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Design & Build

Various electronics design and build

EEVblog 1538 – NEW PROJECT Part 2 – Microcontroller Selection

Part 2 in the new project design series, selecting a microcontroller. 32 Bit Timers, Real Time Clocks, and LCD animation. If you find my videos useful you may consider supporting the EEVblog on Patreon Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1538-new-project-part-2-microcontroller-selection/ 00:00 – Searching for a microcontroller, the requirements 02:12 – 32 bit Timer 04:22 …

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EEVblog 1533 – How To Estimate Product Battery Life

How to estimate the battery life of a product. In this example, the BM786 multimeter. How to measure battery current accurately, avoiding Burden voltage, and looking at battery datasheets characteristic curves. The difference between alkaline and lithium primary batteries. If you find my videos useful you may consider supporting the …

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EEVblog 1512 – Why Bypass Your PCB Like THIS?

Why add bypass capacitors on a PCB like THIS? Answering a Twitter question: https://twitter.com/furan/status/1586889993234038786 https://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu/item/993-s3-supersavage-ixc-sdr Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1512-why-bypass-your-pcb-like-this/ Youtube: Odysee: Podcast: Download

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EEVblog 1504 – The COOL thing you MISSED at Tesla AI Day 2022

A very cool bit of electronics failure mode analysis that you missed at the 2022 Tesla AI Day presentation. And it’s got nothing to do with the Optimus Tesla Bot! A look at how ceramic capacitor vibration caused mechnical failure in a MEMS oscillator. Youtube: AI day video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODSJsviD_SU Forum: …

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EEVblog 1493 – MacGyver Project – Part 2

Powering up the Banshee ultrasonic leak detector LED display to see how the display is multiplexed turned out to be very interesting! With special guest debugger, Sagan, who invents a new industry term “free range data”. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1493-the-macgyver-project-part-2/ Youtube: Odysee: Podcast: Download

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