Michael from the Melbourne Connected Community Hackerspace talks about his large build area modular dual independent extruder 3D printer design project. Not much electronics talk here, it’s mostly about the hardware build. http://www.hackmelbourne.org/‎ http://www.3dprinterbits.com.au/ As usual, if you don’t like this type of content, don’t watch it. Forum HERE Podcast: …

Jonathan Oxer from Freetronics talks about the Ardusat project and shows his Arduino based cluster board for running Arduino sketches in space at the Melbourne Connected Community Hackerspace http://www.freetronics.com/pages/ardusat-the-arduino-satellite https://ardusat.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArduSat Forum HERE Podcast: Download

What’s inside a 9V Alkaline Battery? Are they all created the same? Is Duracell better than Energizer? Dave opens up Duracell, Energizer, Varta, and a no-name generic Alkaline 9V PP3 battery. Podcast: Download

What’s inside a modern car airbag controller? This is is from TRW and comes from a late model Hyundai. Datasheets: http://www.chemi-con.com/components/com_lcatalog/uploaded/4/7/6/19868903214d9b16734611d.pdf http://www.ihs.com/news/renesas-h8sx1725f-vehicle.htm http://www.epcos.com/inf/30/db/ind_2008/b82793c0_s0.pdf http://www.datasheetarchive.com/dl/Datasheets-SW2/DSASW0023111.pdf http://www.freescale.com/files/sensors/doc/data_sheet/MMA68xx.pdf http://cache.freescale.com/files/sensors/doc/data_sheet/MMA685x.pdf http://www.st.com/st-web-ui/static/active/en/resource/technical/document/datasheet/CD00103810.pdf Podcast: Download

Part 1 in a series of LTSPICE tutorial videos. In this introduction Dave explains what LTSPICE is and how to do the simplest of the SPICE analysis options – basic DC operating point analysis. Also how to draw basic schematics, display voltages and current on your schematic, and a beginner …