Hi it's the end of the first day at Electronics 2014 and I've been run off my feet on the stand behind me here all day and even the cardboard cutout is tired and everyone's busy over at the party the after party over there. but I thought I'd take you around while there's nobody here. so there's literally nobody left on the the stands here so let's go around. could take a while, but I'll walk you through the whole thing.

Let's go here. We go. That's my stand of course. Yes, I'm just doing some MakerBot stuff and endure some - Garneau microscope star showing off the microcurrent things like that, selling t-shirts all sorts of things.

So we've got industry update: they're just a yes Australia's largest circulating manufacturing magazine. There you go for those into manufacturing not really computers and of course Silicon Chip. Yes, Leo is here I Hope you get a a talk to Leo tomorrow, but there are still a world-class magazine. probably the best electronics magazine in the world and they do tons of do-it-yourself projects.

They've got a new valve amplifier or something like that so they do lots over tons of cool stuff and they're still going very strong. So good on Leo and the crew at Silicon Chip. and well, these stands they're just got, you know, some pamphlets and stuff our deck. they're up, you know, simulation and all that sort of jazz for FPGA and ASIC into CAD I Haven't heard of in a CAD but does they do solid work stuff so they've just, you know, showing off their software.

Nothing fancy at all. Picot kit, laser cutters, solder tools, robotic education. so I don't know if they got anything in the box? I Don't think so. What are they doing I'm not sure.

Anyway, Precision Electronic Technologies don't know. Probably assembly something like that. so let's go along here. We've got our Tronics and out Ronix do a 3d printer.

There it is I'm not sure what model that is I'm sure somebody could tell me. So there you go somebody. I came to my stand and said it wasn't It wasn't very good so apparently I don't know. Don't even know how much that one sells for.

But if you know, let me know. They've got the new catalogue out there showing off all their parts of course. Electronics is where I get with a box for my microcurrent made here in Australia I Think we missed a couple of stands I Can probably come back to them. Aerospace and Defense products and vikon that they do.

There we go: Audio precision stuff. high-end audio porn the that's the 525 audio analyzer. but I used to have an audio precision that was worth about four thirty forty thousand dollars. something like that used to have one in the Eevblog lab, but I sold that and yeah yeah.

I don't think they make it anymore. It might have been discontinued. but anyway. Okw Australia and New Zealand a nice little soft Turtles Sagen it like one of those little soft turtles.

I'm sure it's all about the giveaways I reckon I've got the best giveaways with the new micro raw, but they do. were cases of course Art, Rolek, and Okw brain cases and then of course now we've got lots of case manufacturers here, our own Tech and they've got a whole bunch of very nice-looking now they do, you know? I'm sure they do our silk-screening and customized customization and all that sort of stuff. In fact, we saw some of those that last time. They got some lots of motors and that's some very nice-looking nice-looking cases here, so not bad at all.

Really like those might have to pick up a few were a few samples. so here we go. I'll go back down here lest I miss the aisle control devices Australia They've got joysticks and lots of funky stuff like that. that's lots of female launching missiles.

Go for it. Like you know, they've got like nice setups here with all your buttons. You can go in, touch and feel and there we go. Yes, I'm really decent joysticks in there I'm sure they cost her.

you know you're probably false feedback and all sorts of things they probably cost her. Probably cost a fortune you know, for us, simulators and you know, like like real high-end stuff. you know, not not not gaming type stuff. So yeah, there we go there.

Yeah, there's some serious joysticks. Yep, you know, probably for military type simulation and stuff like that. Impact Technologies. they're doing.

what is that thing? so press self clinching fasteners. Okay, so it does. Yeah, it's it's for fasteners. Yep, it's a fastening tool.

So there you go. Maybe they can now fire that up. They do have their own source down there so they can demonstrate that on the stand because these stands just don't pop up in the middle here. They don't have any.

you know, shop air or anything like that. You have to supply supply your own compressors and that's sort of just. and then we've got screen process circuits over here. I Went back to the eevblog stand there and screen process Circus.

They did tons of PCBs and stuff really quite high-end ones. lots of us silk-screening and things like that and you know, control panels, all those customized types of stuff. And they have balloons I don't have balloons. It's disappointing.

