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EEVblog #831 – Power A Micro With No Power Pin!

In this Fundamental Friday Dave will blow your mind as he shows you how you can power a microcontroller *without* a power or ground pin! A potentially big trap for young and old players alike. Can you guess how it’s done before the secret is revealed? Forum HERE SPOILER: A …

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EEVblog #825 – Your Printer Is Spying On You!

Did you know that your colour laser printer is secretly printing a forensic code on every one of your printouts so the government can track it? Sounds like a nutjob conspiracy theory, but it’s true! Yellow dots that are invisible to the naked eye are printed all over your page …

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EEVblog #824 – GW Instek GDS-1000B Oscilloscope Teardown

Inside the new GW Instek GDS-1000B series entry level low cost oscilloscope. Both the GDS-1054B and the GDS-1104B What is the main mystery processor? It is lower cost than the Rigol DS1054Z, how does it compare? And a look at a SinX/X display processing anomaly that was discovered. Forum HERE …

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EEVblog #821 – Mailbag

More Mailbag! Extended Teardown Video HERE Forum HERE SPOILERS: Military Mystery Item Teardown – UPDATE: This is very likely for a 1960’s NASA Atlas D ICBM communications system! Likely designed by Ellis G. Goodwin Get Your Ass To Mars Buzz Aldrin October 22nd 2015 USA Today Back To The Future …

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EEVblog #820 – Mesh & Nodal Circuit Analysis Tutorial

Dave explains the fundamental DC circuit theorems of Mesh Analysis, Nodal Analysis, and the Superposition Theorem, and how they can be used to analyse circuits using Kirchhoff’s Voltage and Current Laws we learned in the previous video HERE The same circuit is solved using the 3 different methods. Will we …

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