EEVblog #107 – Live Show #4

The 4th Live EEVbog show. Dave answering questions in the lab and flashing the odd bit of hardware around.

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EEVblog #106 – Top 5 Tips To Bring Your Product to Market

Are you are a hobbyist, hacker, maker, or garage engineer with a great product idea? Dave gives you his Top 5 tips for bringing your product to market. And a bonus Top 5 reasons to avoid patents. Copyright, Marketing, Advertising, Protection, and Creative Commons Open Source all get a look in.

The Creative Commons licenses available: http://creativecommons.org/licenses

Watch the Google ads for the invention/patent companies ironically show up here now! —>

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EEVblog #98 – Microsoft InstaLoad Battery Technology – Patent Busting Time?

Microsoft’s new Instaload battery technology allows batteries to be inserted into a product either way around.
Is it one of those brilliant “why didn’t anyone think of that before” moments, or just another silly patent on a really obvious idea?
Is it workable in practice?
Can YOU bust the patent by finding prior art before 2006?

See the Microsoft Patent here:
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=hVXGAAAAEBAJ

OR DOWNLOAD THE FULL PDF PATENT HERE: http://www.eevblog.com/files/Microsoft%20Instaload%20Patent%20US7527893.pdf

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EEVblog #96 – The TI LaunchPad MSP430 Development Board

Drive-Time.
Dave rants randomly about TI’s bold new entry into the hobby/hacker/maker market with the $4.30 MSP-EXP430G2 Evaluation Board, and what it’s got to do with the Arduino.

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EEVblog #94 – Near Death Multimeter Experience

Dave was looking forward to reviewing the new Extech RC200 SMD Tweezer Multimeter, until the damn thing tried to kill him. Now he’s, well, kinda mad!…

The Cryrustek ES51928 DMM Chip: www.cyrustek.com.tw/spec/ES51928.pdf

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