A dual layer touch screen calculator watch in 1983? Amazing! Teardown of the rather obscure Casio TC-500 Forum HERE
A retro look at the 2005 Xbox 14 million unit power cord replacement issue and a teardown and analysis of the supplied protection device from Microsoft. Some interesting engineering lessons to be learned. UPDATE: Apparently what this is an “Arc Fault C...
Xmas Mailbag SPOILERS: Mand Labs electronics learning kit: (yes, 27 minutes of it) 27:08 Petzl climbing harness 33:20 RC2014 home brew DIY Z80 computer kit on Tindie 39:00 Custom test leads 40:40 Aircraft 121.
Review and teardown of Little British Monitors, a small compact bluetooth monitor available as a kit on Kickstarter Forum HERE
Teardown Tuesday-ish random dumpster dive! What parts can we salvage from and automated coffee machine? and how does it work? Forum HERE
One item mailbag! A look at the Swissmicro DM42, the world’s most precise pocket calculator. A clone and improvement of the famous HP42S, with open source firmware based on the Free42 platform. https://www.swissmicros.com/dm42.phphttp://thomasokken.
PCB mod boards are useful for a whole range of applications and scenarios from production to upgrades, repair, and hacks. Dave shows you several examples and talks about creating manufacturing panels for them, along with castellations, V-Scoring,
A look at the dual bipolar transistor zener clamp circuit, and it’s usefulness as a fast low leakage overload clamp. The first part is lifted from video #1000 with 12 minutes of extra commentary. Interview with Dave Taylor,
A look inside the die-cast alloy Focal Professional CMS40 active nearfield studio monitor speakers. Forum HERE
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