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Dave transformed his boring Youtube Silver Play Button Award into a cool retro nixie tube live subscription counter! The final video in a 7 part series on this construction project Playlist And some amazing Youtube statistics. Forum HERE

In the last 4 years my channel ranking has dropped in half, and I LOVE IT!

Bill Nye is plugging Rayton Solar, a startup that claims to be able to reduce the manufacturing cost of solar power modules by 60%. Is it real? They have already raised $3.5M in equity crowd funding.

How to connect and use the low cost ESP8266 WiFi module with the Arduino environment. How to connect with a Youtube API to retrieve channel statistics, using JSON on the Wemos D1 Mini. Nixie Tube Project Part 7 Forum HERE

Soldering the Nixie Tube display PCB. How to do drag and dab soldering to make surface mount parts soldering easy. Also a look at the Elecrow blank prototype PCB quality. Jump to 3:36 for the soldering tutorial Part 6 of the Nixie Tube project Forum HERE

What does the CE mark on a product actually mean? How do you get one? What is it NOT? What is a Declaration Of Conformity? There might more to this mark than you realised! The FCC mark is also discussed. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Dave shows how to do power supply MOSFET rail switching and demonstrates and discusses why supply sequencing might be needed. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Amazing mailbag dumpster find! Boards for particle accelerator testing at CERN and Fermilab found in a dumpster at the The Svedberg Laboratory in Sweden: Designed by Lecroy! Also a look at FASTBUS, VME, CAMAC modular crate electronics. Forum HERE LINKS: http://teledynelecroy.com/lrs/dsheets/1881m.htm http://cdn.teledynelecroy.com/files/manuals/1872aman.pdf http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/673198/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:23031694 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wDnUBwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA927&dq=lecroy%20mtd132&pg=PA927#v=onepage&q=lecroy%20mtd132&f=false Thanks to Uwe Zimmermann

More mailbag! More teardowns! Forum HERE SPOILERS: Tekbox TBLC08 CISPR16 Line Impedance Stabilization Network (LISN) for the measurement of mains line-conducted interference RF Telemetry Transmitter teardown Telecoms line PCB’s from the 1980’s and 1990’s Gridseed G-Blade Scrypt cryptocurrency miner Rogaine video advertisement hardware teardown Podcast: Download

Servicing and cleaning the Olympus BHM microscope and 3D printing a Cree LED replacement Podcast: Download

Unboxing an ebay Olympus BHM wafer inspection metallurgical microscope. Did it survive the atrocious ebay packaging? Will a custom Cree LED light replacement work? Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Bumper Mailbag! Forum HERE SPOILERS: Infinity PV Organic flexible Solar Cells Flexible Solar Charger Organic Solar Cells Datasheet Raspberry Pi To DEO nano Converter HP 48G Destructive Calculator Teardown Digilent Digital Discovery Logic Analyser & Protocol Generator German Tool Reviews Channel Philips PM2718 multimeter teardown Micronta Digital Multimeter Teardown Hakko …

A walk though of taking the Nixie Tube project PCB from desing to manufacture. DRC checking, gerber generation, NC drill file, generation, and finding a PCB manufacturer. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Teardown of the new FLIR ETS320 Benchtop Thermal Camera Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Review of the new FLIR ETS320 Benchtop Thermal Imaging Camera designed for electronics and PCB use. Forum HERE Podcast: Download