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Dave & Phil check out the world’s largest depth of field laser hologram display at Macquarie University. It was part of the Paula Dawson exhibition. The bar display is titled “To Absent Friends” This hologram was created in 1988 and is still the worlds largest to this day. They don’t …

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Dave grabs a few junkbox parts and builds a useful constant current load for switch mode power supply, battery testing, and other applications. Podcast: Download

The inaugural Dave Jones & Chris Gammell podcast radio show! An off-the-cuff podcast about electronics designs, and anything electronic industry related. Feedback, Comments, and Q&A questions invited for the next show! And we need a name for the show, all suggestions invited! Podcast: Download

Come behind the scenes on Karl von Moller’s latest documentary “State of Electronics”. Karl shows off his Canon 5D MKII HD video camera and accessories he is using to shoot the documentary. http://www.karlvonmoller.com Karl has been kind enough to share the how and why of “grading” And gives a sneak …

100 video blogs? Who would have thought Dave had it in him! Podcast: Download

PART 2 of 2 Dave compares six $100 Multimeters: BK Precision BK2709B http://www.tequipment.net/BK2709B.html Extech EX505 http://www.tequipment.net/ExtechEX505.asp Amprobe 34XR-A http://www.tequipment.net/Amprobe34XR-A.html UEi DM391 http://www.tequipment.net/UEiDM391.html IDEAL 61-342 http://www.tequipment.net/Ideal61-342.asp UNI-T UT61D http://www.uni-trend.com/UT61D.html Podcast: Download

PART 1 of 2 Dave compares six $100 Multimeters: BK Precision BK2709B http://www.tequipment.net/BK2709B.html Extech EX505 http://www.tequipment.net/ExtechEX505.asp Amprobe 34XR-A http://www.tequipment.net/Amprobe34XR-A.html UEi DM391 http://www.tequipment.net/UEiDM391.html IDEAL 61-342 http://www.tequipment.net/Ideal61-342.asp UNI-T UT61D http://www.uni-trend.com/UT61D.html Podcast: Download

Microsoft’s new Instaload battery technology allows batteries to be inserted into a product either way around. Is it one of those brilliant “why didn’t anyone think of that before” moments, or just another silly patent on a really obvious idea? Is it workable in practice? Can YOU bust the patent …

The 2nd EEVblog Live show. A whole bunch of stuff – Extech update, Agilent, Extech and BK Precison LCR meters, uCalc project, broken chairs, BP oil spill solution, the Large Hadron Collider, decade resistance boxes, multimeter shootout and countless more viewer questions. Podcast: Download

Off-Topic, but I know some people might be interested. A presentation I gave on the weekend about the early days of Geocaching. Warning – 50 minutes of random waffle!

Sorry for the short notice, a last minute decision. I’ll be doing another trial live show tomorrow (Monday 28th) 8am Sydney time (+10UTC EST) This is the time I have programmed into Ustream, but I heard a few people complain about a timezone goof last time. I think Ustream may …

Drive-Time. Dave rants randomly about TI’s bold new entry into the hobby/hacker/maker market with the $4.30 MSP-EXP430G2 Evaluation Board, and what it’s got to do with the Arduino. Podcast: DownloadPodcast (podcast2): Download

A bit of a follow-on from the linear regular episode. Dave dances with a simple linear closed loop circuit he built, and bodges it up in LTspice to get a remarkably consistent result. Not really a tutorial, just a few random tidbits. Podcast: Download