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Installing a home energy monitoring and reporting system on Dave’s home solar power system. The 3G based wireless Connect 23 from Solar Analytics Designed & Manufactured by WattWatchers Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Dave reviews the 350MHz National Instruments VirtualBench combined 4 channel oscilloscope, logic analyser, arbitrary waveform generator, 5.5 digit multimeter, digital I/O, and power supply. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Inside the National Instruments NI VB-8034 Virtual Bench. A 350MHz 4 channel mixed signal oscilloscope, arbitrary waveform generator, power supply, and I/O module that can connect to the PC, tablet or phone via USB, WiFi, or Ethernet. Datasheets: Xilinx Kintex 7 ADC08D1520 ADC CRF Reed Relay High Speed OpAmp Podcast: …

105yo Ted Wale still builds FM bugs in his lab, and carves his own PCB’s (none of this etching rubbish!) Dave caught up with him in his backyard workshop in Cabramatta in Sydney. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Dave looks at possibly the world’s most dangerous consumer product, a portable electrode boiler based water heater available on ebay. Marketed as “safe”, it is nothing less than a death trap! EDIT: Holy crap! They sell this as a baby bath heater! Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Mailbag time! Forum HERE Death trap video HERE SPOILERS: Zifnu Rocket Kit on Kickstarter PAX Instrument T400 Temperature Logger Arris Cable Modem teardown Mail from Claire Standish Sinclair ZX81 Computer Teardown 3D Printed glow in the dark Delorean Garmin Fishfinder Teardown http://antdiy.blogspot.com.au Cheap Ebay $9 multimeter teardown Sharp EL-5810 pocket …

Dave shows you how to get the distributed computing platform BOINC and the SETI@Home project running on your Raspberry Pi. How many MIPS per Watt is the Raspberry Pi 2 compared to Dave’s dual processor Xeon machine? And the awesome Paul Horowitz Forum HERE Dave’s machines on SETI Download SETI@Home …

Join Dave as he laughs at the shonkiest product of 2016 The Z-Energeia energy saving wipes. Just wipe them on your mains fuse box and save up to 20% on your energy bill thanks to the Electron Vibration Alignment Field! Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Announcement for the live Keysight scope giveaway: TIME AND DATE

How may photons does a LED emit at very low currents? What is the lowest current where a LED will actually emit photons? Dave does some measurements to answer this quantum physics level stuff! Podcast: Download

Dave & Friends destroy a Keysight U1282A Multimeter. Is it really IP67 rated & can withstand a 3m drop? Only one way to find out, take it canyoning, then drop it, throw it from a moving car, run over it, and then drop it some more until it breaks! Kate’s …

About a week left on the Keysight 6GHz scope giveaway. A lot of people have been concerned that these scopes were not going to “worthy” winners who can really use them, even more so the big daddy 6GHz version. In which case I like the entry from Carlos A, check …

Can Dave find the first mention of TTL chips, on the 50th anniversary of TTL? Some old resurrected footage and a segment idea from July 2014, Welcome to Wayback Wednesday, were Dave looks though his old Electronics Australia magazine collection. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Is this wierd thing a slice of Dave’s Brain? Find out in today’s Mailbag Forum HERE SPOILERS: A silicon wafer bonanza! Hires photos of wafers A temperature sensing plasma etching wafer http://www.diychristmas.org Bullshit Bingo Model car controller A very expensive single photon counter teardown and some experimentation. Random cheapo Chinese …

Dave shows you an interesting ionic resistance phenomenon that lets you increase the battery capacity in typical Alkaline AA and AAA cells. Forum HERE Ionic resistance video Batteriser Monkey Busted Video Podcast: Download