EEVblog #914 - Sony VAIO UX Micro PC TeardownEEVblog2016-08-24 | Teardown of the vintage Sony VAIO UX Series Handheld Micro PC using the Intel Core Solo processor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Vaio_UX_Micro_PC
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00:00 - Kathy Loves Physics 02:45 - Philo Farnsworth, the farmboy who invented television 10:00 - Professor Julius Plucker & Heinrich Ruhmkorff 11:13 - Heinrich Geissler and Geissler tubes 14:28 - Johann Wilhelm Hittorf 16:15 - William Crookes and the Crookes Radiometer 20:00 - Heinrich Hertz 25:00 - Scintillating Scotoma 27:00 - Philipp Lenard 31:25 - Wilhelm Rontgen 38:45 - Mihajlo Pupin 44:00 - Francis Perrin 49:10 - Henri Becquerel 55:39 - Curie Piezoelectric Quartz Balance Electrometer 1:07:46 - Philco & Bob Pease 1:08:44 - Vladimir Zworykin 1:15:12 - Free Energy & Debunking
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And when challeged by a solar cell researcher from the University of Freiburg on the claims of 80% reflectance and why they don't independently test, there is a hirarious word salad response! borchertlab.com/juliane
00:00 - Another Dodgy Crowd Funder 01:00 - £560,000 UK Government Innovation Grant! 01:42 - Let's watch the video! 06:22 - How it works 06:58 - We can beat the Shockley Queisser Limit! 09:17 - $2BN valuation! 09:28 - The prototypes 10:15 - How they screwed up 12:06 - Reflective coatings and solar panel efficiency tradeoff 13:26 - Some actual reflection measurements using reflectance spectroscopy 15:18 - There ain't no free lunch. The claims are BS 16:52 - The reflection/absorption efficiency tradeoff 17:54 - Let's see what else they have developed at Yellow Studio! 19:21 - Electon Spin Battery Charging using magnetic forces! 19:55 - Solar Electromagnetic Energy Power Battery System using liquid nitrogen! 21:11 - Their other Kickstarter projects 24:14 - Hilarious word salad response to a solar cell researcher calling them out! 28:49 - Conclusion
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00:00 - A $42 Fluke? 00:43 - Made in China, and the infamous Fluke 19 01:27 - Fluke 101 vs 106 vs 107 02:00 - Comaprison with ANENG AN8008 03:03 - The display vs the AvE Hammer 03:53 - The range switch 04:12 - The battery compartment and TL75 probe leads 06:09 - What are you buying here? 08:08 - Diode and capacitance test 09:33 - The biggest disappointment, no AutoHold 10:55 - 1200V overload test and accuracy testing 12:41 - Common mode conducted mode RFI test 13:10 - Drop testing 13:38 - Power on options 14:08 - Calibration seal and port 14:30 - Teardown 20:26 - A pocket multimeter? 21:51 - Battery life, power consumption measurements, and lithium battery test 42:09 - Conclusion
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00:00 - This is NOT a regular quadrature rotary encoder! 02:08 - Tool Tip, Pin Vice 05:41 - EDC tool shootout, Victorinox MiniChamp vs Gerber Dime vs Olight Otacle 06:34 - We're in like Flynn! 07:13 - New Lab Jack for the Tagarno microscope 08:09 - Of course that's how it works 09:59 - Why is this not used more often? 12:29 - How it works 14:49 - Is there another example of this type of encoder? if not, why not?
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00:00 - Haefely Trench PESD1600 16kV ESD gun 02:09 - The Onyx16. These things aren't cheap... 02:33 - DIY ESD Gun 03:00 - Teardown 04:08 - Probe tips 05:06 - Inside 05:46 - High voltage relay and pulse shape 07:19 - Front panel PCB and ANNOYING construction 08:09 - NiMH battery pack 09:35 - Did I mention the ANNOYING construction? 13:16 - It's OUT! 14:36 - Main PCB soldering 16:56 - This rotary encoder looks SPECIAL 18:13 - Testing the rotary encoder 20:27 - Are you sure I didn't mention the ANNOYING construction? 21:25 - The special snowflake rotary encoder is OUT 25:52 - HELP! Can you identify this rotary encoder?