Anyway, by the way, if you haven't seen the new I know it's gone. No, they're taking all my micro rules. All right. I'll have to show you later.

But anyway. I I have the best swag and onboard solutions. Looks like, hey, that's that's nice. Nice.

Um I Really like that. what's that sucker doing call that looks really quite neat. so it's some sort of vision. I mean I'm not sure Anyway, solder, all that sort of stuff, solder paste, all that jazz performance.

they do, wire bonding, epoxy, all that sort of jazz. Kara Tech Power supplies. Yes, they came to my stand. these are designed and made in Australia There we go Australian made.

Check it out. I Had never heard of them. which is, you know, interesting. That's a good thing about these trade shows.

You find companies that you know you didn't know existed and they do these nice little brick Dc-to-dc converters and they're all all are designed and manufactured here in Australia Very nice. So they're all ruggedized rugged power you can rely on and they've just got mentees I've got lollies and yeah, great to see an Australian and you know they've got custom military stuff I'm sure that's a big part of their business doing custom power supplies and things like that. So and then we've got some Ayat thermal Tronics we saw those that last time that's from RMS parts. these are a lesser-known are bred but still ok.

I am led to believe THERMOTRONIC so you can actually get these cheaper than you know a lot of the name-brand systems and they've got similar thermal capacity to the JB C's and and others. I believe we've got some LED strips and paths like that Led LED lighting stuff everyone's into LED light in these days and read-back test services. What do they do? They've got some National Instruments stuff some right they be in testing jigs. Okay, so these are custom.

ya can't lift that one up I Don't know. Yeah, probably all comes up a custom test jig solutions. They looks like they design and manufacture. Yeah, it's exactly what they do.

Design and manufacture customized test systems for your products. you know, a little bed of nails and things like that. or the pogo pogo pins down there. They're all your different types of different types of pogo pins for all your solutions.

Don't oppress on the sharp one. that could be rather nasty, but yeah as I'm very handy if you need to are designed and produce your own because like actually making your own one of these. I've designed tons of designed and built a lot of automated test gear and manual test ski with better nails and that stuff like this and they can actually be quite tricky, especially to get one really nicely engineered like this. I mean this thing is just that thing is beautiful, you know, but they'll charge you a fortune for actually designed in manufacturing that.

But if you're serious, then there are companies that specialize in these things are photo etch industries. There we go. As their name says, they do a chin over there you go. little like heat sinks and shields and just like that, not yeah, lots of little custom parts.

They're really quite nice. Best in Show 2014 Didn't know there was a Best in Show flexible printed circuit material or sausage as that. Interesting. Oh yeah, what's new in electronics? They've been going like god.

Oh no. 30 years or something like that I don't really read it anymore I've got a little bit I'm sure they'd be disappointed to say that, but it's not like you know, silicon is not as interesting to me the trade journals anymore and Powerbox an Emirati coat. Yep, so they're doing a whole ton of motors. Those Dc2 motor with planetary gearbox and all that sort of jazz.

terrific permanent magnet DC motors and power supplies. so power supply modules, but they just don't import those. They're not designed and manufactured like the other ones. Reed industrial graphics.

and yet they do all your custom button fat panels and all the tactile dome switch panels and things like that. Once again, very handy. See if you come to a show like this, you can pretty much find a company to do everything you need. you know? design and design manufacture test.

we've got on Track Technologies looks like that's a selectively our soldiering that's a automated soldering machine. So there you go. You've got a custom jig here which holds your board in place and then of course it's automated like a like a surface mount pick-and-place machine. But you've got the yeah, the solder just dispenses through there and you've got a soldering iron which comes down I'll show those in operation.

In the previous one previous videos of these shows, they got everything covered up and Tektronix there you go Tektronix are here and they've got all their gear covered up but we'll have a peek under here. So they got their MD oh of course you know and all their demo boards. Yep, there we go. yep MDO coming out their backside there MSO scope and also they've got their TBS the TBS is silly.

sorry now I'm doing a video blog. that's what I do I'm there going around getting video. Okay, yep, thanks and yet they've got. Oh there we go.

