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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: digsys on October 17, 2013, 10:11:07 pm
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Hopefully this link works (not sure if you need to be a member) - anyway, it's out there now :-)
www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1319812&itc=eetimes_node_197&cid=20131017&elq=503671c691364491a0776a7baf9cf544&elqCampaignId=1758 (http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1319812&itc=eetimes_node_197&cid=20131017&elq=503671c691364491a0776a7baf9cf544&elqCampaignId=1758)
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...Caleb Kraft, Chief Community Editor..
Ex-hackaday, so no major surprise.
Will be interesting to see how any view count jump compares with being on hackaday (maybe+3k on a good one) ... My guess would be less, much less, but we'll see
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Make that much, much less... idiots.
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I would have liked if they mentioned that this wasn't your first thermal imaging device teardown.
EE Times
Extremely In-Depth Teardown of Flir E4 Thermal Camera
Caleb Kraft, Chief Community Editor
10/16/2013 01:55 PM EDT
You've likely seen iFixit's teardowns before. While they are extremely high quality, they usually stop at the point of disassembly. That is probably what most people are after anyway. However, for the EETimes audience, that can sometimes leave you craving more.
Mike Harrison, of the Youtube channel Mikes's Electric Stuff, has released an incredibly in-depth teardown of the Flir E4 thermal imaging camera. Aside from your typical dismanteling, Mike goes on to place the sensor under a microscope and explore it in extreme detail. Literally pouring over the entire surface of the sensor with high-quality video, all the while offering insight and speculation as to what we are seeing. This alone would be truly fascinating but Mike has more up his sleeve.
His next step is to begin to probe the system, analyzing the output from different pieces and sharing his thought process and results. You can watch him decode the i2c output on his scope from an unpopulated ribbon connector on the board. He also discovers a serial port and shares the entire output of the startup sequence.
What is probably the most surprising is that it appears that he gets every single screw back in place at the end of the video. If you're just curious about the unit he's disassembling, he has also done a rather long review of it that doesn't involve surgery.
He spelled dismantling wrong.
I've often thought, either Mike is extremely good at reassembly, shoots videos out of sequence, or watches his own tear-down to put it back together.
Whatever happened to the "Just Undo It!" tag at the end of the teardowns?
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I would have liked if they mentioned that this wasn't your first thermal imaging device teardown.
EE Times
What is probably the most surprising is that it appears that he gets every single screw back in place at the end of the video. If you're just curious about the unit he's disassembling, he has also done a rather long review of it that doesn't involve surgery.
I don't know why he calls it surprising - it's hardly difficult - about 10 screws and a couple of clips. Now if I'd taken the lid off the sensor and got it back together, that would have been surprising...
Whatever happened to the "Just Undo It!" tag at the end of the teardowns?
That was specific to the Nike one but maybe I should use it more
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I don't know why he calls it surprising - it's hardly difficult - about 10 screws and a couple of clips. Now if I'd taken the lid off the sensor and got it back together, that would have been surprising...
It's surprising to someone who probably never takes apart something he didn't build himself or didn't intend to put back together in working condition again.
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He spelled dismantling wrong.
The dummy also doesn't know that Mike is poring over the camera, not pouring.
Jeez, the garbage that passes for journalism... :palm:
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He spelled dismantling wrong.
The dummy also doesn't know that Mike is poring over the camera, not pouring.
Jeez, the garbage that passes for journalism... :palm:
As one of the main writers for hackaday (back when he was there) the article's writer was the primary reason I stopped reading it - Caleb and the 'journalists' he hired completely fail to grasp even the most basic tenets of the English language.
It makes me very sad. :(
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Make that much, much less... idiots.
That is among the many reasons I avoid EETimes like the plague that they are. EDN is very flawed, but EETimes makes EDN look great!
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That is among the many reasons I avoid EETimes like the plague that they are. EDN is very flawed, but EETimes makes EDN look great!
+1
Also they should watch those DSLR teardown vids, must be shitting in their pants.
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He spelled dismantling wrong.
The dummy also doesn't know that Mike is poring over the camera, not pouring.
Jeez, the garbage that passes for journalism... :palm:
Maybe he's trying to be British and hypercorrecting... :-DD
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According to YT stats, 28 views via eetimes, 56 via eevblog.....
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According to YT stats, 28 views via eetimes, 56 via eevblog.....
Yup, sounds about right.
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28 extra views, and possibly one extra contract for Mike from there in the next year at a good rate. All good for the contract engineer who is good at his job and gives a good close to turnkey product.