Old school mailbag.
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00:00 - Old School Mailbag
01:09 - TOASTY Quadcopter ESC
08:07 - The best XMAS Tree LED light yet
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11:26 - Kaiweets ST600Y Multimeter
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16:00 - UK Radio Teleswitch
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Peter Daly, metrologist at Agilents world leading standards & calibration laboratory in Melbourne explains what calibration is.
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Check out the amazing increased working distance on the Eakins microscope using a barlow lens to get a larger working area.
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What's inside a Jawbone UP Pedometer?
http://content.jawbone.com/static/www/pdf/manuals/up/up-by-jawbone-extended-manual-en.pdf
MSP430F5548: http://www.ti.com/product/msp430f5528
BQ24230: http://www.ti.com/product/bq24230
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Using the Agilent 90000 series 13GHz oscilloscope and 12GHz differential probe to measure a USB 3.0 Super Speed signal.
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Dave tests out his newly installed 8M/8M symmetrical VDSL2 internet connection in the EEVblog lab.
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And rants about how the Australian NBN is not in any major business parks.
And for those that don't believe that Telstra charge $8000/month for 10M/10M business Ethernet connection, here you go:
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Double 13 is worse than normal 13, obviously. More mailbag.
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SPOILERS:
Back in the old lab!
Vintage Soviet Union PC.
10:42 3G modem with a funky antenna.
13:52 IOMEGA ZIP drive teardown
18:56 USB to RS485 interface
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19:52 Another Byte magazine cover!
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21:41 Smoke alarm sensor teardowns
26:58 Reverse engineering a Cooler Master PSU
34:45 $1 ebay power adapter teardown gets Widlarized!
38:39 Stonetech smart integrated LCD module
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Dave looks at some issues with fanning out tiny 0.4mm pitch BGA packages, via pad and hole size, tenting, breakouts, solder mask expansion etc.
And then compares it with an 1136 pin Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGA with 1mm pitch to show the difference in PCB process technologies needed.
FPGA Implementation Tutorial - EEVblog #193
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Dave does some more quick basic testing of the La Gard Basic digital safe lock, for any obvious power line exploits.
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