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Dave opens up his Rigol DS1052E Oscilloscope, and ponders how to convert it into a DS1102E. And yes, he finally checks out the infamous ADC overclocking issue. Hires images: ADC & FPGA ADC Support Blackfin DSP Front End 1 Front End 2 Front End 3 PSU Buy the Rigol DS1052E …

It’s time for YOU to get involved and solve a hardware puzzle – what does this board do? Get your reverse engineering brain into gear and win a prize. High Res images 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 RULES: – Dave makes the rules and can …

While we’re on the subject, Dave talks about NiMH and NiCd battery charging methods. Podcast: Download

Dave cracks open the Varta 15 minute NiMH battery charger, what will he find? Podcast: Download

Dave has finally relented to the in-crowd and you can now follow him on his new EEVblog Twitter account. You’ll (hopefully) get the inside skinny on what Dave’s doing and what’s happening in the blog.

A blog so big it needed two parts. This time it’s all about ceramic capacitors, and that mysterious things of putting different vale capacitors in parallel. Not to mention microphonics. Podcast: Download

Dave attempts to give the low-down on different capacitor types in under 10 minutes, can he do it? (Hint – Dave likes to waffle…) Podcast: Download

Dave goes Back to the Future and powers up his old Tandy 1000 computer. Will it work?, will it choke? And how to channel your inner Woz to design your own Turbo Board. (Check out the ROM BIOS version 1.00.00 !!) Podcast: Download

Dave gets disturbingly emotional about microcontroller datasheets and documentation. LINKS: The NEC Micro datasheet(20pin) and datasheet(80pin) Podcast: Download

Dave checks out an el-cheapo Jaycar lab power supply. What do you get for 150 bucks? (Something went horribly wrong with the camcorder and the end summary didn’t get recorded, oops. It gets a thumbs sideways. Would have been better if it had better resolution on the adjustments, no overshoot, …

Dave cuts loose on the Golden Ear Audiophiles and all their Audiophoolery rubbish. Panasonic gets a serve too, or is that applause? The Blue Jeans cable LINK And Kurt Denke’s response to the infamous letter: LINK The Panasonic design guide is HERE and the rest of it HERE Post your …

Dave goes nuts over dodgy product design decisions in Canon DV camcorders, Fluke multimeters, Timex watches, Princeton Tec LED lights, and PVR’s. And how cool would it be to design farting gnomes? Podcast: Download

The EEVblog has been morphed from www.alternatezone.com/eevblog to www.eevblog.com Hopefully you shouldn’t even notice the difference, but I’m an electronics engineering nerd and not a Jolt Cola slurping computer geek, so something has bound to have gone wrong, possibly horribly… Let me know if you find any issues at all…

Yes, it’s another round of Electronics Engineering job interview tips. Techniques to help you stand out at the interview and secure that engineering job. See Blog #7 for the previous bunch of tips. (Note the record number of “you know”‘s!) Podcast: Download

All about Multimeter display counts, accuracy, and calibration. Podcast: Download