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00:00 - Berlin Gigafactor train opening fanfare goes viral 01:19 - Could this diesel train have been a Battery Electric Train? (BEMU) 03:20 - Surely Telsa thought of it? 03:57 - The Bombardier Talent diesel electric train from 2006 05:29 - Video of the opening day 06:50 - DJ Bongo Bongo: The Energy Master! 07:08 - Are battery electric trains a thing? Yes. 09:38 - Battery pack and comparison to EV's. CORRECTION: The IONIQ is 0.1kwh/km 10:43 - The Tesla Berlin Gigafactory 12:17 - The railway line 14:38 - Calculations for a battery electric train 15:37 - Solar generation calculations 17:24 - Not quite, but maybe on a good day... 18:30 - Charging 20:01 - Is a Battery Electrinic Train viable here? Yes, absolutely.
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00:00 - A wireless ESD monitor? The IONA Tech StatIQ Band 02:06 - The Electric Field Mill sensor 03:27 - The Android app, and does it actually work? 06:15 - ESD ground impedance correlation 07:21 - What's going on with the clean room bunny suit? 08:12 - Well, there's your problem... 08:35 - Let's try a WORKING ESD coat this time 09:23 - But is it just smoke and mirrors? Surface DC Voltmeter measurement time 11:30 - Validatd 11:52 - Calibration 12:15 - How it works 15:24 - The physics 18:09 - Conclusion
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00:00 - History of game changing Rigol Oscilloscopes 03:27 - All the DHO1000 and DHO4000 goodness 05:14 - Compared to the DS1054Z 05:52 - The DHO900 06:38 - Unboxing 07:07 - Liteon USB-C PSU 07:30 - It's TINY! 08:42 - VESA mount & Fan Noise 09:08 - HMDI, touch screen, and mouse 10:41 - USB-C physical connection 11:25 - External battery power 11:45 - The couch feet 12:01 - The boot time is not great 12:10 - Micro SD card Android O/S 12:36 - 7" Capacitive touch screen 13:36 - The LED's aren't great 13:52 - Knobs 14:32 - The SMELL 15:01 - Sample rate and memory depth QUIRK 16:34 - A wasted button, and the Rigol Menu 17:13 - Measurements 18:11 - Trigger capability 18:36 - Vertical menu system 19:51 - It's basically a $299 DHO4000 20:23 - DS1054Z size comparison 21:54 - Built down to a price 22:29 - 12 bit is great, but why not Eres? 22:57 - Waveform update rate TESTED 24:49 - It does drop 25:09 - And it's impressive again 25:45 - Waveform window organisation 26:52 - Alias test 27:05 - The FFT waveform updating is impressive 28:04 - Peaks would be nice 28:16 - Can I have snappy cursors please 28:48 - A little bit annoying 29:01 - 12 bit FFT test FAIL 32:01 - FFT noise floor 32:15 - Siglent 1104X-E FFT and R&S MXO4 FFT comparison 33:17 - The pulse response TESTED 33:45 - Front end noise TESTED 35:12 - Input microphonics TESTED 35:27 - Here's the money shot, the 12bit ADC resolution 36:22 - Vertical range BUG 37:19 - QUICK button and screen capture 38:22 - Date and Time is overrated 38:42 - RECORD mode, waterfall, mosaic, adjacent and perspective displays 43:00 - DVM 44:05 - Windows 44:53 - UART Serial decoder 46:27 - CRASH! 47:38 - SPI bus decoding 47:56 - Input Floating and Ground Connection 48:42 - Does the 12 bit give you more dynamic range? 49:31 - Display BUG or QUIRK? 50:10 - The DS1054Z Help system is still better 51:25 - Remote LXI LAN TESTED 53:47 - The probes are AWESOME! - Shootout with Siglent 56:49 - Conclusion
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00:00 - A tour of the UNSW electronic lab with Torsten Lehmann 02:57 - Why they chose the R&S RTB2000 oscilloscope 03:49 - Remotely interactive demo boards 04:52 - Does university teach practical skills any more? 08:41 - For the Siglent fanboys 10:50 - Soldering station 12:16 - Practical projects 15:13 - Thesis and learning to play an instrument analogy 16:39 - The 400kV High Voltage Lab 17:22 - Power systems laboratory 18:33 - Power electronics and drives laboratory 19:42 - Maker Space
