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Forum Topic HERE On August 5th/6th 2012 the NASA JPL Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover called Curiosity will land on Mars using an innovative new “Sky Crane” technique. Will it be systems engineering’s finest hour?, or a spectacular and costly failure? Podcast: Download

Forum Topic HERE Dave fixes his Makerbot Replicator, and rants about a few things… Podcast: Download

Forum Link HERE Teardown Tuesday. What makes the Makerbot Replicator tick? And the benefit of Open Source Hardware and NOT using the Non-Commercial license. Podcast: Download

Forum Topic HERE An update on the voice waveform in the Rigol DG4162 ARB Generator. Podcast: Download

Forum Topic HERE Some quick testing of a 2W DC-DC converter. Podcast: Download

Forum Topic HERE Unboxing and checking out the Rigol DSA815-TG 1.5GHz Spectrum Analyser and DG4162 Arbitrary Waveform Function Generator Podcast: Download

Forum Topic HERE And unboxing and preliminary review of Google’s new 7″ Nexus 7 Android Tablet Podcast: Download

Teardown Tuesday What’s inside Google’s new 7″ Nexus 7 Tablet? Dave’s does a teardown to find out. Podcast: Download

Forum Topic LINK Some vintage Psion and HP PDA technology. A breadboard battery PSU adapter: http://rayshobby.net/ http://www.microchip.com/mcp1640/ Podcast: Download

Forum Topic LINK A follow up to the first video about tinning PCB traces to decrease the resistance. How does Lead Free solder compare? Podcast: Download

Forum Topic Dave checks out the new Makerbot Replicator 3D printer and compares it to the old Thing-O-Matic. Podcast: Download

Forum Topic here Dave does some measurements on what effect “PCB tinning” has on the resistance of a PCB trace. Mike’s video Podcast: Download

Forum Topic HERE More pulser action with some high speed digital logic. And more playing with the Agilent 81160A PFANG and Agilent 13GHz 90000 series scope. Podcast: Download

UPDATE: Triosmartcal have withdrawn it from sale, and Korad are investigating… UPDATE2: Korad have admitted that the output transistors were not the correct type in this early batch unit. Forum Topic HERE Watch the Korad KA3005P FAIL! The review of course is not complete because there was nothing left working …

Teardown Tuesday. What’s inside the Korad KA3005P 30V 5A programmable power supply? http://www.triosmartcal.com.au/dc-programmable-supply/2647-ka3005p-programmab… $99 on Amazon Podcast: Download