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
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 fou
he's absolutely the best in the world at what he does.
Speaking honestly and candidly (and I know you will have no problem with that!), which of these would you rather be doing?
if "what Dave does" is defined as being a YouTube content creator for electronics folks, then I think he is exceptionally good at what he does.
What strikes me is the absolute lack of really good electronics content on YouTube. There are a few guys who obviously really have no clue what they are doing when it comes to electronics and are doing more equipment reviews and delving into irrelevant minutiae on spec sheets. Then there are a whole crapload of people doing stupid shit with Arduinos. And a bunch of people buying cheap Chinese eBay shite and doing teardowns but who don't really understand electronics or design well enough to offer any meaningful insight - they just narrate what we're already seeing in the video. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not really electronics engineering.. it's people screwing around with stuff.
For people who are really in the electronics business and working on real products, Dave strikes the best combination of humor, knowledge, teaching-ability, insight and quantity of content produced to keep people interested. I think that's why his subscriber base has grown at such a rapid clip.
if "what Dave does" is defined as being a YouTube content creator for electronics folks, then I think he is exceptionally good at what he does.
For people who are really in the electronics business and working on real products, Dave strikes the best combination of humor, knowledge, teaching-ability, insight and quantity of content produced to keep people interested. I think that's why his subscriber base has grown at such a rapid clip.
I'd love to see Mike Harrison doing more videos - he has an amazing insight into so many varied areas of electronics (and just stuff in general) that I could watch his stuff all day long, but unfortunately he has a day job and his videos are fewer and farther between than I'm sure we'd all like
If you look at the tutorial content on the eevblog and you look at the stuff in the projects section of the forum there isn't anything being discussed that needs test gear with fantastic accuracy. It's pretty much all student level stuff you could do with a few items of cheap used test gear and $2 crystal oscillator modules from Farnell.
But then when you watch the eevblog videos (or similar blogger videos from other people) it is always set against a backdrop of a bench that is littered with lab grade megadigit DMMs and calibration gear, flashy new scopes, new function generators, new programmable PSUs etc etc.
There is also a HUGE emphasis set against evaluating these (new) products.
It's interesting (and entertaining) to watch reviews on this stuff but I don't think the balance is right.
But I guess if the balance was better there would be fewer subscribers and far fewer people spending money on the products in the reviews.
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.
Because we all have an obsession with test gear and our lab, it's a sickness
I'd love to see Mike Harrison doing more videos - he has an amazing insight into so many varied areas of electronics (and just stuff in general) that I could watch his stuff all day long, but unfortunately he has a day job and his videos are fewer and farther between than I'm sure we'd all like
The danger here is you will all end up creating a new breed of hobby EE who see a particular class of test gear as a kind of entry requirement to join the gang.
It's not a major gripe... I enjoy your videos and I think you are very talented and so are the other major bloggers. But my gripe is that they are also surrounded by high end test gear when they are in the camera view. The danger here is you will all end up creating a new breed of hobby EE who see a particular class of test gear as a kind of entry requirement to join the gang.
I am glad that most everyone likes Dave......
I am glad that most everyone likes Dave......
You are talking to a biased group here!
I get daily hate mail, and a couple of death threats a year.
I am glad that most everyone likes Dave......
You are talking to a biased group here!
I get daily hate mail, and a couple of death threats a year.
The hate mail makes sense but
Death threats??
What???
GN
There are people who get violent when Dave says that you can never have too many oscilloscopes.
Good at what? Video blogging or electronics?
You are talking to a biased group here!
I get daily hate mail, and a couple of death threats a year.
I get daily hate mail, and a couple of death threats a year.
I am glad that most everyone likes Dave......
You are talking to a biased group here!
I get daily hate mail, and a couple of death threats a year.