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00:00 - Faulty Agilent / Keysight U1273AX OLED display multimeter 01:36 - Battery leakage, OF COURSE! 04:26 - Bottom of PCB 05:47 - The OLED display 10:09 - Annoying voltage measurements 15:14 - At great expense to management, a new OLED 18:18 - Winner Winner Premature Dinner 20:19 - The Repair is over, right? RIGHT? 21:22 - Accuracy fault. Repair time again. 25:23 - Hybrid Thin Film Resistor Dividers 26:56 - Parallel contamination 29:44 - When in doubt, suck it off
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00:00 - Rigol's NEW $389 DHO800 12 bit Oscilloscope! 02:43 - USB-C Powered 03:19 - Teardown of the Small Sparrow, and the DHO900 06:39 - Heatsink Removed and cost reduction 08:01 - Is the USB-C connector robust enough? 11:25 - Plastic moulding 12:13 - Back side of PCB 12:48 - PCB Comparison with HDO1000 13:56 - The ADC 15:13 - What is the missing memory? 15:42 - BOM cost INCREASE? Why? 16:40 - Bypass caps WTF. Madman Muntz is turning in his grave! 17:42 - Front end comparison with DHO1000 and HDO4000 20:00 - The Logic Analyser 21:15 - The Arbitrary Waveform Generator option in the DHO900 22:39 - PCB summary, and Dave doesn't allow this type of production engineering! 22:31 - Serial boot dumping 25:56 - The boot Android O/S micro SD card 27:15 - Power consumption and summary
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00:00 - The final prototype µSupply, it's been a while! 01:36 - It's actually a working product 02:50 - The story of why it wasn't released 03:34 - Teardown 05:33 - Old prototype 07:04 - Multiple processors and USB Power Delivery 08:03 - Evolution of the Banana Jacks 08:50 - Old vs New Prototype 10:11 - The LCD is gorgeous 11:36 - The Schematic 12:34 - The secondary side ST ARM micro 13:22 - Altium and Modular Electronics RANT 15:43 - The Primary Side ST ARM Micro and the USB Power Delivery RANT 19:00 - UART isolation 19:44 - Main isolated switching conveter with custom Planar Transformer 20:33 - Some old prototype concept renders 21:41 - Choose Your Fighter! Keypad vs Up/Down Interface 24:14 - Custom Planar Transformer 25:47 - Tracking Switching Pre-Regulator 27:16 - Not Recommended For New Design 28:03 - Output Constant Voltage and Constant Current Regulation Circuit 31:59 - µSupply history and Leo Simpson Silicon Chip story 34:18 - The PCB 36:19 - Conclusion
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00:00 - Twitter question: How should I design a PCB trace to carry 80A of current 01:09 - Ohms law and copper losses 02:06 - PCB Trace calculator 02:45 - The three (four) major factors to PCB current handling calculations 02:54 - Trace Width and Copper thickness (weight) and PCB stackups 04:18 - A trap with Multilayer PCB designs 05:20 - External vs Internal layer matters with thermal design 06:20 - What happens if you exceed the maximum current rating? 07:23 - PCB plating matters 08:12 - Electrical vs Thermal design considerations 09:30 - 1oz copper vs 2oz vs 4oz 10:35 - Solder and tin plated traces 11:37 - Let's look at what a PCB manufacturer offers, HASL, SMOBC, ENIG etc 12:46 - How do you get your PCB traces plated in your design? 14:31 - Those are rookie temperature numbers, you gotta pump those up! 14:51 - The IPC 2152 and IPC 2221 standards are a bit How'ya'Doing 16:30 - The physical and thermal part of your product design matters 16:47 - Thermal conduction to planes matters 19:30 - Does VIA stiching matter? 20:30 - Have you considered a Bus Bar? 21:56 - We can get 80A on a single PCB trace, BUT... 23:18 - Can I interest you in bodge wire Sir? It's complete legit. 24:17 - PCB Standard WARS! 26:19 - Forget about etch factor 27:08 - Internal vs External trace calculations
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00:00 - Mailbag 00:42 - PocketFrog USB Lab in your pocket 22:40 - Omnifixo OF-M4 Magnetic PCB Holder 28:32 - NASA Artemis 1 Red Crew - Billy Cairns 30:36 - Caberqu C2C USB-C Cable Tester 39:30 - Rocket Rocket-Operation Computing Kit (Rockit) 42:44 - RIFA Capacitor FAIL
