How to convert a dumpster Sony CRT TV into a retro computer RGB monitor. Going through the design considerations, schematics, datasheets and the “jungle chip” and how to feed in the RGB signal and switch it. Also a look at the the old school CGA video interface on an IBM …
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Can you find the fault in the IBM PCjr wireless keyboard before Dave does? A most excellent adventure in troubleshooting. Forum HERE Podcast: Download
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More Mailbag! Forum HERE SPOILERS: Mailbag SPAM! Arizona If it smells like chicken, you’re holding it wrong. 2:57 https://www.tympan.org Open source hardware audio hearing development system. 11:20 Circuit Scribe conductive ink learning kit https://www.circuitscribe.com/ 24:20 Sony RM-440 video editing unit teardown 30:42 Pulse Sensor https://www.pulsesensor.com 31:36 DIY Mouse Kit https://github.com/biomurph/Mouse …
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Repair and teardown of a Sony CFD-V10 portable stereo boombox Service manual Forum HERE Podcast: Download
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Part 2 of the power-up counter project, investigating the Sharp Memory LCD & custom LCD’s + microcontroller (MSP430 + ST ARM + Microchip) low power design with supercaps, SMD ceramic batteries, and coin cells. Forum HERE Podcast: Download
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Looking for a segmented e-ink / e-paper display solution for a power up display counter module project. Forum HERE Podcast: Download
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Go back in time to 1980 and a look at what consumer electronics and parts were available from Tandy in the UK. 1980’s Tandy Voice Recognition Chip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFth9K_IvwA Dick Smith’s new channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80seR-2BPyk Forum HERE Podcast: Download
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More Mailbag! Forum HERE SPOILERS: Dodgy Plugpack Teardown & Discussion 9:40 eSATA cage thingo teardown 11:47 Ford Car Stereo teardown 18:34 Back To The Future Delorean Time Circuits https://www.marmosetelectronics.com/time-circuits-clock/time-circuits-clock-the-control-board/ 23:39 E-con Systems USB3 Camera Module: https://www.e-consystems.com/usb-cameras/full-hd-low-light-usb-camera-with-stereo-mic.asp Podcast: Download
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You think a $2 multimeter is bad? A review of the Kickstarter & Indiegogo Vion bluetooth multimeter that promised the world. Grab your popcorn for a master class in idiotic product design. The world’s worst multimeter. The original thread Forum HERE Podcast: Download
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Old school, they don’t make’em like this any more. Teardown of the HP 3785A Jitter Generator & Receiver with beautiful HP bubble LED displays. Forum HERE Podcast: Download
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You never go full Brusaw! Germany has it’s own Solar Freakn’ Roadways trial, guess the results… Forum HERE Podcast: Download
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Most modern DSO’s don’t have Alternate Triggering, but Dave shows you how to do it anyway! This allows you to trigger on and view and anaylse two otherwise asynchronous time un-correlated signals on the screen at once. Also a look at Dual Time Base oscilloscopes. Oscilloscope Tutorial Video Playlist Forum …
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It just never ends! Two days after I posted my last solar roadways video, details and photos emerge of another two recent epic failures of the new SolaRoad installations in the Netherlands. A trial with buses and trucks results in failures within a week and cancellation of the project. Now …
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The inevitable demise of Solar Roadways in France, China, and the Netherlands. But Solar Freak’n Roadways won’t go down without a fight!, not that it was ever in the ring, apart from starting this whole boondoggle concept. Forum HERE Podcast: Download
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A look at the KISS-488 GPIB to Ethernet adapter that lets you add a web based user interface, HPGL plotter emulator, and Telnet interface to old instruments with a GPIB interface. And you might even get some extra resolution out of those old instruments too! GPIB Telnet Data logger program …
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