Digital Signal analyzer. that's very serious business and that's an even more serious demo board. Check that out. One point six gig bit, maximum eight gig bit.

So yeah, some really serious stuff coming out of there test board and there you go. It's peak under there real-time signal analyzer to 26 and a half gig. If you have to ask the price you can't afford it from Tektronix Well they do make nice stuff. so embedded logic solutions.

They've got a Lpkf yep board printer. There you go there it is. They've been routing out some boards there. these are good machines.

My then you know if you're going to get a boy, if you're going to actually buy invest in a board routing machine getting Lpkf, they're pretty. You know, basically the industry leaders, the benchmark. And by the way, if you're wondering what the after parties like here you go. Here's the after party.

Everyone happily drinking, drinking all the free grog. There's V She's one of the organisers she is. and yep, everyone's is still hanging around. So these are all the exhibitors plus people from the trade show.

Smile, vie, thank you And so that's the after-party that everyone stays back for. It's getting a bit rowdy now I think people starting to starting to drink a bit more or got scientific devices Australia And they do work. Yeah, they've got Keithley gear coming out their wazoo. There we go.

So they're obviously distributors for Keithley and Stanford and they do a bunch of art custom. Oh, they're just distributors for other stuff. We looked at those last time. actually.

mechatronics. Yes, they do soldering. So yeah, I've got super lube. You got to have your super lube.

Absolutely always have a tube of Lube There you go, there's a quote. always have a tube of Lube ready for electronics and yeah, lots of cutters things like that. So and away here we go. This carry in box yet? we've been to them.

but here's a keysight and our trio. but they're not called trio smart Cal anymore. The trio test and measurement chose who you've seen on the blog a few times and yeah, we've got this night than one of the nice analogue sorry, another nice Agilent handheld scopes. they're really nice, the Fieldfox that's an awesome port of the spectrum analyzer, and the huge Infinium S series.

Look at that. Oh MSOs 804 10-bit ADC 10-bit ADC Folks, let's zoom in on that because that's worthwhile. Look at that. there's the money shot.

Eight gig 10-bit ADC 20 gig sample per second. That's serious business. and there are. It's not.

No, it's almost a stent. It's no, it's not a standard B and C it's uh, you know? Well, it did like its interface fit is standard B and C. But yeah, that's super special I don't ask how much they cost, it's mixed signal of course. And yeah, that's a very, very serious scope.

Oh man. once again, if you ask the price, you can't afford it. Siglent power supplies Charles A big fan of the sealants And the main news DC Electronic load And here's the new Sigma of the SDS 2000 series. So I'm probably going to have a look at that soon.

I Do have an open offer to have a look at that and the Grattan our spectrum analyzer which I think we've seen on the blog somewhere before and one of these puppies. No, no, it's not. No, it's not in there. Anyway, that's really quite excited by what's in there.

and of course more. Our Agilent excess down and six X-series 6000. Whoa! Jeez, how long we be gone for Element14? So they got all their requisite Element 14 stuff. They're probably flogging the ass out of the Raspberry Pi Yeah, there we go.

Yeah, it's all about the Raspberry Pi look at that everyone wants PI And Mag magnetics are important. Of course you know you want your Transformers. There you go one. a custom round transformer comes custom round our common mode choke.

all important stuff and well, somebody's got to do it. It's not a glamorous industry, but yep. Marquis Magnetics. They will wind you your transformers and do all that fun stuff.

They're a bunch of funsters I'm sure and they just love their transformers. Well-worth electronic and once again, we've got lots of chokes. Look at that chokes. As far as the eye can see, they're good display cards.

Look at that. That's a great shot. Jeez. And some of these aren't kits.

If you can ever get like common-mode kits and things like that you can ask, you can get them for free from the manufacturers if you ask very nicely. Look at that. Yeah, a ferrite clip on that kit. I've never seen one of those that's really quite neat and yet more magnetics coming out your wazoo.

So there you go. There's two stands with magnetics. Oh yeah, there's the energy harvesting kit which I've got that's got the giant gecko in it and yep, I've seen that. I Still have to do more stuff with that and Koala code circuits manufacture.