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00:00 - Micsig SigOFIT Optical Fibre Probe vs Active FET 02:25 - High Voltage Differential Limitation and why you might need an Optical Fibre probe 03:25 - Galvanically isolated, and power-over-fibre 04:39 - Comparison with the Tek IsoVu & Lecroy DL-ISO 05:55 - The CMRR is AMAZING! 07:15 - A look at the SigOFIT probe 10:04 - An optical fibre probe is NOT a high voltage differential probe! 10:40 - Practical example using a 600V Gallium Nitride GaN circuit demo 11:39 - What is a Gallium Nitride (GaN) Transistor? 13:23 - GaN / HEMT, and Silicon Carbide SiC Transistors 14:21 - IGOT60R070D1 600V GaN datasheet & Half Bridge switching configuration 15:30 - This is IMPOSSIBLE with a regular probe! 19:07 - GaN EiceDRIVER chip 19:54 - The practical GaN test setup 23:10 - Remote MXO4 scope control to take measurements 24:36 - High side GaN power transistor measurement with the SigOFIT 26:26 - Here is where the CMRR MAGIC happens! 27:41 - Comparison with HVP-70 High Voltage Differential Probe 28:45 - Look how the High Voltage Differential Probe is just horrible here! 31:56 - Baseline High Voltage Differential probe ringing vs SigOFIT 32:21 - Noise measurement 36:27 - Conclusion
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00:00 - This LK-99 ambient temperature & pressure superconductor is going to CHANGE THE WORLD! 02:52 - Low but not zero resistance? I thought this was a superconductor? 04:22 - Some journalists are actually doing their job this time 06:28 - The Meissner effect 07:11- Thunderf00t's take 08:06 - This demo video is just a total embarrassment! It's just Lenz's Law! 10:36 - Let's reproduce the demo video experiment!
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00:00 - What is an AutoRefractor Keratometer? 03:41 - Don't try this at home kids! Can Dave measure his eyeball? 06:17 - Teardown 08:14 - Pupil distance measurement 09:43 - Should have read the manual... 11:22 - How the Keratometer mire circle is generated 13:42 - Optical path and lenses 15:47 - The camera 16:53 - Fine auto-focus mechanism 18:22 - Main PCB
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00:00 - Unboxing the new Digilent Analog Discovery 3 02:23 - New features 05:00 - The price and comparison with a benchtop scope 06:19 - Teardown and comparison with Analog Discovery 2 10:18 - Nice design touches digilent.com/blog/whats-different-with-the-analog-discovery-3 12:01 - In operation using the Waveforms software 14:04 - Different product support and modes 16:25 - Highest resolution possible 18:12 - Lets feed it up it's own clacker... 21:30 - Check THIS out! 23:30 - The Help system 24:51 - The Power Supply 27:08 - I can't possibly demo all the features. Spectrograms, Persistence, Eye Diagrams, Histrogram, FFT's 28:04 - OMG you can ramp and modulate the Power Suppply! Let's try this... 32:24 - It's useful, but not universally useful. 32:22 - The timebase scale is kinda annoying 34:41 - Adding NOISE to the PSU! 36:47 - Let's SHORT this sucker... 38:49 - Have you tried turning it off and on again? 39:55 - Is this a bug? 40:49 - Dumb arse Dave 42:05 - Measurements 43:57 - Check this out! 44:40 - FFT 45:33 - 3D spectrogram 48:49 - Conclusion
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00:00 - Mailbag 00:31 - Grid Studio Teardown artwork 06:06 - Fnirsi bonanza 07:46 - USB Power monitors FNB58 and FNB48P 12:01 - The uSupply makes another appearance 16:29 - UltraOne Design Binding post to Banana post adapters 19:32 - Fnirsi S1 USB Rechargeable Multimeter
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Dave does something no one else has done before - compare the original Apollo 17 16mm ascent camera footage to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) photos. Will footage from 40 years apart match up to confirm the moon landing?
