Eevblog #519 – ardusat arduino based cubesat satellite
Jonathan Oxer from Freetronics talks about the Ardusat project and shows his Arduino based cluster board for running Arduino sketches…
Eevblog #518 – 9v alkaline battery construction
What's inside a 9V Alkaline Battery? Are they all created the same? Is Duracell better than Energizer? Dave opens up…
Eevblog #517 – car airbag controller teardown
What's inside a modern car airbag controller? This is is from TRW and comes from a late model Hyundai. Forum:…
Eevblog #516 – ltspice tutorial – dc operating point analysis
Part 1 in a series of LTSPICE tutorial videos. In this introduction Dave explains what LTSPICE is and how to…
Electronex 2013 announcement
http://www.electronex.com.au/ The biggest electronics show in Australia is on Sept 11th and 12th in Melbourne. Dave will be there. Effortlessly…
2013 australian federal election rant
Dave rants about the 2013 Australian federal election this weekend, September 7th. It's all about the National Broadband Network, how…
Eevblog #515 – battery ionic resistance investigation
Dave investigates the ionic electro-chemical resistance of some Alkaline batteries under light multimeter input loading and an unusual physical battery…
Eevblog #514 – $5 mobile phone teardown – lg800g
What's inside a modern bare bones $5 mobile phone? The LG800G available from Tracphone for $5: http://www.tracfone-orders.com/bpdirect/tracfone/PhoneDetails.do?action=view&productVariantExtensionId=23
Eevblog #513 – mailbag
Mailbag galore. Dave screws up and releases the magic smoke on the best mailbag item ever! - the time circuits…
Eevblog #512 – rigol dp832 bad design investigation
Dave started out wanting to investigate the power-on spike on the Rigol DP832 Lab Power Supply, but ended up hunting…