Electronics Engineering Video Blog Podcast

EEVblog #67 – Hacking the Princeton Tec EOS LED Headlamp with a Cree XPG

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:58:07 +0000

Dave does a teardown of the Princeton Tec EOS headlamp and mods it with a new Cree XPG LED.
Throw in a quick reverse engineer of the circuit, gratuitous scope shots, torturing a thermistor, a practical demonstration of why you really do need 5 multimeters on your bench, and as usual Dave finds no problems filling up 25 minutes.

EEVblog #66 – Death & Destruction of a Fluke Multimeter

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:55:05 +0000

Dave goes on a several hundred km adventure in order to completely destroy the Fluke 28-II multimeter. Short of blowing it up with explosives, will he succeed, or will it live to measure another day?

EEVblog #65 – Umm, I Design Computers

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:16:56 +0000

Another drive-time rant.

The camera mount (turns out it’s a bit shaky).

EEVblog #64 – Fluke 28 Series II Multimeter Review & Teardown

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:12:43 +0000

Dave checks out the new Fluke rugged 28 Series II Multimeter and compares it with the venerable Fluke 87

Internal photos: TopPCB1, TopPCB2, BottomPCB1, BottomPCB2, InputJacks1, InputJacks2

EEVblog #63 – Microchip PIC vs Atmel AVR

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:54:02 +0000

Let the microcontroller fanboy wars begin!
Dave’s rather random rant on which is better, Microchip PIC or Atmel AVR.
(Warning, Dave hates Fanboys)

And check out this way to program AVR chips with the PICkit2

EEVblog #62 – The Drivetime Experiment

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:12:11 +0000

Warning, no electronics content, just a 30 minute filler experiment of Dave ranting about the blog.

EEVblog #61 – Crystal Oscillator Drift

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:43:44 +0000

Dave explains the what how and why of measuring crystal clock oscillator drift over time.

The Clock Drift PCBs

Real data collected with the sine fit envelope.
And results showing the same characteristic result over a slow temperature ramp.

EEVblog #60 – Fluke 117 Multimeter Review and Teardown

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:43:39 +0000

EEVblog #59 – Back to the Future Flux Capacitor T-Shirt Tanty

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:47:57 +0000

Dave goes nuts over NBC Universal Pictures pulling his Flux Capacitor T-Shirt designs from Zazzle.

EEVblog #58 – Warm and Fuzzy FPGA Troubleshooting

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:57:05 +0000

Look, up in the sky, is it a hardware fault?, is it a software fault?, no, it’s a bloody FPGA

EEVblog #57 – Agilent Thumbs Up Furore

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:23:59 +0000

Dave responds to the furore over his thumbs up rating on the Agilent U1253A Multimeter And it’s all about the love, really.

ADDED COMMENT:
Agilent make the exact same meter in an LCD version (U1251A or U1252A) with longer battery life. So you get the choice of display vs battery life!

EEVblog #56 – Agilent U1253A OLED Multimeter Review & Teardown

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:49:01 +0000

Dave reviews the Agilent U1253A OLED Multimeter and compares it with the Fluke 87-V in this epic review. How will it stack up?

Check out Stormbyte’s video response to my review.
Some good points here which I address in #57.

EEVblog #55 – RCA Airnergy WiFi Hotspot Energy Harvesting Marketing BS

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:42:38 +0000

Dave can smell marketing bullshit a mile away, so checks out the new RCA WiFi Energy Harvesting “Airnergy” device with some back of the envelope calculations. Marketing BS? or can it actually work?

The RCA video is HERE
and another interview HERE

EEVblog #54 – Electronics – When I was a boy…

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:41:59 +0000

Dave goes Back to the Future and talks about how he got started in electronics.

OT: The Australian Mandatory Internet Filter Folly

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:55:29 +0000

(Sorry for the off-topic rant, normally I wouldn’t post it here, but I know some of my regulars will be interested. This is an Australian specific social commentary, so those who are just after electronics, you won’t find any in this post, sorry)

Dave cuts lose on the idiots behind Australia’s proposed Mandatory Internet Filter, and calls everyone to arms to stop this madness before it’s too late.

