EEVblog

The first EEVblog “RAW” Dave was assembling and testing some µCurrent kits on UStream and decided to record it. There is talk about his Keithly Instruments Voltage & Current sources, engineering statistics, and an open source hardware DIY Pick And Place machine. http://www.eevblog.com/ucurrent The thermal video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkVRX3h_A30 Around …

30 minutes of Dave twiddling knobs on a 2nd hand 50MHz Tektronix 2225 analog oscilloscope – it’s right here! Who else can get so excited about a 500uV/div vertical scale? Podcast: Download

Open your mind to Open Source Hardware. Dave gives you the low-down on what Open Source Hardware (OSHW) is, how it works, and some benefits of using it for your own projects. LINKS: http://freedomdefined.org/OSHW http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ http://www.ohwr.org/cernohl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGPL http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html Podcast: Download

Dave installs a new bench in the EEVblog lab. Car in the way? – no problem, just build over it! Podcast: Download

Dave recently implemented an Actel Ignoo Nano and Xilinx Spartan 3 FPGA into a design, so decided to share some rather random notes on how to implement the FPGA’s in this scenario. From datasheet specs, traps for young players, global clocks, FPGA fabrics, core power supplies and decoupling, getting the …