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The EEVblog Live Show

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, geeks and nerds, step right up for the inaugural EEVblog Live Show this Sunday the 23rd @ 2pm PDT (USA), or Monday 24th 8am Sydney EST. It promises to be a nerderific extravaganza of biblical proportions. With pyrotechnics, dancing girls, and performing monkeys! No?, …

EEVblog #88 – There’s More To Electronics Than Just Circuit Design

Drive time rant. Dave talks about how circuit design and prototyping can often come last in the design process. And talk on the upcoming live EEVblog show. Podcast: DownloadPodcast (podcast2): Download

EEVblog #87 – Let’s hop on the Electronics Design Merry-Go-Round

Dave demonstrates how much fussing around can be involved in selecting just a couple of cost optimised parts for a new design, using Digikey, Mouser, FindChips, Octopart and Atmel websites. Podcast: Download

EEVblog Viewer Poll

Just a quick poll to gauge the electronics knowledge and industry experience of the EEVblog audience. This is important for the blog and potential industry support. 1 question, 10 options, easy peasy, thanks! http://www.polljunkie.com/mA7P5o/Poll7579.aspx See the responses HERE UPDATE: The previous SurveyMonkey forum spat the dummy at 100 responses, so …

EEVblog #86 – Buy a real Analog Oscilloscope PLEASE!

Dave is sick of getting emails asking if the cheap toy DSO’s and FPGA/PIC/AVR oscilloscope kits are worth buying. Guess his response… answers by telepathy please. Podcast: DownloadPodcast (podcast2): Download

Proof that Telstra Bigpond is Throttling Youtube Bandwidth in Australia?

Are Telstra (Bigpond), Australia’s largest Internet Service Provider deliberately throttling (capping) Youtube bandwidth on all of their plans? Try it yourself: https://www.youtube.com/my_speed My speed: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/MyTelstra.png Other Telstra customers: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Telstra1.png http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Telstra2.png http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Telstra3.png http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Telstra4.png Other ISP’s: Internode: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Internode.png Netspace: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Netspace.png Optus: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Optus.png TPG: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/TPG.png Exetel: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/exetel.png iiNet: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/iinet.png Podcast: Download

EEVblog #85 – High Voltage Oscilloscope Probe Design

Doug Ford shows us how he designed his own 1000:1 high voltage oscilloscope probe. http://www.dfad.com.au and the Oscilloscope probe tutorial: http://dfad.com.au/links/THE%20SECRET%20WORLD%20OF%20PROBES%20OCt09.pdf Podcast: Download

OT: I need data!

Please excuse the OT post, but I need a favour from my Australian viewers. Can you go to www.youtube.com/my_speed and email me a screen capture (PNG is best) of what you get and also (importantly) let me know which ISP you are using. Telstra are screwing me and throttling my …

EEVblog #84 – High Energy Multimeter Destruction

Let’s destroy some multimeters and shoot some metal with Doug’s high energy 4KV capacitor discharge unit. Visit Doug at www.dfad.com.au Podcast: Download

EEVblog #83 – Do you suck at Hardware or Software?

Drive time rant. Hardware vs Software, which one do you suck at? Podcast: DownloadPodcast (podcast2): Download

EEVblog #82 – 10th Anniversary of GPS & Geocaching thanks to Bill Clinton

On May 1st 2000 Bill Clinton turned off Selective Availability on the GPS system and commercial GPS as we know and appreciate it now was born. A truly red letter day. On May 3rd 2000 Dave Ulmer placed the 1st Geocache or “Geo Stash” and Geocaching was born. Tupperware was …