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Dave unboxes, tests, inspects and repairs the first returned faulty EEVBlog BM235 Multimeter. What will the be the fault? Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Dave takes a look at the Orange Pi One $10 single board 4 ARM Cortex A7 processor computer and compares it to the Raspberry Pi 2. Coving the install of the ARMbian flavour of Debian. Beware the security bug! And what is the power/watt efficiency between the two? Schematic HERE …

Dumpster diving time! Dave fishes out some Apple Xserve rack mount server computers and tears them down. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Dave does basic back-of-the-envelope thermodynamic calculations to prove the Fontus Airo & Ryde self filling water bottle campaign on Indiegogo is full of hot air instead of water. It’s 100% baloney! Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Mailbag Monday Teardown bonanza Forum HERE SPOILERS: LCD’s and CCD sensor under the Tagarno microscope The Aoyue3D Ritocco 3D shaping , cutting and finishing tool amazon 1980’s multimeters (Fluke ripoff) Wandel & Goltermann optical attenuator Cheap mains energy meter teardown DTV TV tuner teardown Wayback Wednesday material, a collection of …

Dave investigates how the front end bandwidth limiting works on the Rohde & Schwarz HMO1202 series oscilloscope. Is the bandwidth limit set just by the LMH6518 front end Variable Gain Amplifier chip through the SPI bus? See the extended 50 minute version HERE that has much more detail and mucking …

What’s the difference between High Resolution (Boxcar Averaging) and traditional Average acquisition modes on a modern digital oscilloscope? Dave explains this often misunderstood difference, traps for young players, and gives several demos to highlight the differences. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Installing a home energy monitoring and reporting system on Dave’s home solar power system. The 3G based wireless Connect 23 from Solar Analytics Designed & Manufactured by WattWatchers Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Dave reviews the 350MHz National Instruments VirtualBench combined 4 channel oscilloscope, logic analyser, arbitrary waveform generator, 5.5 digit multimeter, digital I/O, and power supply. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Inside the National Instruments NI VB-8034 Virtual Bench. A 350MHz 4 channel mixed signal oscilloscope, arbitrary waveform generator, power supply, and I/O module that can connect to the PC, tablet or phone via USB, WiFi, or Ethernet. Datasheets: Xilinx Kintex 7 ADC08D1520 ADC CRF Reed Relay High Speed OpAmp Podcast: …

105yo Ted Wale still builds FM bugs in his lab, and carves his own PCB’s (none of this etching rubbish!) Dave caught up with him in his backyard workshop in Cabramatta in Sydney. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Dave looks at possibly the world’s most dangerous consumer product, a portable electrode boiler based water heater available on ebay. Marketed as “safe”, it is nothing less than a death trap! EDIT: Holy crap! They sell this as a baby bath heater! Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Mailbag time! Forum HERE Death trap video HERE SPOILERS: Zifnu Rocket Kit on Kickstarter PAX Instrument T400 Temperature Logger Arris Cable Modem teardown Mail from Claire Standish Sinclair ZX81 Computer Teardown 3D Printed glow in the dark Delorean Garmin Fishfinder Teardown http://antdiy.blogspot.com.au Cheap Ebay $9 multimeter teardown Sharp EL-5810 pocket …

Dave shows you how to get the distributed computing platform BOINC and the SETI@Home project running on your Raspberry Pi. How many MIPS per Watt is the Raspberry Pi 2 compared to Dave’s dual processor Xeon machine? And the awesome Paul Horowitz Forum HERE Dave’s machines on SETI Download SETI@Home …

Join Dave as he laughs at the shonkiest product of 2016 The Z-Energeia energy saving wipes. Just wipe them on your mains fuse box and save up to 20% on your energy bill thanks to the Electron Vibration Alignment Field! Forum HERE Podcast: Download