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If you can read this, then the server move worked and you are now using the new dedicated server! The site and the forum should now both be MUCH faster. Please report any problems. Big thanks to @alangarf for helping with all the penguin stuff when shit hit the fan! …

Heads up for Aussies. I’ll be at the Electronex show in Melbourne this Wednesday. If you see me, stop and say HI. I’m the stupid looking guy carrying around the camera gear, hard to miss. In fact, the first person to track me down at the show and shout out …

Dave reflects on 200 episodes, his full time video blogging, and talks about some stats and the future of the blog. Podcast: Download

UPDATE: It didn’t go as smoothly as predicted, so we are back on the old HostMonster server for now. Progress continues in the background as time permits… Feel free to post comments and use the forum and site as usual. ——————————— I’m currently moving the site and forum to a …

Part 2 of the Tektronix MDO4000 Mixed Domain Oscilloscope review. This time, a world exclusive tear down. What magic lurks inside the die-cast shielded RF spectrum analyzer circuitry? Podcast: Download

In another world exclusive, Dave reviews Tektronix’s new Mixed Domain Oscilloscope, the MDO4000 series that is released TODAY. Does it live up to the hype of changing the oscilloscope landscape and creating a new oscilloscope category? Also, it is a review of the MSO4000 series Mixed Signal Oscilloscope. How does …

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