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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EEVblog #818 – Embedded Electronics With Jack Ganssle

Embedded legend Jack Ganssle and Dave have an impromptu chat on embedded electronics. Everything from EE learning and education, 8008 processors to quantum computing, and from VW Combi vans to the recent Toyota and Volkswagon scandals Jack’s Books Embedded Newsletter Jack’s Youtube channel Forum HERE Podcast: Download

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EEVblog #817 – Mantis Elite Cam

Dave checks out the Mantis Elite Cam from Vision Engineering An upgrade to his existing Mantis Elite, but with built in HD USB camera. Is it any good? From www.hawkerrichardson.com.au Update: More powerful measurement software is an option Review video is HERE Forum thread HERE Podcast: Download

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EEVBlog #815 – Mailbag Teardown Bonanza

A Teardown Bonanaza Mailbag! Fran Blanche is HERE Extra teardown HERE Forum HERE SPOILERS: Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ Lightsaber Chinon Genesis II Film Camera Morrow Apollo Aircraft GPS Morrow Apollo LORAN Navigation Receiver 1970’s 300A Navomatic Analog Autopilot Thrane & Thrane GSM Satellite Phone Podcast: Download

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Forum Is Down

UPDATE: Now Fixed. 11pm AEST The forum is currently down, but EEVblog.com is up and running just fine. The web host Hostgator has screwed up and is currently fixing it.

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EEVblog #813 – Mailbag

Bumper Mailbag. Guest appearance by Sagan Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-813-mailbag/ SPOILERS: Sinclair / Thandar SC110 10MHz portable analog CRT oscilloscope form the 1980’s! Makerbeam by Chartup A mystery device from a Police auction from Rossin Corporation 10MHz TCXO reference clock generator AST3TQ TCXO datasheet Fitbit ripoff teardown CC2541 Bluetooth microcontroller datasheet MMA955L …

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EEVblog #812 – Varta 15min NiMH Charger Part 2

Dave further investigates the Varta 15 minute NiMH batter charger. Mixed signal analysis with the new Keysight 3000T oscilloscope, and current tracing with the TTI iProber 520 positional current probe And some more reverse engineering. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

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