For more information, see:
http://www.nocleanfeed.com
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet&id=892
http://www.efa.org.au/category/censorship/mandatory-isp-filtering/
(PDF Fact Sheet) https://www.getup.org.au/files/campaigns/conroys_greatfirewall_factsheet.pdf
(PDF Fact Sheet) http://www.efa.org.au/mandatory-internet-filtering-fact-sheets/
http://stephenconroy.com.au/
And THIS video is hilarious!

And a politician finally backs down!

Thanks to Miwers for the image!

EEVblog #53 – Mr Murphy and Microchip PIC Silicon Bugs

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:36:38 +0000

Dave tangles with Murphy’s Law and Microchip silicon bugs with his latest PIC project.

The PIC24FJ256 errata

And that Jim’s Mowing Franchise looks pretty tempting.

Useful Resistor Calculation Tool

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:41:41 +0000

Who needs a resistor calculation tool?
Well, if you’ve ever tried to make up an odd-ball series or parallel resistor values to a desired accuracy from various E series ranges then you’ll know how annoying it can be, especially if you have to to do it over and over.
I wrote a tool once that did this, but was fairly limited.
I’ve been searching for a long time for a similar tool and I finally found one that worked just the way I wanted it to. It’s called Resistor CAD 2.0 by Terry Harris from Vader Systems.

Vader Systems doesn’t seem to be around any more, and the program was free, but now seems almost impossible to find. So I’ve put it on my server to share this really useful tool.

Download it HERE

There is also a similar online one HERE, but it’s fairly limited.

Article – uCurrent Precision Current Adapter for Multimeters

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:29:31 +0000

Due to countless requests, I’ve finally got off my butt and made my uCurrent project article available for download.
Download the full PDF article HERE

EEVblog #52 – Panasonic Plasma TV’s Suck

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:09:51 +0000

Dave cuts loose on his Panasonic Plasma TV set that failed, yet still manages to give it the thumbs up.

Sexiest Geek?

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:47:48 +0000

Wonders will never cease!
Dave has been nominated for Wired’s Sexiest Geek of 2009 award! (LMAO!)
Vote HERE
(search the page for EEVblog, or get more visual enjoyment by scrolling down until you find me! ;->)
(thanks to John for pointing out this hilarity!)

EEVblog #51 – A tour of the EEVblog Electronics Lab

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:18:12 +0000

After countless requests, Dave finally takes you on a guided behind the scenes tour of the EEVblog lab.

Vote until the cows come home!

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:09:23 +0000

Yes, I’m entered into the “Streamy” awards in the category of Best Video Blogger!

Give in to your primeval nerdy urge and vote for Dave by simply clicking on the link:

(Select “Best Vlogger”. Enter “David Jones”, “EEVblog”, and “http://www.eevblog.com”)
(be sure to enter the info exactly like that, it might dilute the votes otherwise)
(and don’t worry about the Twitter page thing it takes you to, you don’t need Twitter to enter)

Oh, and it gets better, you can vote once a day until Jan 22nd from each IP address. You know you want to!
Dave thanks you. The nerd world thanks you.

How cool would it be for an electronics nerd to win the category over some cute chick with a million viewers a week who just blogs about her makeup!
If I can get a thousand regular viewers to submit each day until Jan 22, that’s about 30,000 votes!

EEVblog #50 – Solid State LED Lighting, and How Thermal Design Sucks

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:47:13 +0000

Dave lights up his new backyard deck with Cree XPG LEDs, and then winds up measuring the wind from a storm instead. And who can spell efficacy?

LINKS:
Cree XPG LED Datasheet
Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive
Luminous Efficacy Graph
Graph #1
Graph #2
LED Strip, Mounted LED
700mA 35W Mains LED driver

EEVblog #49 – Decibels (dB’s) for Engineers – A Tutorial

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:39:12 +0000

Are you a pessimist or an optimist? Dave explains dB’s and how they are useful for us engineering types.

EEVblog #48 – Solar Power Hope

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:45:44 +0000

Can solar power hope beat out the engineering reality for Dave’s latest project?
Was Doc Brown right?