PCBs There we go. They've got some examples down there and let's have a look see a four-layer micro BGA Impedance control. all that sort of jazz. Love.

that's a serious board I Don't know who that was for that. Jeez, that's yeah. it's a serious layout there folks. Let me tell you, they are not easy.

As a former professional PCB designer I can attest to the work and artistry which goes into boards like that. Trust me, that's someone's work for. you know I could be. you know, six months, four months, something like that.

It's you know by the time your muck around and do all sorts of stuff and get it all you know, first and second spin and all that sort of just thermo scientific. it looks like they're into all. Oh yeah, there's a Eco. It's a decade resistance box.

old-school stuff and digital bench meter. look just really old-school My god that you know what you'd find at a classroom. You know, type level for just or you know, an industrial. that process you just.

you don't want a multimeter. you just want something with a big-ass display and no fuss. No mucking around, the operator can't screw it up. all that sort of stuff.

That's what you want. and I mean well. power supplies. They were here last time.

they do. Am this is the one I Think that's exactly the one for my MakerBot There you go. So from the power supply, my MakerBot fails I reckon I could just pick one off the stand here and I think that's the absolute identical supply. So know it.

we've missed a few more. Hang on, we've missed Master Cut I Know this is gone forever, but this is what I do find my design yet. RMS Parts Optimum printed circuit board solutions. so they are on call.

Design managed. Reduced cost, minimized right? So they do our board layouts for you. There you go. So a contractor layout? you know? testimonials.

Look, we did this. Fantastic. That's a pretty minimal stand from Master Cut. There you go.

but their stuff is no less important. Mineral much you want? Minimalist Apex Tool Group What? They gone home there, they've taken their bat and ball and they've gone home. And Terra Path Micro at Low Pressure Molding Macro: Milt Yeah, low pressure molding machine little at I Don't think they got it? Yeah, they might yet. Yep, they've got their own a supply in the back there so they could probably operate that might come back.

and I get a good look at that and so that could be fascinating. Don't know how they how they work exactly, but Vgl connectors? There you go. So all your military style or your military connectors? There you go. Military grade? Yeah, they're all the ones I'm used to.

and trust me, they cost a fortune. They really do. You know, the combined fiber-optic one. So they'll have fiber optic in the middle there along with the pins.

I'm used to that? you know it was nothing to pay. You know, Five hundred bucks per connector in volume? Right in volume in the thousands for those connectors. So yep, Oh, all right, HW Technologies Move this. Here we go.

What do we got? Big pick-and-place machine and we've got like a router. so that's yeah. that's so that could be a board router and this thing an SMD tower is rather fascinating. It's my data of course, one of the big players, but um, you know it's a storage storage solution.

so this is one of the storage beds out of out of this machine. so you you know you can. It just stores all your parts in there I think and probably under maybe our climate-controlled dark conditions. of course you know moisture and all that sort of stuff.

Maybe it's a maybe they do some baking as well, but Ice talked about there. But before you know baking of parts, it's important. We're back to you at Keysight and Trio Test and Measurement. All right.

PCB Design Services: Once again, you need your PCBs designed. There's companies who will do that here and in tech of course. they make tons of PCBs I've used in tech before and there's some more artistry there from some PCB designer who will no doubt go uncredited. Which is a shame because a lot of a lot of talent goes into PCB design and they're not very well appreciated.

Us PCB Designers anyway. I'm got splicing and stuff like that. Very important. There you go.

the jail connector. There you go where people are probably familiar with those they pulley. Yeah, yeah, what are you talking about I use those all the time. Those splices, M2m connectivity and yep, got lots of wireless solutions there and things like that.

Little modules, radio modules GSM modules, all that sort of jazz, tons of it. and LX Design House. check out their stand. Look at that.

Love the projection screen. They've got to see the projector down the bottom, down in there. they've just got that tilt it up and then a a glass panel like that and it turns it into a huge big projection screen that's actually oh, it's beating. I'm sorry on the just the frame rate of the video camera, but trust me, that is a a rock-solid image on that screen.

I'm shooting this at 250 a shutter speed of one two hundred and fiftieth over second with 50 frames per second. So obviously something's are. something's beating there. Hopefully the you appreciate the fixed a frame over the fixed shutter speed.

