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Dave gets out of the lab for some fresh air, and a think about what the Makerbot $10M venture capital funding might mean. Podcast: Download

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

We interrupt your regular program with an update on Project Sagan. Sleep mode now fully debugged and working.

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 …

Just a quick one. Dave found the latest LOST easter egg in the Agilent 3000X/2000X series oscilloscope Ver1.2 firmware. Podcast: Download

What’s the easiest way to electronically trigger a mouse trap? Dave has an idea… Just don’t ask why, OK, Dave doesn’t know either… Podcast: Download

The greatest live show ever. World renowned guests, pyrotechnics, performing monkeys, aliens, marching bands, and the changing of the grenadier guards. No? Would you believe just two hours of Dave answering questions and yapping on? Yup. Podcast: Download

What’s more fun that reviewing the new iRiver Story HD Wi-Fi eBook Reader? Tearing it down of course! Dave cracks it open to see what’s inside. Hi-res photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eevblog/sets/72157627127757905/ And Yes, the JTAG pins are there, right under my nose as labeled test points. Left side of the …

Dave unboxes and reviews the latest iRiver Story HD Google Ebook Reader and compares it to his Amazon Kindle 3. How does it stack up? Podcast: Download

It’s been a while, so the next live show will be this Sunday Sydney time. That’s this Saturday for you Yanks. http://www.eevblog.com/live-show/ Sunday, 24 July 2011 at 00:00:00 UTC That’s Sunday, 24 July 2011 at 10:00:00 AM SYDNEY time.

Dave tears down the Tektronix TDS2000 series TDS2024C DSO, what’s inside? And he can’t help but rant about the sample memory size and compare it to the venerable TDS210 from 1997 or so… Podcast: Download

Part 3 of the hand soldering tutorial. This time Dave shows you how to drag solder and tack & reflow SMD components, and in particular 0.5mm fine pitch IC’s. Including solder paste and hot air. Podcast: Download