A followup on the FLIR TG165 Visual Thermometer / Thermal Camera teardown. A look at the micro-shutter and some thermal chamber experiments and scope measurements on the SPI data from the Lepton sensor used. Forum HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #669 – FLIR TG165 Thermal Imager Teardown
What’s inside the new FLIR TG165 Visual IR Thermometer / Thermal Camera using the new Lepton sensor? How does it compare to the FLIR ONE & FLIR E4? Does it have a calibration shutter? Does it have any extra capability built in ready to be hacked? How easy is it …
Read More »EEVblog #668 – Mailbag + FLIR TG165
Help beat Congenital Muscular Dystrophy with their Pozible campaign (Pozible campaign live tomorrow) A look at the FLIR TG-165 visual spot thermometer and (unfair) comparison with the FLIR E8 thermal camera. High density Mitra 125 16KB magnetic core ferrite memory from the 1970’s Eric LPRS low power radio modules Forum …
Read More »EEVblog #667 – Agilent 6643A Power Supply Binding Post Hack
Dave shows how to upgrade an Agilent/Keysight 6643A/6642A/6641A system dc power supply to have front panel binding posts. Sense lines are added to improve the high current accuracy. Operation Manual HERE Service Manual + Schematic HERE Auction Score video HERE Forum HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »How Google Plus Screws Youtube Comments
I’m a full time Youtube content producer, and I like responding to comments, it’s a way for me to directly interact with my audience. It’s an important thing for a content producer to be able to do. Nay, essential. To say thanks, answer a question, respond to criticism, correct something, …
Read More »EEVblog #665 – Polar Wearlink Heart Rate Transmitter Teardown
Teardown Tuesday. Inside a Polar Wearlink chest strap fitness heart rate monitor monitor transmitter. Also a look at and some attempted decoding of the signal with the Tektronix MDO3000 oscilloscope. Polar RMCM-01 Receiver Module Datasheet Forum HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »Australian Crowd Source Equity Funding Report
I have been made aware of this Australian government requested report on crowd sourced equity funding, and associated suggested legislative framework to promote it. Original DOC file is HERE PDF version HERE I have not digested the 244 pages of it yet!
Read More »EEVblog #664 – Peltier TEG Energy Harvesting Experiments
Dave plays around with an energy harvesting kit to see how much power he can get out of a Peltier device used as a Seeback effect module to generate power from temperature differentials. Bonus white board tutorial on how Peltier devices work as heat pumps. Wuerth Elektronik Energy Harvesting Kit …
Read More »Tesla Model S – Australian Test Drive
Dave test drives one of the first right hand drive Tesla Model S cars in Australia before they are delivered to customers.
Read More »Interview with Rod Elliott from Elliott Sound Products
Meet Rod Elliott the man behind the famous sound.westhost.com audio electronics website. Audio aficionados will no doubt be familiar with Rod’s hundred of articles and projects. He dropped by the EEVblog stand at Electronex and kindly agreed to a quick impromptu chat on-camera.
Read More »WENS 540 Handheld 10MHz Oscilloscope and Debug Meter
A very brief look at the new WENS 540 Debug Meter with Charles from Trio Test at the Electronex show stand: This is NOT a review, or my normal blog content, it’s just a quick look because some people may be interested in it. So please, no silly complaints. Forum …
Read More »EEVblog #663 – Compucorp 322G Calculator Teardown
Teardown Tuesday Inside a 1973 vintage programmable scientific desktop calculator. The P2102 is a 1K x 1 bit SRAM, so looks like a 4 bit processor architecture. Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-663-compucorp-322g-calculator-teardown/ Teardown photos: Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #662- How & Why to use Integration on an Oscilloscope
In this tutorial Dave demonstrates the seldom used and often little understood mathematical integration function available on your modern digital oscilloscope. And demonstrates a practical example use for it in accurately measuring the total power consumption of a microcontroller that sleeps and then wakes up and does some processing before …
Read More »Electronex 2014 – Walkaround
Dave walks around the Electronex 2014 electronics exhibition at the Australian Technology Park, after hours when no one is there, and takes a peek at every stand. Done in a single take. PLEASE don’t comment that this video gives you motion sickness, it’s just pointless. If you don’t like hand …
Read More »Electronex 2014 – Behind The Scenes
Behind the scenes of the setup for the Electronex 2014 trade show in Sydney at the Australian Technology Park. Shot at fixed 1/250 shutter, 50fps on the Canon HF G30 with full optical image stabilisation, for those who like to complain about motion sickness.
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