Do you think dave is good at what he does?

[TVman]

Do you think dave is good at what he does?

• Yes
• No
• Yes and No
• I haven't though about that  

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Hunor.

[8086]

Could always make a poll?

But anyway, my answer is of course yes.

[Rigby]

the answer is yes, but his personality can often mask his intelligence from people that don't know how to spot intelligence.

[TVman]

the answer is yes, but his personality can often mask his intelligence from people that don't know how to spot intelligence.

I just made A poll..

[T3sl4co1l]

Is this tasteful to post here? 

Meh, Dave would probably say "fuck it" and let it be

Dave doesn't strike me as, like, a highly analytical, hardcore, decades-experience analog/digital engineer kind of person; if that's required to be "good" at EE, then no, he isn't.  But there's more to EE than just that.  At worst, he's a talented tech with (was it a decade or two?) experience, which still puts him well ahead of a disappointing number of average EEs (let alone new grads..).  And being an EE, he's no tech.

Err, I mean, fukkim, dat lousy aussie bastad!

Tim

[Hydrawerk]

Well, there is nobody else like Dave who does this job, probably.

[TVman]

This is what I put in another post...

You are A great actor Dave!
You did very much fool me!
When I saw all those comments and that picture that's buried in the comments I looked back and saw the solder marks and I started laughing! 2 thumbs up Dave!
You are such A great teacher and A great joker too.
Your the BEST Dave!!!!   

Thanks for A great show!

Hunor.

[mcinque]

the answer is yes, but his personality can often mask his intelligence from people that don't know how to spot intelligence.

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Meh, Dave would probably say "fuck it" and let it be

I've learnt a lot from Dave. Expecially that my knowledge is almost nothing. 

[BravoV]

Add choice no.5  please ... "Too many smileys !"

[dr.diesel]

Define does, like all of us he does lots of things?

[TVman]

Add choice no.5  please ... "Too many smileys !"

Can you put that in plain English,Please?

[Phaedrus]

TVman, no offense, how old are you?

[TVman]

TVman, no offense, how old are you?

11 why?

[TVman]

No no's so far :

[EEVblog]

Good at what? Video blogging or electronics?

[TVman]

Good at what? Video blogging or electronics?

Both,but mostly electroics!!
F.Y.I. this is the first time you have replied to one of my comments...

[TVman]

YaY!!!!!
No member has said no.

Then someone says no

[EEVblog]

Both,but mostly electronics

Well, I think I'm ok at it. Wouldn't have made a living from it since 1989 and made it to senior electronics design engineer at several companies if I wasn't at least competent I guess?
The problem is you've seen hardly any of my commercial work on the blog. I didn't start the blog until I was working at Altium, and then I couldn't / didn't talk much about what I was doing at the time. As for previous companies, well, most of that documentation stayed at the company, I have some stuff to show off, but only a very small percentage of stuff I've worked on.
And as for now, well, "doing the blog" whilst having a life etc means little time to work on meaty electronics projects. So it's not like I can easily say I'm going to spend a year developing some huge electronics system or product, and then show it off. It doesn't work like that.

[TVman]

I have been in electronics for many decades, and yes I think Dave is very good at what he does [both as an engineer and as a content provider].  He has different areas of expertise than I do, but for those areas that match his I can see that he has "been there and done that".  Every once in a while, when Dave gets into a fringe subject that I know little about-- I tend to learn something new-- even though I am older than Dave.  I am always learning-- and so should you be!  If there were not people like Dave around-- where would the young players get their knowledge and training from?  IMHO, Dave is providing an extremely valuable service to all of us, but especially those just getting started.  Go Dave!!!

That is some good advice especially since I am only 11...

[TVman]

Both,but mostly electronics

Well, I think I'm ok at it. Wouldn't have made a living from it since 1989 and made it to senior electronics design engineer at several companies if I wasn't at least competent I guess?
The problem is you've seen hardly any of my commercial work on the blog. I didn't start the blog until I was working at Altium, and then I couldn't / didn't talk much about what I was doing at the time. As for previous companies, well, most of that documentation stayed at the company, I have some stuff to show off, but only a very small percentage of stuff I've worked on.
And as for now, well, "doing the blog" whilst having a life etc means little time to work on meaty electronics projects. So it's not like I can easily say I'm going to spend a year developing some huge electronics system or product, and then show it off. It doesn't work like that.

O.K.(I think)

[EEVblog]

He has different areas of expertise than I do, but for those areas that match his I can see that he has "been there and done that".

And that's the thing. The field of electronics is so vast that no one can possibly know it all or have worked on it all.
For me, I've spent several decades designing automated production test systems, low frequency military sonar and seismic survey systems, PCB design (the companies "PCB layout guy"), and other miscellaneous stuff that has gone along with that. So those things I'm of course going to be pretty competent at.
Just like every electronics engineer, there is an awful lot I don't know. Ask me to design a discrete transistor 1KW RF power amp for example and I'd be just as clueless as any other electronics engineer who has never worked on that stuff. And likewise for countless other specific things I've never touched in my career.
Some people are lucky work on a vast amount of varied stuff in their career, others can work in very narrow fields for decades, all designers have vastly different experiences.

[TVman]

He has different areas of expertise than I do, but for those areas that match his I can see that he has "been there and done that".

And that's the thing. The field of electronics is so vast that no one can possibly know it all or have worked on it all.
For me, I've spent several decades designing automated production test systems, low frequency military sonar and seismic survey systems, PCB design (the companies "PCB layout guy"), and other miscellaneous stuff that has gone along with that. So those things I'm of course going to be pretty competent at.
Just like every electronics engineer, there is an awful lot I don't know. Ask me to design a discrete transistor 1KW RF power amp for example and I'd be just as clueless as any other electronics engineer who has never worked on that stuff. And likewise for countless other specific things I've never touched in my career.
Some people are lucky work on a vast amount of varied stuff in their career, others can work in very narrow fields for decades, all designers have vastly different experiences.

That is A very wise quote!

[dexters_lab]

i cant comment too much on Dave's EE skills because i dont know that much anyway, but i have learned a lot watching his videos and i have faith in everything Dave says 

but the point i want to really make is about where the blog has come from and where it is now. I own and run my own business, i can understand how hard it would be to walk away from a job and start something new like this. What Dave has achieved is inspiring from many perspectives.

[EEVblog]

but the point i want to really make is about where the blog has come from and where it is now. I own and run my own business, i can understand how hard it would be to walk away from a job and start something new like this.

Yes, although I'm doing an electronics blog full time, I have effectively walked away from commercial electronics design. I haven't worked on any serious electronics design projects for the last 3 years I've been doing this blog full time. I don't count the uSupply and a few other bits and bobs as any sort of serious design work. They are just hobby projects.
I've gone from working on 1200 pin $5K FPGA's, gigibit ethernet characterisation, and 10,000 data acquisition systems, to opening my mail, ranting, and tearing stuff down. Buy hey, it's a living 

[AG6QR]

I find it interesting that the poll allows you to select all four of "yes", "no", "Yay and nay" and "I haven't thought about that".  Shouldn't those choices be mutually exclusive?  What would it mean for someone to select all four?

Anyway, he's absolutely the best in the world at what he does.  If he retired from the blog, who else could step in and fill his shoes properly?  Nobody that I know of.

That doesn't mean I don't occasionally catch little mistakes, nor does it mean that I heartily enjoy the style of every video.  There are others who have some overlapping talents, and some who can explain certain concepts better.  There are some who can get a point across with more brevity.

But he's got a combination of natural teaching ability, real-world industry experience, integrity, and style that I haven't seen displayed anywhere else.