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Dave looks at some issues with fanning out tiny 0.4mm pitch BGA packages, via pad and hole size, tenting, breakouts, solder mask expansion etc. And then compares it with an 1136 pin Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGA with 1mm pitch to show the difference in PCB process technologies needed. Forum HERE …

Forget Arduino & Raspberry Pi being the embedded platform computing standards, PC/104 has reigned supreme for over 25 years and is still THE industrial embedded computing standard. Dave boots up a 17 year old 80386SX PC-104 board with Disk On Chip flash drive. Well, after a lot of frustration anyway. …

Dave got hit with seven Copyright Content ID claims for background music used in his video, from a company called Adrev a.k.a “Adrev for Rights Holders” UPDATE: 2ND UPDATE: (From SmartSound) Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. We actually do not use AdRev, or any other …

What’s inside an implantable Medtronics Itrel 3 Neurostimulator designed for Neuropathic pain reduction. Dave tears into the ultrasonically welded titanium case. Manual HERE Forum HERE Podcast: Download

What’s inside this mystery dumpster dive PC? Will it work? Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Dave finally got hit by the dreaded Adpocalypse demonetisation on his Minute Physics / Bill Nye video. Also a look at the EEVblog advertising revenue and if its has been hit by the Adpocalypse advertising revenue drop in general. Views are compared with revenue to show any drop in ad …

A response to Minute Physics’s latest video promoting the Rayton Solar equity crowd funding campaign. Dave looks at Rayton Solar and it’s investment risk and practical viability and asks the question, should Minute Physics have promoted this? And they roped in Bill Nye too! Let me know what you think, …

What can you fit in 1K words of microcontroller program memory? Dave takes a look at two old projects of his published in Electronics Australia magazine using a PIC 16F84 with 1K of program memory. Will the assembly language code still compile first go in MPLABX after 18 years? Assembler …

Dave tears down the new Rigol DL3021 Electronic load and has a play around with it. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Another look at finding a $50 analog oscilloscope on ebay. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Dave tears down and takes a look at the classic 1980 Tandy / Radio Shack TRS-80 Colour Computer. Includes hacking a composite video output circuit to get it working on a modern HDMI computer monitor. Service Manual With Schematics Forum HERE Manuals HERE Podcast: Download

Is a $7 LCR Meter / Component Tester from Ebay any good? Dave tests the M328 (LCR-T4) model component tester. HUGE Forum Thread Forum summary videos HERE This group seems to maintain a version of the firmware: Podcast: Download

Dave gets IoT angry in this Mailbag Forum HERE SPOILERS: Bolt IoT challenge Dave to get an Internet Of Things App working in 5 minutes. Will he do it or will he lose his collective… Arduino based DIN rail PLC controller, the Controllino Total Solar Eclipse Stamps Polish 1980’s teardowns …

David explains PID controllers. First part of a mini-series on control theory. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Dave takes you on a complete walk-through of a typical (7400) digital logic datasheet and explains all the specifications and information. Forum HERE Podcast: Download