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Dave exposes the global White Van Speaker Scam and tears down a Marc Vincent Surround Sound Receiver, one of the items sold in Australia through this scam. How crap is it?, watch and find out! Also a 3D Optics HD-8500 projector that is also sold as part of the scam …

A followup on the FLIR TG165 Visual Thermometer / Thermal Camera teardown. A look at the micro-shutter and some thermal chamber experiments and scope measurements on the SPI data from the Lepton sensor used. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

What’s inside the new FLIR TG165 Visual IR Thermometer / Thermal Camera using the new Lepton sensor? How does it compare to the FLIR ONE & FLIR E4? Does it have a calibration shutter? Does it have any extra capability built in ready to be hacked? How easy is it …

Help beat Congenital Muscular Dystrophy with their Pozible campaign (Pozible campaign live tomorrow) A look at the FLIR TG-165 visual spot thermometer and (unfair) comparison with the FLIR E8 thermal camera. High density Mitra 125 16KB magnetic core ferrite memory from the 1970’s Eric LPRS low power radio modules Forum …

Dave shows how to upgrade an Agilent/Keysight 6643A/6642A/6641A system dc power supply to have front panel binding posts. Sense lines are added to improve the high current accuracy. Operation Manual HERE Service Manual + Schematic HERE Auction Score video HERE Forum HERE Podcast: Download

I’m a full time Youtube content producer, and I like responding to comments, it’s a way for me to directly interact with my audience. It’s an important thing for a content producer to be able to do. Nay, essential. To say thanks, answer a question, respond to criticism, correct something, …

Teardown Tuesday. Inside a Polar Wearlink chest strap fitness heart rate monitor monitor transmitter. Also a look at and some attempted decoding of the signal with the Tektronix MDO3000 oscilloscope. Polar RMCM-01 Receiver Module Datasheet Forum HERE Podcast: Download

I have been made aware of this Australian government requested report on crowd sourced equity funding, and associated suggested legislative framework to promote it. Original DOC file is HERE PDF version HERE I have not digested the 244 pages of it yet!

Dave plays around with an energy harvesting kit to see how much power he can get out of a Peltier device used as a Seeback effect module to generate power from temperature differentials. Bonus white board tutorial on how Peltier devices work as heat pumps. Wuerth Elektronik Energy Harvesting Kit …

Dave test drives one of the first right hand drive Tesla Model S cars in Australia before they are delivered to customers.

Meet Rod Elliott the man behind the famous sound.westhost.com audio electronics website. Audio aficionados will no doubt be familiar with Rod’s hundred of articles and projects. He dropped by the EEVblog stand at Electronex and kindly agreed to a quick impromptu chat on-camera.

A very brief look at the new WENS 540 Debug Meter with Charles from Trio Test at the Electronex show stand: This is NOT a review, or my normal blog content, it’s just a quick look because some people may be interested in it. So please, no silly complaints. Forum …

Teardown Tuesday Inside a 1973 vintage programmable scientific desktop calculator. The P2102 is a 1K x 1 bit SRAM, so looks like a 4 bit processor architecture. Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-663-compucorp-322g-calculator-teardown/ Teardown photos: Podcast: Download

In this tutorial Dave demonstrates the seldom used and often little understood mathematical integration function available on your modern digital oscilloscope. And demonstrates a practical example use for it in accurately measuring the total power consumption of a microcontroller that sleeps and then wakes up and does some processing before …

Dave walks around the Electronex 2014 electronics exhibition at the Australian Technology Park, after hours when no one is there, and takes a peek at every stand. Done in a single take. PLEASE don’t comment that this video gives you motion sickness, it’s just pointless. If you don’t like hand …