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Dominic from the OpenROV project shows off their open source underwater robotic vehicle kit. At the Sydney Maker Faire 2013

The Sydney Robot Workshop show off their screen accurate R2-D2 robot at the Sydney Maker Faire 2013

Dave tests to see if the chips in a 1960’s Apollo LVDC Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer still work. Fran Blanche LVDC info and videos The Dinosaur Den http://fran-n-bil.com/ Forum HERE Podcast: Download

I answered some questions for Hackaday Here is the video response:

What’s inside one of those omni-directional laser barcode scanner you use at the supermarket, and how does it work? Motorola / Symbol LS9208 Datasheets: Reflective Interrupter Atmel ARM7 Thumb H8S Processor Podcast: Download

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Dave checks out several FPGA demo boards, and tries out the DE0 Nano and Altera Quartus II software. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

How easy are FPGA’s to hook up and use use compared to traditional microcontrollers? A brief explanation of why FPGA are a lot more complicated to setup and get working that microcontrollers. A short video linking to several other FGPA videos. NOTE: This is very old footage that was meant …

Teardown Tuesday. 3 classic analog multimeters: Metrawatt Unigor A43 Triplett 630NA Simpson 260 XLP Forum HERE Podcast: Download

The Ben Heck Show Speak’N’DaveJones Don’t forget the Hack-A-Day Prize Go to Space! Tektronix MDO3000 swag Indiegogo Campaign Very Serious USB Button Metrawatt Analog Multimeter Unigor A43 Geppetto Electronics Hydra J1772 Electric Vehicle Charging Station Kevex 2003 Scanning Electron Microscope Preamplifier & Pulse Processor 4D System uLCD Showview Video Recorder …

Dave debunks the Solar Roadways project that generated over $2.1M on Indiegogo, as well as almost another million dollars in US government funding. In this video Dave does the solar generation calculations to see if this system is viable from an energy generation viewpoint, and also how much power the …

I’m sick of the old WordPress comment system. It’s hopeless, and there is now way too much spam. So I have just installed the Disqus plugin that will hopefully be much better. You’ll be able to log into the comment using any existing social media account you have, and it …

How to repair a Soniq L32V12A 32″ HD LCD TV Dave fixes this one in the nick of time, just before his mum was going to ask” where is my TV?!” Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Dave troubleshoots a Soniq L32V12A 32″ HD LCD TV Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Part 7 of Microphone Technology with Doug Ford, former head designer at Rode Microphones. This video Doug takes you through the design of the Rode NT3 and NT1000 microphone designs. There is a ton of stuff in here: Closed loop unity gain JFET and bipolar follow circuits. Bootstrapping out miller …