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00:00 - The Moon Landing HOAX 00:27 - Apollo 17 ascent footage 02:05 - The little known 17mm film footage 03:02 - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photos 03:35 - Can we match 40 year old film footage to current LRO photos? 05:47 - Take THAT! 07:51 - Gene Cernan 09:02 - The NVIDIA simulation photo proof
T-Shirts: http://teespring.com/stores/eevblog #moon #conspiracy #bustedEEVacademy | Digital Design Series Part 5 - Karnaugh MapsEEVblog2023-06-12 | Digital logic circuit simplification using Karnaugh Maps. How to use a visual method to solve boolean algebraic equations and truth tables. Part 5 of the digital logic design tutorial series. Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvOlSehNtuHs2LwEdDwTp3n7mxb-MyBbo
00:00 - Part 5 of the digital logic design tutorial series 02:15 - Solving a logic truth table algebraically 04:17 - Verification of result By Inspection 06:27 - Maurice Karnaugh and drawing Karnaugh Maps 07:44 - The magic of Gray Code 08:51 - Mapping from Truth Table to Karnaugh Map 10:20 - The RULES for grouping 1's 14:21 - Solving the Karnaugh Map usign Sum of Products 17:19 - 4x4 Karnaugh Map 20:06 - There is more than one solution 22:23 - Another example with overlapping groups
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00:00 - Tour of the NASA Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex at Tidbinbilla 04:00 - Does the wind add any jitter? 04:29 - The new 34m Beam Waveguide Antennas 06:10 - The 400kW Klystron! 08:33 - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter tracking 10:34 - Upgrading Low Noise Amplifiers from Maser to MEMT 11:39 - LNA downconverters to 300MHz IF 12:14 - 1.1MW generator! 13:11 - How is this different to Parkes? 15:07 - Doppler shift 17:05 - Hydrogen Maser 18:00 - Why in a valley? 19:08 - Why worry about external RF? 20:09 - Transmit Mask 21:01 - The bearings 21:50 - Birds 22:29 - End of an Era for 70m dishes? 25:04 - Still the only game in town 26:15 - The original moon walk dish
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00:00 - Tour of the Canberra Deep Space Tracking Complex control room. 01:49 - Tracking Schedule 03:35 - Receiver system front end controls for Voyager 2 04:54 - Voyager 2 time reference 06:20 - Subcarrier and Symbols 07:02 - Multi Convolutional Decoder 07:57 - Spectrum Display 08:32 - Antenna controls, beam width and accuracy 10:43 - Signal path display 11:51 - Why doesn't the DSNnow signal level match the actual signal level?
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NOTE: This video is a re-release from the EEVblog Discover channel from 2017, to hopefully find a new audience.