On this, there should be little blurry. like if I pan like that, you should get very little blurring on this camera. You know if I pan. Really? Even if I pan fast like that, it should, you know this should be very.

If you pause it there, you probably shouldn't be able to see any blurring, but it could mean a grainy image at this lower shutter speed. That's a really nice way to get a huge diameter screen in here. Like just set it up on these stands. They would have bought that in and it's you know.

Well obviously if you're bought a bought it, you know an actual screen that big it would be would be absolutely massive and probably weigh a lot and hard difficult to get in and not set it up anyway. Lin Tek PCBs They do really top-quality really expensive custom boards made here in Australia And yet there we go. I've got some RF filters happening down in there. There we go and they do.

You know, real, like high end, You know, controlled impedance, real special materials. You know that's what they real, You know, satellite boards, all that sort of stuff. really exotic materials. and RF yeah, look at those.

look at those beautiful. or if you know, like a front-end mixer. you know, spectrum analyzer type boards. and you know all those microwave stuff.

So all those my exotic microwave boards. they manufacture those all here. you know they won't do like your regular, you know, two layer boards. That's not really their business.

So let's go back to the road. and Schwartz this one's taking a while. no longer have been going I Forgot to reset my counter on the camera, but did we get semi crime? I think we got some. no we didn't get semi crime.

They got fans and there we go semi cry and all sorts of yep, huge look at those calves Kindle they air monsters and looks like they do really high power. Yeah, high power semiconductors, thyristors, really medium-voltage service. does all that sort of jazz. Like we're talking serious business here.

Six kilovolt stuff. you know, thousands of amps. Look at that. Well, they menu a West code.

Are there an excess company? Okay, so that's some exes. I've done some of their solar cells before I think on the blog, but yeah, so real high-power more industrial exotic stuff. The semi cube, three-phase IGBT inverter plus phase rectifier. There you go.

nice Inter Win compact Vector network analyzer are there you go. I'll have to enter maybe I like that Clark and saloon. By the way, they've been around forever and they do. You know their importance for cables and connectors and all that sort of jazz? So into here to win.

Yes, Beautiful Rohde Schwarz. We almost miss Rohde & Schwarz either surface parent, our Circuit Board association? of course, are they. They hold a conference here, which is up upstairs up in this venue. so this is anyway.

Rohde & Schwarz always have this flashy sign so they got it ready to whip out as their four gig 20 gig sample. RTO Whoops, there it is. And they've got some of their low-end stuff. There we go.

Oh yeah, it's the hey Meg Well, it's Neal got Rohde & Schwarz on it. Pain in the ass. Anyway, that's the spectrum analyzer and they're programmable power supply. 384 water and one gig are 5 gig samples per second.

Rohde Schwarz, Cope, hello and Emi test receiver Yep, real specialized stuff. but if you're in that industry, of course you already know who rode in. Schwarzer and there's a 20 hour, 4 gig, 20 d sample of a second scope and a Veck were a vector signal generator just up everyone's leaving. food.

The beer must have run out. Aha. Rowan Schwartz Um, Oscilloscope. Five hundred million five gig samples per second.

The RTM 205 four series. that's an interesting-looking one I'm gonna have to of hand I don't know that one. Clark and server. Now of course we are in the awesome Australian Technology Park And this is where they used to manufacture all of the there we go.

There's all the people still hanging around there. we go getting the free food and the free booze. It's all about the booze and these. They used to manufacture the trains in here, all the railway carriages and stuff like that and repair them and do all sorts of jazz.

and they've got all the original with. You know, the all the original machines. but I've probably shown those last time. but all the original machines? you know that's a journal in a axle and journal lathe look at that from 1956 I mean you know that's serious serious and that's real engineering right there.

And then this electronics stuff which we do Glen Wireless solutions your Internet of Things specialist? Oh yes, Internet of Things. We all love the Internet of Things And yet there are Fujitsu Yeah it was our buy stand today telling me about the they feature two arm boards so there you go. you might see one of those in the mailbag soon. Hammond Yet Hammond boxes are Clarkin Submit! did we do Clark and severe? Oh yes we did.

