Ever wanted to learn practical electronics in a structured hands-on online course? My AmpHour radio show co-host Chris Gammell has an excellent new 10 week electronics course called Contextual Electronics starting TODAY! Course prices are HERE, and there are various levels of how you can participate. You can do the …

Dave cleans up the lab and adds some shelves. Exciting stuff. Original lab timelapse build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhsgJnrkQYc Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-570-lab-cleanup-and-shelving/ Podcast: Download

David Kilpatrick from TXAustralia takes us on a detailed tour of the old decommissioned 10kW analog TV transmission system at the Artarmon facility in Sydney. How it all works from the broadcaster video input to final transmission output up the 180m broadcast antenna. Plus some teardowns of the old equipment …

What is the actual capacitance of typical breadboard contacts? It’s not in the datasheet, so Dave decides to measure it. It is well know that breadboards are not suitable for high frequency work due to the stray capacitance between contacts, but how bad is it really? Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-568-solderless-breadboard-capacitance/ Podcast: Download

Dave breadboards a precision 1A current source circuit and finds that even the application reference circuit doesn’t work as expected. Showing that you can’t just blindly trust that datasheet application circuit will work first go. LTC6655  Forum HERE   Podcast: Download