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Dave shows you how you can set up an electronics lab for only a few hundred bucks. Multimeter, oscilloscope, power supply, function generator, soldering station, solder, wire, tools, microscope and magnifier, and components. The previous video HERE Forum HERE Links: UT136B Multimeter OWON VDS1022I USB Oscilloscope YiHUA 936 Soldering Station …

More on the nixe tube driver chip, testing for bias glow and clamp voltages. Schematic design in Altium Designer. Selection of the Wifi ESP8266 module Traps in 3.3V / 5V logic level translation. Design tip for neat schematics. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Mailbag overload! Forum HERE SPOILERS: A watch made from a old IBM Microdrive Hard Drive Drive! Tearing down and debunking a Hyper Voltage Stabiliser car energy smoothing bullshit device. Panduino Uno compatible Arduino Dell Server destroyed by super Neodymium magnet! Brainiac75 Youtube My Playhouse Youtube Hardware Hacker book by Bunnie …

Some more info and experiments on driving Nixie tubes. Open circuit cathode voltage, open collector vs totem pole / push-pull drivers, NIxie voltage drop and pre-biasing, and using the ULN2003 with zener clamping. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

The Dulmont Magnum “Kookaburra” from 1983 is the only laptop to have even been designed and made in Australia, as well as being the world’s first “clamshell” laptop design. Dave tears down this obscure retro classic based on the equally rare 80186. Download ROM images HERE Forum HERE Hires photos: …

Part 1 of an internet connected Nixie tube counter/clock display project. What are Nixie Tubes? How do they work? How do you drive them? Selecting a suitable driving solution and parametric searching. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Dave takes a look at the 21,000fps Chonos Kickstarter high speed digital camera prototype. Tesla500 Youtube Channel World’s most powerful LED light – 5kW VIDEO Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Part 2 of building the Raspberry Pi computer cluster. Dave strips down an old Apple G5 PowerMac to use as the enclosure. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Thermal powered smartwates are nothing more than gimmicks. Dave runs the numbers on the Matrix Powerwatch from Indieigogo. Also some exercise testing shows up an unusual and undesired effect when using thermoelectric generators on your wrist. Thunderf00t’s video HERE Bluetooth Power Consumption Application Note HERE The Peltier effect TEG used …

Wayback Wednesday PART 2 Are we living in the future as foreseen 30 years ago? Dave goes back to 1986 and takes a look at the Beyond 2000 books of the TV series of the same name and looks at what has come true and what hasn’t. What predictions did …

Wayback Wednesday Are we living in the future as foreseen 30 years ago? Dave goes back to 1986 and takes a look at the Beyond 2000 book of the TV series of the same name and looks at what has come true and what hasn’t. What predictions did they get …

Dave takes you step-by-step through his video editing, rendering, and transcoding process for an EEVblog video using Sony Vegas / MovieStudio & Handbrake x264. Note this is NOT a tutorial, it’s a mostly live walkthrough of editing an actual EEVblog video, so lots of waffle. The gear: Aless 520USB Studio …

A mystery teardown taken from Dave’s mailbag submission shelf. What will it be? Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Fundamentals Friday What is a Schmitt trigger and how does it work? What is hysteresis? And how do they fix two common problems in electronics, namely slow slew rate signals on CMOS digital chip inputs causing oscillation, and noise on comparator inputs. The issues are demonstrated first on the breadboard, …

Magic component smoke captured! Email magic smoke pictures to eevblog+smoke@gmail.com Forum HERE