Dave gives his first impression of Altium's new FREE PCB design tool for the maker community, Circuit Maker. What are the limitations? What do you get? http://www.circuitmaker.com/ Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-754-altium-circuit-maker-first-impressions/ Altium Entry Level PCB Tool Rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GjBFQgVWv0 EEVblog Main Web Site: http://www.eevblog.com The 2nd EEVblog Channel: http://www.youtube.com/EEVblog2 Support the EEVblog through Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/eevblog EEVblog Amazon Store (Dave gets a cut): http://astore.amazon.com/eevblogstore-20 T-Shirts: http://teespring.com/stores/eevblog Donations: http://www.eevblog.com/donations/ Projects: http://www.eevblog.com/projects/ Electronics Info Wiki: http://www.eevblog.com/wiki/

What's inside one of those omni-directional laser barcode scanners you use at the supermarket, and how does it work? Motorola / Symbol LS9208 Datasheets: Reflective Interrupter http://www.osram-os.com/Graphics/XPic0/00083379_0.pdf/SFH%209202,%20Lead%20%28Pb%29%20Free%20Product%20-%20RoHS%20Compliant.pdf http://www.motorolasolutions.com/web/Business/Products/Bar%20Code%20Scanners/General%20Purpose%20Scanners/LS9208/_Documents/Static%20Files/LS9208.pdf http://www.keil.com/dd/docs/datashts/atmel/at91fr4042.pdf http://www1.futureelectronics.com/doc/RENESAS%20ELECTRONICS/DF2215RTE24V.pdf Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-636-omni-directional-laser-barcode-scanner-teardown/ EEVblog Main Web Site: http://www.eevblog.com EEVblog Amazon Store: http://astore.amazon.com/eevblogstore-20 Donations: http://www.eevblog.com/donations/ Projects: http://www.eevblog.com/projects/ Electronics Info Wiki: http://www.eevblog.com/wiki/

Dave finds a nice 46" Samsung LED backlight LCD TV in the dumpster, will it work? What's inside? Also I look at using the Inventables waterproof insulating solder sleeves: https://www.inventables.com/technologies/solder-sleeves NOTE: I think a wide nozzle heat gun must be used on these. The small one I used didn't maintain enough heat into the wires. Flux Capacitor T-Shirt: http://teespring.com/fluxgatecondenser Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-780-samsung-lcd-tv-dumpster-dive-teardown/ EEVblog Main Web Site: http://www.eevblog.com The 2nd EEVblog Channel: http://www.youtube.com/EEVblog2 Support the EEVblog through Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/eevblog EEVblog Amazon Store (Dave gets a cut): http://astore.amazon.com/eevblogstore-20 T-Shirts: http://teespring.com/stores/eevblog Donations: http://www.eevblog.com/donations/ Projects: http://www.eevblog.com/projects/ Electronics Info Wiki: http://www.eevblog.com/wiki/

What's inside a professional Sony MDE7000 Video Effects Processor, as used in TV stations and video production facilities? This one was used in the Foxtel TV1 TV station before it was shut down end of 2013. Dave also discusses high density PCB design issues and methods, and systems engineering. Spec Sheet: http://www.pmotions.com/Public/PDFs/SONY/DME-7000.pdf User Manual: http://support.sapir.ac.il/files/2012/05/dme3k7kp.pdf Datasheets: http://www.datasheet4u.com/datasheet/C/X/D/CXD1812Q_SonyCorporation.pdf.html http://www.datasheet4u.com/datasheet/S/B/X/SBX1602A_Sony.pdf.html http://www.datasheet4u.com/datasheet/C/X/D/CXD8060Q_ETC.pdf.html http://www.datasheet4u.com/datasheet/C/X/D/CXD8059Q_ETC.pdf.html http://www.datasheet4u.com/datasheet/C/X/D/CXD8841Q_ETC.pdf.html Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-598-sony-dme7000-video-multi-effects-processor/ EEVblog Main Web Site: http://www.eevblog.com EEVblog Amazon Store: http://astore.amazon.com/eevblogstore-20 Donations: http://www.eevblog.com/donations/ Projects: http://www.eevblog.com/projects/ Electronics Info Wiki: http://www.eevblog.com/wiki/