Product design fail – ideal multimeter
Bad Product Design 101: How to screw up your product with a simple design oversight. The IDEAL brand 61-342 looked…
Eevblog #90 – linear and ldo regulators and switch mode power supply tutorial
Just how different are linear, LDO and switching buck voltage regulators? I'm glad you asked! You might be surprised... It's…
Eevblog #89 – eevblog live screwup
The first Live EEVblog event - unedited. Dave short circuits his wife's laptop and cuts the feed, proving that anything…
Eevblog #88 – there’s more to electronics than just circuit design
Drive time rant. Dave talks about how circuit design and prototyping can often come last in the design process. And…
Eevblog #87 – let’s hop on the electronics design merry-go-round
Dave demonstrates how much fussing around can be involved in selecting just a couple of cost optimised parts for a…
Eevblog #86 – buy a real analog oscilloscope please!
Drive time rant. Dave is sick of getting emails asking if the cheap toy DSO nano and FPGA/PIC/AVR oscilloscope kits…
Proof that telstra bigpond is throttling youtube bandwidth in australia?
Are Telstra (Bigpond), Australia's largest Internet Service Provider deliberately throttling (capping) Youtube bandwidth on all of their plans? (even the…
Eevblog #85 – high voltage oscilloscope probe design
Doug Ford shows us how he designed his own 1000:1 high voltage oscilloscope probe. http://www.dfad.com.au and the Oscilloscope probe tutorial:…
Eevblog #84 – high energy multimeter destruction
Let's destroy some multimeters and shoot some metal with Doug's high energy 4KV capacitor discharge unit. Visit Doug at www.dfad.com.au
Eevblog #83 – do you suck at hardware or software?
Drive time rant. Hardware vs Software, which one do you suck at?