Solar Cell DATASHEET

EEVblog #47 – Recruitment Consultants Suck, and Engineering Evil

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:19:06 +0000

100% pure rant time.
Dave cuts lose on recruitment consultants, local component suppliers, and companies that make you register to get datasheets.

EEVblog #46 – Gossen Metrawatt Xtra Multimeter Review

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:30:14 +0000

What have those wacky Germans been up to? Dave reviews the German made Gossen Metrawatt XTRA Multimeter. Also known as the Dranetz BMI Drantech XTRA

In Australia you can Gossen meters at Zedflo HERE

EEVblog #45 – Arduino, PICAXE, and idiot assembler programmers

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:15:03 +0000

Dave checks out what all the fuss is about with the Arduino, contemplates the PICAXE, and cuts loose on die hard assembly language programmers.
All with no more silly 10 minute youtube time limit.

EEVblog #44 – Part 2 – Logic Analyzer Tutorial

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:13:08 +0000

Part two of Dave’s Logic Analyzer tutorial / monologue

EEVblog #44 – Part 1 – Logic Analyzer Tutorial

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:10:22 +0000

Dave gives you the what, how, and why of Logic Analyzers in this two part tutorial.

EEVblog #43 – Fluke 233 Multimeter Review

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:59:38 +0000

Dave gets his hands on the first Fluke 233 meter in the country. Gimmick?, or the biggest innovation in multimeters since autoranging?

Aussie customers can buy the Fluke 233 HERE. Use “EEVblog” as the code to get free shipping. And if you register you get 15% off the price of all gear.

Amazingly, even Dave’s wife liked this meter!, is that a good or a bad thing?

EEVblog #42 – Exploding Capacitors in High Speed

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:31:33 +0000

Dave blows up some tantalum and electrolytic capacitors in front of his new 300fps Sanyo Xacti high speed camcorder!

EEVblog #41 – Pigs fly at Microchip in HD

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:29:28 +0000

See Dave in glorious HD-ish, Microchip PIC talk, and Damocles the flying pig takes flight.

Microchip’s Video Response to my PICkit 3 Review in EEVblog #39

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:16:43 +0000

Microchip have responded in record time to my review of the PICkit 3!

This is absolutely hilarious!
My hats off to the guys and girls at Microchip!

EEVblog #40 – Dilbert and the world of micro managed Engineering

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:42:20 +0000

Dave goes through his Top 5 list of dead projects, Dilbert style.

EEVblog #39 – PICkit 3 Programmer/Debugger Review

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:56:59 +0000

Dave compares the new PICkit 3 to the old PICkit 2, and, well, he starts to rant uncontrollably about how Microchip may have screwed this up…
And what do MBA managers and dickheads have in common?

UPDATE:
Since this blog has gone to air and made it’s way all around the Microchip HQ, I have received a phone call from none other than the Microchip CEO Steve Sanghi. In a totally unexpected and rare show of honesty from any corporate person, let alone the CEO, he thanked me for the blog and for raising the issues. They took it as serious constructive criticism (as it was intended). He pointed out a few factual errors on my part which was fair enough, but admitted they could have done the PICkit 3 better and most importantly are working to fix the issues and give customers what they expect.

Check out their video response below!

Any other huge multi-billion dollar corporation probably would have got their lawyers to give me a dressing down, if they cared at all, but Microchip really do care about their products and will happily take constructive criticism seriously at the top level. Such a thing has to be unprecedented surely?
I am absolutely blown away by Microchip’s honesty, and it starts from their CEO down.
Two thumbs up to Steve Sanghi and Microchip!

Erroneous issues in my blog pointed out by Microchip are:
1) The auto VDD voltage was removed deliberately due to potential damage to chips if applied incorrectly. (Fair call, but I still don’t like it)
2) The VDD range is not 3V-5.5V, it’s actually 2V-5.5V and range changes with the chip selected. (Yep, I didn’t see this, different to the PK2)
3) The PK3 is only slower for the chip type I selected (Murphy’s Law), for all others it’s actually faster than the PK2. They are working on speed optimisation for the other ones.
4) Debugging is faster than the PK2 which I didn’t mention at all.
5) Programming to Go feature is now supported (only a week or so before I filmed the blog)
6) They plan on releasing the separate programmer software again (open source)

Microchips response!

