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Dave had a very quick play with the new 4 channel Rigol DS1000Z series oscilloscope with dual channel ARB function generator on the Emona stand at the Electronex 2013 exhibition. And meet some EEVblog viewers. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

See what’s involved in packing and shipping the µRulers to Australian customers for the Pozzible crowd source funded campaign.

An impromptu teardown on the Emona stand at the Electronex trade show, of the Picoscope 5000 flexible resolution USB oscilloscope, with a small crowd of EEVblog viewers watching on. Also uses the Tagarno HD ZIP 40x digital magnifier. http://www.tagarno.dk/en/frontpage/products/inspection/home/product-pages/products/digital-magnification-systems/magnus-hd-zip.aspx https://secure1.bluecentral.com/emona/shop/scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=84 http://www.picotech.com/document/datasheets/PicoScope5000Series.pdf http://www.mouser.com/catalog/specsheets/DataSheetASD5020HS_v2.0.pdf http://www.hittite.com/content/documents/data_sheet/hmc-ad1520.pdf http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass-high-tech/2011/01/hittite-microwave-buys-arctic-silicon-devices.html Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Michael from the Melbourne Connected Community Hackerspace talks about his large build area modular dual independent extruder 3D printer design project. Not much electronics talk here, it’s mostly about the hardware build. http://www.hackmelbourne.org/‎ http://www.3dprinterbits.com.au/ As usual, if you don’t like this type of content, don’t watch it. Forum HERE Podcast: …

Jonathan Oxer from Freetronics talks about the Ardusat project and shows his Arduino based cluster board for running Arduino sketches in space at the Melbourne Connected Community Hackerspace http://www.freetronics.com/pages/ardusat-the-arduino-satellite https://ardusat.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArduSat Forum HERE Podcast: Download

What’s inside a 9V Alkaline Battery? Are they all created the same? Is Duracell better than Energizer? Dave opens up Duracell, Energizer, Varta, and a no-name generic Alkaline 9V PP3 battery. Podcast: Download

What’s inside a modern car airbag controller? This is is from TRW and comes from a late model Hyundai. Datasheets: http://www.chemi-con.com/components/com_lcatalog/uploaded/4/7/6/19868903214d9b16734611d.pdf http://www.ihs.com/news/renesas-h8sx1725f-vehicle.htm http://www.epcos.com/inf/30/db/ind_2008/b82793c0_s0.pdf http://www.datasheetarchive.com/dl/Datasheets-SW2/DSASW0023111.pdf http://www.freescale.com/files/sensors/doc/data_sheet/MMA68xx.pdf http://cache.freescale.com/files/sensors/doc/data_sheet/MMA685x.pdf http://www.st.com/st-web-ui/static/active/en/resource/technical/document/datasheet/CD00103810.pdf Podcast: Download

Part 1 in a series of LTSPICE tutorial videos. In this introduction Dave explains what LTSPICE is and how to do the simplest of the SPICE analysis options – basic DC operating point analysis. Also how to draw basic schematics, display voltages and current on your schematic, and a beginner …

www.electronex.com.au The biggest electronics show in Australia is on Sept 11th and 12th in Melbourne. Dave will be there.

Dave rants about the 2013 Australian federal election this weekend, September 7th. It’s all about the National Broadband Network, how bat shit crazy Tony Abbot’s policies are, how the Senate might be the only hope for the future of the country, and how Wikileaks will throw a spanner in the …

Dave investigates the ionic electro-chemical resistance of some Alkaline batteries under light multimeter input loading and an unusual physical battery phenomena, and explains how it differs drastically from the datasheet internal resistance value. He also finds a surprising result showing two types of Alkaline battery construction with different properties. It …

What’s inside a modern bare bones $5 mobile phone? The LG800G available from Tracphone for $5: Datasheets: http://www.infineon.com/dgdl/X-GOLD_213-pb.pdf?folderId=db3a304312fcb1bc0113000c158f0004&fileId=db3a30431ddc9372011e1fc7f7fd413d http://www.rfmd.com/CS/Documents/7161DS.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-electron-mobility_transistor http://www.broadcom.com/products/Bluetooth/Bluetooth-RF-Silicon-and-Software-Solutions/BCM2070 Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Mailbag galore. Dave screws up and releases the magic smoke on the best mailbag item ever. Turns a light bulb on with his mobile phone, and goes underwater in a submarine. And a cameo appearance by everyone’s favorite. http://shackspace.de/ http://lightdream.com.au/ http://www.avbotz.com/ http://jmedved.com/usbamps Podcast: Download

Dave started out wanting to investigate the power-on spike on the Rigol DP832 Lab Power Supply, but ended up hunting down a reset bug that uncovered a bad thermal design mistake in the supply. Watch Dave hunt it down step by step, and almost get duped by some marginal oscilloscope …

The draw for the Hameg analog/digital oscilloscope.