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Teque5:
Just to start:

0. Describe your top 10 workbench tools.
1. Be a guest on the http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ and talk about audiophile cable pseudoscience. They have a large audience that would likely be interested. You would generate a ton of traffic for your vidblog and I think they might be interested.
2. Cover some [recent] clever hardware hacks:
2.1. How the original GB ROM got dumped by decapping the chip holding it and reading out the values with an Electron Microscope (two thirds down the pge, the post by nevikisti from Wed, 05/18/2005 - 10:26). Thread itself deals with how they tried to dump the SNES DSP1 chip, but ultimately failed to do so. They were still able to dump the ROM though. http://www.cherryroms.com/forums/copier-and-hardware-forum/manually-extracting-rom.html?page=2
2.2. How to dump the Color GB ROM: Costis was able to dump the elusive boot ROM from the Gameboy Color by using various voltage and clock glitching tricks. The boot ROM is what initializes the Gameboy hardware, displays the 'GAMEBOY' logo and animation, and makes the trademarked 'cling!' sound effect. Even decapping the CPU had failed previously, but now the boot image and specifics on how it was dumped (along with many photos) are available for download. This was just completed and a cool read. http://www.fpgb.org/?page_id=17
3. More tool reviews!

Neilm:
I would like to see a blog on safety of multi-meters. There have been a couple on cheap meters and the reliability (or lack thereof) but neither of these mentioned any safety aspect. During the course of my work, I have seen the results of a cheap meter with a 600V CAT III rating meeting a surge of the correct voltage on a 600V supply. It was the first time I had seen a meter explode...

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Neilm on October 14, 2009, 07:14:30 pm ---I would like to see a blog on safety of multi-meters. There have been a couple on cheap meters and the reliability (or lack thereof) but neither of these mentioned any safety aspect. During the course of my work, I have seen the results of a cheap meter with a 600V CAT III rating meeting a surge of the correct voltage on a 600V supply. It was the first time I had seen a meter explode...

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That's on the cards, assuming I can get/build an appropriate HV surge generator. I'm acquiring meters for a "multimeter destruction" episode!

Dave.

GeekGirl:
Hi,

I would like to see some blogs on DIY Test Equipment, like the uCurrent, PSU's etc.

I was also wondering if it was possible for "Guest" Presenters, have other people submit Vblogs to you for posting (could increase the number of blogs per week with hardly any time needed by Dave)

74HC04:

--- Quote ---I was also wondering if it was possible for "Guest" Presenters, have other people submit Vblogs to you for posting (could increase the number of blogs per week with hardly any time needed by Dave)
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I really like this idea, especially if the content undergoes a little light moderation (only to ensure quality of submissions remains acceptable and relevant). Just my 2p worth but it'd be nice to see the EEV blog become a "one stop" video blog for quality EE videos, perhaps separated from Dave's own content?

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