:22 – Snaptron FREE Sample Box https://www.snaptron.com/free-samples/sample-box/ 24:55 …
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Teardown of the classic Australian Made BWD 603B Minilab that was saved from the UTS dumpster. Schematic: Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1724-bwd-603b-minilab-retro-teardown/ Podcast: Download
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Review of the AlienTek DM40 Multimeter/Oscilloscope 00:00 – Alientek DM40C Multimeter and Oscilloscope 02:12 – Unboxing 03:51 – What’s with the rotating tilting bail? 06:15 – Power on 08:53 – The Trend Chart is really nice 10:19 – Online/Offline mode, what IS this? 11:58 – Banana jacks please 12:07 – …
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Re-telling of a manufacturing hardware war story talk I gave at a recent hardware meetup in Sydney. https://luma.com/Sydney-hardware-meetup?k=c How a simple manufacturing change cost a company millions of dollars. 00:00 – Sydney Hardware Meetup 01:16 – Seismic Oil Survey Exploration: How to find oil 03:29 – Seismic survey vessels are …
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Qualcomm have bought out Arduino, and several weeks later have altered the Terms & Conditions. Dave does a deep dive of the changes. https://www.arduino.cc/en/terms-conditions/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250912221625/https://www.arduino.cc/en/terms-conditions/ 00:00 – Qualcomm have acquired Arduino. I’ve got a bad feeling about this… 01:02 – How much did they pay for Arduino? 02:54 – They …
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More mailbag! 00:00 – Biggest mailbag load EVER. Too much random vintage USSR stuff to list… 26:24 – Logicgat Digital Logic training board. https://logicgat.es/ 31:22 – SLogic16U3 $69 USB3 800MHz Logic Analyser https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/logic_analyzer/slogic16u3/Introduction.html Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1720-mailbag-ussr-bonanza-logic-training-$69-logic-analyzer/ Podcast: Download
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Expanding the AERL home storage battery from 25kWh to 75kWh! Also replacing the 5kW Deye hybrid inverter with an 8kW Solis hybrid inverter. And installing a changeover switch to power most of the house from the Backup port in the new inverter. https://www.aerl.com.au/products/life2-battery https://www.thomsonenergy.com.au/ Solis s6-eh1p8k-l-plus-au https://www.solisinverters.au/uploads/files/202506/Solis_Manual_S6-EH1P(3-8)K-L-PLUS_AU_V1,1(20250530).pdf Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1719-75kwh-home-storage-battery-expansion/ 00:00 …
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What use is a 1GHz oscilloscope if it doesn’t have a high frequency active probe interface? Well, there are several options including a cheap $5 DIY resistive probe. Practical demonstration of active FET probing vs Passive Probing vs DIY Resistive probing. A lot of material extracted from videos 1367 and …
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Rigol have released the new MHO900 series mixed signal oscilloscope. For $999 entry level MHO934 you get 4CH 350MHz 12 bit at 4Gs/s, this is insane! Teardown of the special edition 1GHz MHO98 (still only $1399!) https://www.rigol.com/intl/products/oscilloscope/MHO900.html https://www.rigolna.com/products/digital-oscilloscopes/mho900/ In Australia: https://emona.com.au/quick-links/rigol/ 00:00 – Special Limited Edition MHO98 01:07 – DHO900 …
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A viewer went dumpster diving at the University of Technology and found some classics. Teardown and playing with a Kikusui DSS5040 Analog/Digital Storage scope. Plus a classic Australian BWD 603B Mini-Lab Manual: https://www.eevblog.com/files/Kikusui_DSS5040_E.pdf 00:00 – University Dumpster diving time! 02:46 – Kikusui DSS5040 Analog/Digital storage oscilloscope 07:12 – Teardown 10:51 …
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Swiss company Euler Precision have a new 3GHz active probe on Crowd Supply, let’s take a look. https://www.crowdsupply.com/euler-precision/esap-30 00:00 – The Euler Precision eSAP-30 Active Probe 01:26 – The problem with passive probes, Capacitance Reactance 03:31 – Unboxing 05:55 – Open Source? 06:46 – It’s all about the probe accessories …
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Classic intermittent “popping” noise from this Presonus Eris 5 studio monitor speaker. Electrolytic Capacitors are suspect number one. 00:00 – Faulty Presonus Eris 5 speaker. Classic “popping” sound. 03:48 – Teardown 07:16 – Testing for popping again 07:36 – Testing for hiss 08:32 – Rectified voltage testing 09:34 – Woah, …
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A look at the crazy ferrite core density in the Ampex 1600 16k x 18 bit word magnetic core memory from Ampex Memory Products Division, used in the Mitra 125S computer for the Spacelab program on the Space Shuttle. 00:00 – Magnetic core memory 01:52 – How magnetic core memory …
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A tour inside the brand new CSIRO Mobile Mission Control & Operations Centre, built inside a b-double truck. Dr Mark Dunn gives us a tour of the new fitout. https://research.csiro.au/moc/ Purpose-built, the b-double trailer deploys into a fully operational mission control centre that can accommodate up to 30 mission operators, …
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YouTube have just released new AI video Shorts features built into the Youtube app itself. Let’s create an AI slop Short in minutes using Veo 3 and see what fresh new hell you’re in for on Youtube. If you thought AI slop was already bad enough on Youtube, it’s just …
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