EEVblog #38 2of2 – Seismic Survey Boats & Insulation Resistance Measurement

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:35:27 +0000

Dave explains errors and problems associated in insulation resistance measurement through a relay test matrix.
Betcha no one else has covered that one before!

EEVblog #38 – LCR Meters, Transmission Lines, and Moving goal posts

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:32:53 +0000

Dave gives the solution to the first hardware quiz.
How do you design an LCR meter?
What about a stepped transmission line attenuation tester?
What does modular design and management have in common?

LINKS: Guardian Solid Streamer and Marine Aquisition

The EEVblog Forum

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:00:58 +0000

Several people have asked for a user forum, so here it is. (Permanent Tab link above)
Who will be the first to post?
First poster wins a free lifetime subscription to the blog. I’ll even throw in the Twitter feeds!

What’s next? EEVblog T-Shirts?

EEVblog #37 – Rigol DS1052E Oscilloscope Teardown

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:24:39 +0000

Dave opens up his Rigol DS1052E Oscilloscope, and ponders how to convert it into a DS1102E.
And yes, he finally checks out the infamous ADC overclocking issue.

Hires images: ADC & FPGA ADC Support Blackfin DSP Front End 1 Front End 2 Front End 3 PSU

EEVblog #36 – It’s Hardware Puzzle Time!

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:23:19 +0000

It’s time for YOU to get involved and solve a hardware puzzle – what does this board do?
Get your reverse engineering brain into gear and win a prize.

High Res images 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

RULES:
- Dave makes the rules and can change the rules
- The first person who (in Dave’s opinion) is the closest to guessing what this board does and how it works wins the prize, the more detail the better. The most correct may not necessarily win if enough detail is not there. I’ll let it run for a while even if someone is spot-on up front.
- No time limit, until Dave closes it that is.
- I will not reply to guesses, so no “cold”, “warm” etc
- Hints may be given in due course
- You can build upon other peoples answers and gazump them with extra detail if you think they are pretty close!
- You can guess as many times as you like

EEVblog #35 2of2 – NiMH and NiCd Battery Charging Tutorial

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:33:05 +0000

While we’re on the subject, Dave talks about NiMH and NiCd battery charging methods.

EEVblog #35 – Inside the Varta 15 minute NiMH Battery Charger

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:28:40 +0000

Dave cracks open the Varta 15 minute NiMH battery charger, what will he find?

EEVblog #34 – Girls, Brad Pitt, and Sweden vs the United Kingdom

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:50:25 +0000

Dave ponders his demographic data, and why on earth women would want to watch this rubbish.
WARNING – contain 0% electronics, and nerd semi-nudity.

Jeri’s Fatman & CircuitGirl site.
Jeri’s YouTube page.
Lady Ada’s Video Blog

EEVblog Tweets @ Twitter

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:55:02 +0000

Dave has finally relented to the in-crowd and you can now follow him on his new EEVblog Twitter account.
You’ll (hopefully) get the inside skinny on what Dave’s doing and what’s happening in the blog.

EEVblog #33 2of2 – Capacitor Tutorial (Ceramics and impedance)

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:23:54 +0000

A blog so big it needed two parts.
This time it’s all about ceramic capacitors, and that mysterious things of putting different vale capacitors in parallel. Not to mention microphonics.

EEVblog #33 1of2 – Capacitor Tutorial (Electrolytic, Tantalum, and Plastic Film)

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:17:48 +0000

Dave attempts to give the low-down on different capacitor types in under 10 minutes, can he do it?
(Hint – Dave likes to waffle…)

EEVblog #32 – Tandy 1000 Retro Computer time!

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:23:34 +0000

Dave goes Back to the Future and powers up his old Tandy 1000 computer.
Will it work?, will it choke?
And how to channel your inner Woz to design your own Turbo Board.
(Check out the ROM BIOS version 1.00.00 !!)

EEVblog #31 – Microcontroller Datasheet Utopia

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:45:52 +0000

Dave gets disturbingly emotional about microcontroller datasheets and documentation.

LINKS:
The NEC Micro datasheet(20pin) and datasheet(80pin)

EEVblog #30 – Jaycar Bench Lab Power Supply Review

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:16:01 +0000

Dave checks out an el-cheapo Jaycar lab power supply. What do you get for 150 bucks?