00:00 - How do you contact the Voyager 2 space probe? 03:14 - Voyager ISN'T the lowest signal level! 06:29 - The Failed Capacitor and the Best Lock Frequency 09:00 - Transmit uplink power 10:00 - System noise temperature 10:30 - S and X band receivers 11:42 - Mars Reconnaissance Ordbiter and the Signal to Noise Ratio 12:39 - Maximum Transmit power is WHAT? 13:12 - The effects of weather 14:16 - Power supply and backups 15:29 - The roll of the Deep Space Network 16:50 - Mag Roll Calibration
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00:00 - Rohde & Schwarz MXO4 The world's fastest oscilloscope 00:55 - The handle doesn't cut the mustard these days 02:02 - The production flap 03:54 - ALL scopes should use this power connection! 04:32 - This is gorgeous, and it just gets better. 06:38 - Look at it! Look at it! 08:14 - RF goodness 08:35 - Dual 100MHz Arb generator 08:54 - Best probe interface solution ever 09:55 - The world's best low noise fan? 10:53 - Main PCB 13:17 - Inside the front end RF can 19:48 - The MXO4-EP ASIC 21:30 - External trigger system 22:43 - $3300 12bit ADC 23:29 - The $3400 Xilinx Zynq FPGA and applications processor. 26:08 - I'm now uploading videos natively on Twitter
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00:00 - Platio Solar Pavement in the Netherlands BUSTED! 02:15 - The launch day unveiling video 03:43 - The location in Groningen. Absolutely nowhere else for panels, LOL 05:41 - We've BUSTED Platio before! The Spanish installation. 06:41 - BUSTING the numbers with DaveCAD 11:17 - The numbers are just embarrassing! 12:58 - Embodied energy anyone? 14:45 - Anyone remember the Dutch Solaroad project? 16:03 - Solar Freakin Roadways UPDATE 17:29 - ANOTHER ONE in the Netherlands? SERIOUSLY? 18:55 - I was WRONG, it's worse, way worse.
T-Shirts: http://teespring.com/stores/eevblog #debunking #Platio #SolarTalking with Steve Sanghi. 31 years as CEO of MicrochipEEVblog2023-05-15 | Catching up with Steve Sanghi who was Microchip CEO for 31 years, now Executive Chair. Check out his new book, Up and to the Right. amzn.to/3M3DXFM How Microchip was built into one of the biggest and most pofitable chip companies in the world.
This is copied from The Amp Hour podcast, as it shuld be of great interest to EEVblog viewers. theamphour.com
In this episode we discussed:
The early microcontrollers, ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, FLASH. Semiconductor Fab's and locations. How the US Government CHIPS act is a golden handcuffs trap. US/China rhetoric. What really happened durign the covid supply chain crisis. How 90% of medical devices use Microchip parts. Lead times. Respect for the chip manufacturers and supply chains. Just-In-Time becomes Just-In-Case. How the Toyota production system works and how it had to change. The impacts of a potential war in Taiwan. How does it make sense to make thousands of part variants? The secret to making part varients. Why Microchip chose MIPS vs ARM. Atmel didn't make any money! Pricing discipline. How buying Atmel almost didn't happen, and how Dialog Semiconductor goofed it. Draconian NDA terms. Atmel was bloated. RISC-V plans. Customer Driven Obsolescence. Foundry vs In-House limitations. Open Source FPGA tools? Third party tool support. Why not offer free optimised compilers? It's all about black swan events, down cycles, pointy haired bosses, and how All your Cost Bases Beyong To Me. Hobbyist vs professionals. How Microchip is the largest aerospace chip maker in the world. Nothing leaves earth without a Microchip part in it. Radiation hardended parts. Market value profitability. Will Microchip ever get acquired. Strained US vs China relations.
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00:00 - The $30 Fnirsi HS-01 USB soldering iron 01:20 - The tips. Hakko T12? 02:54 - Sponge accident! 03:11 - This is a bit dodgy 04:08 - Soldering capacity tests 05:50 - Comparison with the Miniware TS-80P 07:49 - Anti-roll design
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00:00 - Failed Hantek 2000 handheld oscilloscope 02:08 - PCB location is your best clue 04:21 - Voltage regulator maybe? 06:01 - You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky? Well, do you, punk? 07:38 - Dialing in that google foo 08:20 - Winner Winner Chicken Dinner 09:54 - Test Pins 11:17 - Can you play spot the difference? 13:43 - Category Search
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00:00 - Zotek ZT702S Oscilloscope Multimeter unboxing 01:51 - Just STOP IT, ok! LOL 04:16- Teardown 08:31 - Oscilloscope front end and processor 11:43 - First turn on 14:53 - WTF! FAIL! 15:27 - The bargraph is hopeless 17:45 - The oscilloscope function 21:17 - USB drive mode and screen capture 23:01 - I can't screw the BNC in! 24:45 - Oscilloscope Overload issue 25:48 - Multimeter overload testing 26:34 - The battery life really sucks
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