Can a young Dave Jones from the 1970’s design a better computer than The Woz and Steve Jobs with their Apple 1? Thanks to Sean Miller from Raising Awesome for filling in while I’m away. Check out his channel HERE Forum HERE Behind the scenes video on the making of …

In this guest video Karl Adams shows us how to measure low levels of distortion in audio circuits. The example used is an LM1875 in a compound configuration. Subscribe to Karl Forum HERE

In this guest video, Joel from OpenTechLab reviews and experiments with the IcoBoard, which features the Lattice iCE40 FPGA, and firmware synthesis with the Open Source “IceStorm” tool-chain. icoBOARD is a FPGA based IO board for the RaspberryPi Part 2 is on his channel Show Notes Subscribe to OpenTechLabs Forum …

Solar Freak’n Roadways is the LOL that keeps on giving! Watch the webcam LIVE Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Last mailbag for 2017! Forum HERE SPOILERS: 0:00 Isolated Serial UART Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/902741881/optically-isolated-usb-to-serial-adapter 4:19 TCXO Oven crystal oscillator teardown 17:07 uRad Environmental Monitor Products https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/air-quality-monitoring-network?secret_perk_token=70df5873#/ EEVblog Office Live Data: https://www.uradmonitor.com/?open=820000BE 20:37 Visual VU meter: http://sch-remote.com/ 23:25 Random LCD PCB thingo 25:32 Interesting construction industrial controller teardown 30:32 Open Source Servo …