(Something went horribly wrong with the camcorder and the end summary didn’t get recorded, oops. It gets a thumbs sideways. Would have been better if it had better resolution on the adjustments, no overshoot, and a load button)

EEVblog #29 – Audiophile Audiophoolery

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:06:57 +0000

Dave cuts loose on the Golden Ear Audiophiles and all their Audiophoolery rubbish.
Panasonic gets a serve too, or is that applause?
The Blue Jeans cable LINK

And Kurt Denke’s response to the infamous letter: LINK

The Panasonic design guide is HERE and the rest of it HERE
Post your best Audiophool product links in the comments!

Thanks to Steve Macatee from Rane Corporation for pointing out this must-have bit of gear for every Audiophool!

Check out this awesome Audiophool product!: Blackbody

EEVblog #28 – Product design drives me NUTS!

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:18:15 +0000

Dave goes nuts over dodgy product design decisions in Canon DV camcorders, Fluke multimeters, Timex watches, Princeton Tec LED lights, and PVR’s.
And how cool would it be to design farting gnomes?

The EEVblog has morphed…

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:30:17 +0000

The EEVblog has been morphed from
www.alternatezone.com/eevblog
to
www.eevblog.com

Hopefully you shouldn’t even notice the difference, but I’m an electronics engineering nerd and not a Jolt Cola slurping computer geek, so something has bound to have gone wrong, possibly horribly…
Let me know if you find any issues at all…

EEVblog #27 – More Engineering Job Interview Tips!

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:21:17 +0000

Yes, it’s another round of Electronics Engineering job interview tips.
Techniques to help you stand out at the interview and secure that engineering job.
See Blog #7 for the previous bunch of tips.
(Note the record number of “you know”’s!)

EEVblog #26 – Multimeter Counts, Accuracy, Resolution & Calibration

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:15:27 +0000

All about Multimeter display counts, accuracy, and calibration.

EEVblog #25 – The Infinite Resistor Puzzle

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:14:45 +0000

The Infinite Resistor Puzzle

EEVblog #24 – The secret world of Chopper Amplifiers

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:41:47 +0000

The secret world of Chopper (auto-zero) Amplifiers.

EEVblog Facebook Group

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:33:38 +0000

For those into such things, I’ve set up an EEVblog Facebook group you can, well, join I guess…
EEVBlog Facebook group

EEVblog #23 – GSM mobile phone audio design

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:07:10 +0000

GSM mobile phone audio design, RF immunity, and low noise dead bug point-to-point prototyping.

EEVblog #22 – On Blogs and Video Blogging

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:25:54 +0000

On blogs and video blogging.

EEVblog #21 – The Unusual Oscilloscope Phenomenon(3)

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:13:14 +0000

Dave dons the lab coat for yet another installment of the Unusual Oscilloscope Phenomenon.

EEVblog #20 – The unusual oscilloscope phenomenon – Part 2

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:17:31 +0000

The unusual oscilloscope phenomenon – Part 2!

EEVblog #19 – Rigol caught with their pants down!

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:26:41 +0000

Rigol caught with their pants down! An issue with the Rigol DS1052E Oscilloscope.
Or perhaps it’s Analog Devices caught out?
(correction – there are only 2 PLL’s in the model FPGA used in the Rigol)

EEVblog #18 – The Garmin Etrex GPS investigated

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:12:43 +0000

How can a consumer electronics product last on the shelf for more than 10 years? The Garmin Etrex GPS investigated.

EEVblog #17 – I hope your next project DOESN’T work!

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:19:22 +0000

I hope your next project DOESN’T work!, dual-purpose I/O pins can be a trap, and www.octopart.com
(P.S Sorry about the audio, been playing around with a new mic)

EEVblog #16 – All about CMOS SCR Latchup

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:22:51 +0000

All about CMOS SCR Latchup

EEVblog #15 Part 2 of 2 – Fluke 189/289 Multimeter Review & 87V Comparison

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:43:43 +0000

Fluke 189/289 Multimeter Review & Fluke 87V Comparison

EEVblog #15 Part 1 of 2 – Fluke 189/289 Multimeter Review

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:41:33 +0000

Fluke 189/289 Multimeter Review & Fluke 87 Comparison

EEVblog #14 – An unusual Oscilloscope phenomenon!

