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Dave wires up an Arduino (Freetronics Eleven) to control his video camera via a learning IR remote control matrix keypad. NOTE: this is NOT an optimised solution, nor a tutorial on the best way to do this, it’s a quick rudimentary hack while showing a few traps. This was the …

I hadn’t heard of an Ignite Talk before my mate Roger told me he was thinking of giving a talk on our autonomous canyon navigating quadcopter idea at the upcoming Ignite Sydney event. Then he suggested I might want to submit a talk topic too, ranting as I do for a …

Dave explains the three main methods of Uninterruptible Power Supply design – Offline, Online, and Line Interactive. And then opens an APC 2200XL rack mount UPS to see how well it matches the classic block diagram theory. Will there be any surprises? Schematic HERE Patent: Method and apparatus for providing …

Dave drops by the Australian RoboWars 2013 competition. Podcast: Download

Dave fiddles with a $19 Hameg HM205-3 combined Analog/Digital Oscilloscope And yes, he’s giving it away. Forum HERE Manual, with Schematics Photos HERE Podcast: Download

Finally there will be a Sydney Maker Faire in November! There will be a public meeting this coming Saturday 10th Aug at the Powerhouse Museum to talk about the in’s and out’s. I’ll be there. I’ll probably give a talk or something at the show too, got any ideas on …

Dave goes back to the future and takes a 1985 vintage Sinclair C5 electric “car” for a spin, one of only a handful in the country. This was Sir Clive Sinclair’s vision for personal transport. Schematic and service manual Micro Men movie The Sinclair Story Delorean & C5 video Podcast: …

An unedited 5 hour live show on Ustream for the 500th Episode Dave answering live viewer questions in the chat room for a full 5 hours (don’t expect anything else!) Sorry, the video capture of the live chat comments didn’t work properly.

What is the JTAG interface and Boundary Scanning, how does it work, and what is it useful for? Forum HERE XJTAG Unit Podcast: Download

Dave shows you how it’s not that hard to find that mythical $50 analog oscilloscope on ebay. At least in the US and UK. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Inside the Siglent SDG 5000 series SDG5082 80MHz Arbitrary Function Generator. Same as the SDG5122 and SDG5162 Forum Photos Datasheets: PLD TCXO USB SRAM DAC VCO Driver Isolator Podcast: Download

What is an FPGA, and how does it compare to a microcontroller? A basic introduction to what Field Programmable Gate Arrays are and how they work, and the advantages and disadvantages. FPGA Stuff in Dave’s Amazon store Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Dave answers some question from his 5 hour live show about getting help with editing video for the blog, a co-host, slow Youtube uploads, and big productions like the Ben Heck show. FYI, the latest Kodak camera teardown was 6.1GB of raw video data.

Inside the worlds first Digital SLR camera with rear LCD and inbuilt JPEG processing, the 1998 vintage Kodak DCS315, based on the Nikon Pronea 6i film SLR camera body. This was before Canon and Nikon had released their own DSLR camera technology, when Kodak ruled the digital camera world! History …

USB Serial Module: http://jim.sh/ftx/ DSRB-88 Geiger Counter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B815uBi9wSw Induction Coin Shinker: http://thegeekgroup.org/stomper DE0-Nano FPGA Development Board: http://de0-nano.terasic.com Forum HERE Podcast: Download