Yes! All the Hammond boxes of course. done interview with Hammond last time. look at that money shot of all those cases. Oh yes.

and they got yeah. free pens, free cases, things like that. Get samples. It's always good to get box samples when you come to these shows.

You can never have too many boxes and stuff like that in your get because you may just decide to. There's the loan security guard you may decide to, you know, use that case. It's always good to have you know you can. Really, you know, get a get a feel for projects I Don't know what's under there but Psychobot systems? They're hiding lots of super-secret stuff I Don't know why they put bother to cover things up and that's uber engineering of course.

They've been around forever and looks like we have another storage solution there we go that's not as fancy as the other one. the other one was all wrote ad and I don't know, it just looked funkier new in US Australasia There you go and they got a huge peak in place under there. There we go the board shoots out one end in the other and visual inspection. They've got some Takano microscopes exactly the same as mine and Hawker Richardson of course Jim Challenger He's been on the blog before and they've always got lots of interesting Mantis stuff of course and the Mantis links they cover those up the optics yep and that's the one I've got and we're getting there.

It's almost finished. Henchman products I think hey, they got a tougher, they're not. they're not the real deal No and lots of nice tools. lots of hand tools.

They do. we are tools so all you where your fanboys out there get really excited and there we go. Lots of salt up Lots Earlier they've got the bars look without the lead-free solder bars which they dip into the wave soldering machines they got that. They're a fluke reseller and all that sort of jazz.

So tons of soldering stuff from henchmen and another inspection ash inspection microscope look at that that looks really quite funky so that's quite impressive. I think I was contacted by somebody about those, so maybe we'll see those. And of course we've got Omona instruments. They're Rygel I weight lifter you've already seen Roy go a million times, but they've got all the requisite Rygar stuff.

That's all they're flogging here. pretty much there. I Go I go I go and John South of course from Omona. seen him on the blog before and machinery forum have some nice gear under There there.

we go. Hybrid Rework station. hey that image isn't too noisier - I know it's flashing at me 250 Yeah it was flashing. It was too noisy at 201 250th of a second sorry there a taper, a feeder mechanism for pick-and-place machine and AHS test laboratories.

They are there. you know EMC testing and stuff like that you can tell by the records at EMC test antenna in their electrical safety. So if you need to get your product Us certified of course you know there's somebody here to do that. and conga Tech Australia almost missed him.

These are the last year they've got a nice looking girl there on the showing off the products. She has no clue, she's just a model I'm sure. but I will certainly apologize if she is actually the designer of that board. She could very well be.

You never know and just lots a little. Our embedded processor boards they look at yeah, high-end performance. They got a core I7, quad-core I7 3 display ports, all that sort of jazz on one neat little compact board. It local low consumption so they're targeting.

you know, fast and combat low-power comms. you know, error protected Ram industrial temperature. You know if you're using inside a high, real harsh environment or if your low-power is your only driving requirement. So ah, their pads are not real boards.

There you go. And that is about all she wrote. There's Me right down There Let's see if I can zoom in there. I Am hey look at hey, that's not a bad.

No, that's not a bad zoom at all. Look at that. Yes! I do have freebies and I am selling the t-shirts and yes it is the Amp hour as well. Sorry what? I realized in this dynamic image stabilization tends to jump around.

It is got face tracking. It has detected my face and it is face track in there. There you go. So and you can see the out lights on my MakerBot flickering beating against the frame rate of the camera.

Whoa. So there you go that is. Oh goodness. A thorough walk around after hours of the Electronics 2014 show from my Army's very Tykes.

I'm carrying this around on the tripod. it's rather heavy. you're on. and yeah, I think we got everyone.

Yeah, I think we did. So there you go. Hope you enjoy it. No no, I'm not zoomed out all the way.

There we go. Oh that's better. And there's my stand, the eevblog the Amp hour so it's been fun run off my feet all day. it's absolutely crazy.

What is it there? It's now seven o'clock at night. I should probably head home. Yeah, another pack today. tomorrow the wife is coming over to man the stand.

The Sagan makes a guest appearance as well. Everyone loved him here. today. They thought he was cute and well no, actually that couch is looking very inviting.

Catch you next time.