Mailbag Monday, teardown bonanza! Forum HERE SPOILERS: – West German Geiger Counter Teardown – 6:35 Leo Bodnar Oscilloscope 40ps Pulse Generator for oscilloscope bandwidth measurement. – 11:32 Pocket Sprite Keyring Gameboy Teardown – 14:31 Defibrillato...
Taking a look at a sub 3 cent microcontroller, and other obscure Chinese manufactures, how to find them, and were to get them in stock. http://www.padauk.com.tw https://lcsc.com Forum HERE
A look at how the Banksy artwork prank “Girl with a Balloon” shredded itself moments after being sold for £1M at a Sotheby’s auction. How long did it sit idle waiting to be triggered?, and was this actually possible?
More Mailbag Monday Forum HERE SPOILERS: A-TEK AT-601 PC ISA Bus Design Breadboarding Tool Gigatron TTL computer update Home VintageTek museum XY demo board https://www.ebay.com/str/vintagetek 1970’s Casio CQ-1 Calculator Zofz PCB Gerber Viewer https:/...
How to turn a horrible unorganised schematic into a nice readable modular schematic with proper signal flow. Tips on industry standard and expected layout techniques. Using the open source Haasoscope oscilloscope as an example.
Follow-up to the Studio Monitor Noise video, replacing the mains power supply with a battery supply. Does the noise floor go away? Forum HERE
Yes, Mailbag Monday is back! Weekly mailbag videos to come. Perhaps the worst schematic ever seen? SPOILERS: Only two items for today’s Mailbag, and I had a lot to say on each. The WIHA SpeedE Electric Screwdriver 16:10 Will the HaasoScope 4CH 60MHz 20...
What’s is this obscure 1970’s bit of kit from a big name manufacturer? AliExpress Affiliate Forum HERE
This sub US$500 Eakins microscope from Aliexpress seems identical to the new AU$1800 Suba Engineering microscope for 1/3 the cost. And Dave shows how it can out perform the $4500 Tagarno! http://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/b7ycSav2 http://s.click.
Inside the new Rigol 7000 Series oscilloscope with custom ASIC’s. Also a look at the bootloader code for potential hacks. Forum HERE Hi-res photos: