Teardown Tuesday What’s inside a modern LED backlight LCD panel from a 27″ computer monitor? Forum Topic HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »555 Timer T-Shirt
I’ve added my hand drawn 555 timer T-Shirt to Teespring teespring.com/555timer-grey Only US$15! if there is a total order of 100 or more. This is much cheaper than my existing Zazzle store shirts. The campaign runs for 7 days. I was only charged $4.10 for DHL delivery to oz for …
Read More »EEVblog #464 – Mailbag
More mailbag http://ros.org/wiki/Robots/TurtleBot http://hacklace.org/ http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=ANALOG-DISCOVERY Forum Topic HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »New Negative Feedback T-Shirt Design
I’m looking for a new Negative Feedback T-Shirt design to take into a crowd source campaign to get some cheap shirts. Please vote for the design you like HERE Forum topic for discussion is HERE The designs are not final, they can be tweaked in the last round. This is …
Read More »EEVblog #463 – More Dumpster Diving
This time Dave actually had to climb into the dumpster. Was it worth it? Forum Topic HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #462 – Video Editing PC Assembly
60 minutes of Dave assembling his silent (low noise) Intel i7 3770K video editing computer. If you find that boring, don’t watch. Please DON’T leave uninformed comments about needing a high end video card for editing and rendering. Read THIS first. Coolermaster Silencio 550 case. Asus Z77 motherboard Coolermaster 212 …
Read More »EEVblog #461 – Genrad Decade Resistance Box Teardown
Dave’s Ignite Video is HERE Teardown Tuesday How interesting can a box with switches and resistors be? Not very? How about a multi thousand dollar Genrad 1433 metrology grade decade resistance box? IET’s video HERE Forum Topic HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #460 – Mailbag – Plasma Speaker
Dave’s Mailbag Some nice postcards, a Jamma card for Daves arcade machine, some computer stuff, dummy load kit, a calculator and a PLASMA SPEAKER! Forum Topic HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »Pre-Order an Amp Hour T-Shirt!
You can now pre-order the awesome new Amphour T-Shirt! http://teespring.com/tah-black Super cheap at only $15. Even shipping to Oz is $10.50 via DHL, much cheaper for US of course. You can only get this low price through the crowd sourcing campaign. After it’s done, the shirt will be $25 instead …
Read More »EEVblog #459 – Counter Shenanigans
What happens when you feed a frequency counter clock up it’s own clacker? Agilent 53131A Schematics HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #458 – Industrial Computer
What’s inside the ICP/IEI industrial rack mount computer Dave got from auction? Does it boot? Forum Topic HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »Make a living on Youtube (or die trying)
Here is my talk from the 10th Ignite Sydney conference. Huge thanks to Hunting with Pixels for the filming and video editing. I’ll probably do another text blog post on this in due course talking about what went into, and the not-so-polished rehearsal video!
Read More »EEVblog #457 – Oscillator Calibration Followup
A follow-up on another method to calibration adjust the Agilent 53131A frequency counter against the Stanford Research PRS10 rubidium standard. The oscillator drift video is HERE Forum Topic HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #456 – CSIRO Rubidium Frequency Standard
Dave uses his CSIRO National Measurement Institute rubidium frequency standard to calibrate and adjust his Agilent 53131A frequency counter. With bonus teardowns. 53131A schematics are HERE http://www.thinksrs.com/products/PRS10.htm Forum Topic HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #455 – Auction Bonanza
Dave shows off the gear he scored at an auction. Forum Topic HERE Podcast: Download
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