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:30:35 +0000

A rather unusual Oscilloscope phenomenon!

EEVblog #13 Part 2 of 2 – PC Based Digital Storage Oscilloscope Comparison

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:51:02 +0000

PC Based Digital Storage Oscilloscope Comparison

EEVblog #13 Part 1 of 2 – Digital Storage Oscilloscope Tutorial

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:49:25 +0000

All about Digital Storage Oscilloscopes

EEVblog #12 Part 2 of 2 – Shanghai Special – Dodgy USB hubs

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:49:30 +0000

Shanghai Special – Dodgy USB hubs

EEVblog #12 Part 1 of 2 – Shanghai Special – PCB Assembly Tour

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:46:55 +0000

Shanghai Special – PCB Assembly Tour

EEVblog #11 Part 2 of 2 – DIY product design

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:39:27 +0000

EEVblog #11 Part 1 of 2 – DIY product design

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:37:25 +0000

The Art of Electronics book review, and talk about DIY product design.

EEVblog #10 Part 2 of 2 – Fluke 87V Multimeter review

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:40:08 +0000

Fluke 87-V Multimeter review continued

EEVblog #10 Part 1 of 2 – More cheap Chinese Multimeters

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:38:04 +0000

More on cheap Chinese Multimeters, how a rubber band cost millions of dollars, and the Fluke 87-V Multimeter reviewed.

EEVblog #9 – ThermoChron iButton and Microchip PICkit2

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 17 May 2009 00:10:23 +0000

TI buys Luminary Micro, Maxim/Dallas ThermoChron iButton, Microchip PICkit2

EEVblog #8 Part 2 of 2 – BK Precision 1697 Programmable Lab Power Supply

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 10 May 2009 02:39:18 +0000

Review of the BK Precision 1697 Programmable Lab Power Supply.

EEVblog #8 Part 1 of 2 – Graphical LCD display development

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 10 May 2009 02:36:37 +0000

Graphical LCD display development and PIC demo board stories.

EEVblog #7 – Engineering job interview tips galore!

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:54:42 +0000

Blog update, and Engineering job interview tips galore!

EEVblog #6 – Part 2 of 2 – Why cheap Chinese Multimeters suck

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:19:30 +0000

Why cheap Chinese Multimeters suck.

EEVblog #6 – Part 1 of 2 – Meterman 37XR Multimeter Review

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:13:58 +0000

More Analog Microchip, Meterman 37XR Review

EEVblog #5 – Instek Function Generator Review

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:10:30 +0000

Maxim rant, Analog Microchip, Instek Function Gen Review

EEVblog #5 Podcast Video

EEVblog #4 – Low Power Calculator Design and FPGAs

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:07:57 +0000

Dodgy low power calculator design, Annoying FPGA’s, LCD’s, & Mr Bean

EEVblog #4 Podcast

EEVblog #3 – Anti Static Myths Busted

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:00:43 +0000

DSP, Annoying PIC Micro, Static Myths, Pocket Multimeters.

EEVblog #3 Podcast

EEVBlog #2 – Burden Voltage and HP Multimeter Review

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:34:20 +0000

Black Magic, Burden Voltage, FindChips.com, ThisIsANT.com, Retro Review

EEVblog #2 Podcast

Rigol’s History

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:26:26 +0000

For those interested in Rigol, here is a video of Jack Brand, GM of Rigol speaking about their history. They claim to be the #2 manufacturer of oscilloscopes in the world (by volume).

Full review of the Rigol DS1052E

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:15:21 +0000

The review of the Rigol in the first EEVblog had to be edited due to time constraints, so here is the full version.

EEVblog #1 – Rigol DS1052E Oscilloscope Reviwed

david@alternatezone.com (David L. Jones) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:47:16 +0000

Dave’s first video blog. Includes – iWoz review, the LT3085, Hacker Spaces, Atmel’s latest, and Rigol’s DS1052E reviewed.

EEVblog #1 Podcast