Dave takes a quick look at the spectacularly cheap $20 DPS series CC/CV modules from RD Tech. How to make a 30V 3A bench power supply with 1mA resolution constant current limiting and multi function display using a junk bin enclosure and a junked plugpack or old computer power supply. …

Dave looks at some issues with fanning out tiny 0.4mm pitch BGA packages, via pad and hole size, tenting, breakouts, solder mask expansion etc. And then compares it with an 1136 pin Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGA with 1mm pitch to show the difference in PCB process technologies needed. Forum HERE …

Forget Arduino & Raspberry Pi being the embedded platform computing standards, PC/104 has reigned supreme for over 25 years and is still THE industrial embedded computing standard. Dave boots up a 17 year old 80386SX PC-104 board with Disk On Chip flash drive. Well, after a lot of frustration anyway. …

Dave got hit with seven Copyright Content ID claims for background music used in his video, from a company called Adrev a.k.a “Adrev for Rights Holders” UPDATE: 2ND UPDATE: (From SmartSound) Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. We actually do not use AdRev, or any other …

What’s inside an implantable Medtronics Itrel 3 Neurostimulator designed for Neuropathic pain reduction. Dave tears into the ultrasonically welded titanium case. Manual HERE Forum HERE Podcast: Download