EEVblog – Podcast

What does the UL type approval compliance logo on consumer products mean? What about TUV, ETL, GS, CCC and other marks? Dave breaks down safety standards and compliance marks. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Can a product work without ANY bypass capacitors? Dave finds out by “Muntzing” the Gigatron TTL computer. Lots of interesting talk on bypassing, grounding, probing, signal integrity, ground loops and noise and crosstalk. Forum HERE Links: http://www.electronicdesign.com/boards/whats-all-muntzing-stuff-anyhow http://web.mst.edu/~jfan/slides/Archambeault1.pdf https://ewh.ieee.org/r3/enc/emcs/archive/2012-10-10b_DecouplingMyths.pdf http://www.ti.com/lit/ml/slyp173/slyp173.pdf https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug483_7Series_PCB.pdf https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/application_notes/xapp623.pdf Podcast: Download

Review of the Gigatron.io TTL 8 bit retro computer kit. The processor is built entirely using TTL logic. http://www.gigatron.io Live 4 hours build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wECZoUNd2GY Forum HERE Podcast: Download

More mailbag! Forum HERE SPOILERS: Brads Projects: https://bradsprojects.com/ Microelectronics Timeline Poster http://www.engineeringminds.org/ Big Clown IoT kit: http://igg.me/at/bigclown USB TouchPad: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jacoburge/touchpad-the-arduino-compatible-customisable-keybo Fluxgate compass teardown Oregon Scientific temperature sensor teardown CCES-33 Calculator Kit The crustiest multimeter teardown in history Alcatel 565 Mbit/s PDH mux Podcast: Download

A look at the amazing construction techniques used in the world’s thinnest calculator by Casio Destructive teardown on the Casio SL800 credit card calculator from 1983. It’s more interesting than expected! Forum HERE Podcast: Download