The Lily Drone company has folded, admitted defeat, and will not deliver after 3 years, $30M in pre-sales plus $15M in VC funding.
What a spectacular FAIL!
https://www.lily.camera/adventure-comes-end/
IMPORTANT:
This video clearly falls under the category of "Nominative use" a.k.a "Trademark Fair Use" under the (1992) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
There is no other way to report the news without using the company name. And there was no suggestion of endorsement
or sponsorship.
UPDATE: Lawsuit from the District Attorney:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/12/sf-district-attorney-lawsuit-against-lily-may-have-prompted-refund/
And refunds might not happen, they owe the bank:
https://www.suasnews.com/2017/01/the-people-vs-lily-robotics/
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Dave goes through the final base schematic for his Open Hardware lab power supply design.
Schematic is here:
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Dave takes you step-by-step through his video editing, rendering, and transcoding process for an EEVblog video using Sony Vegas / MovieStudio & Handbrake x264.
Note this is NOT a tutorial, it's a mostly live walkthrough of editing an actual EEVblog video, so lots of waffle.
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Monster 45min Mailbag!
Get the 555 Timer T-shirt
Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1013-mailbag/
SPOILERS:
The Current Source Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw0U6DtO0PHb3l37eKEAdSg
Analog meters + VTVM's + Dave's first multimeter.
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Brady label maker teardown
SushiBits M193v2 Arduino PCB
2DW233 Voltage Reference Zener
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Fitbit Teardown
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University of Bristol UB20M Zero Power Standby chip
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/em/research/zero-standby-power/
Silego Reset IC: http://www.silego.com/applications/reset-ic.html
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Amazing mailbag dumpster find!
Boards for particle accelerator testing at CERN and Fermilab found in a dumpster at the The Svedberg Laboratory in Sweden:
http://www.tsl.uu.se/
Designed by Lecroy!
Also a look at FASTBUS, VME, CAMAC modular crate electronics.
Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-994-cernfermilab-particle-accelerator-boards/
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:
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Bristol University have a neat new "zero power sensing" chip that takes energy harvested signals and switches an open drain output, the UB20M Voltage Detector.
But the marketing has gone too far when they demo a TV that supposedly has zero standby power. Dave busts this smoke and mirrors demo.
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/em/research/zero-standby-power/
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Datasheet: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/engineering/research/eem-group/zero-standby/UB20M_Datasheet_Rev.1.2.pdf
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Dave proposes a new feature that could both bring in revenue for Youtube and also provide a valuable service for content producers.
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Dave explains how BJT and MOSFET transistors work at the silicon chip level.
How does a BJT transistor actually amplify current?
P and N type doping, charge carriers, conduction channel, field effect, holes and electrons, all the other good stuff.
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