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Using A Bench Power Supply To Charge Lithium Ion Batteries
David Jones has another useful video tutorial about how to safely charge Lithium Ion and Lithium Polymer batteries with a bench power supply. The purpose of this tutorial is to learn how to use your lab power supply to charge your Lithium Ion battery when you don’t have a special...
Continue ReadingZener Diodes In Theory and Practice
David Jones made a tutorial on the fundamentals of zener diodes over his EEVblog youtube channel. David started the tutorial comparing between zener and regular diode. Both have the same characteristics and same I-V chart, but zener is designed to work in the negative voltage...
Continue ReadingIRis – An Infrared Sensor using Photodiode amplification Circuit
[devttys0] designed a sensitive IR detector for capturing weak infrared signals. He shared in detail how he designed the circuit, beginning from the basic components, walking through solving the problems and finally ended up with a complete working circuit. Craig Heffner/[devttys0]...
Continue ReadingSoft Latch Power Switch Circuit
Dаvid Jones through his Youtube channel EEVblog described in detail how to design a cheap soft latch power switch circuit, using one push button switch to toggle your circuit power on and off with the following design requirements: Zero power when off. One on/off switch....
Continue Reading5 Tips on designing RF PCBs
Michael Ossmann shared some of his practical experience and insights in designing RF PCBs, Michael designed a lot of RF PCBs like HackRF One, which is an open source SDR (Software Defined Radio) platform. Michael tips don’t include talking about Smith charts, Q factor, S parameters...
Continue ReadingShenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary)
Future Cities, a full-length documentary strand from WIRED Video, takes us inside the bustling Chinese city of Shenzhen We examine the unique manufacturing ecosystem that has emerged, gaining access to the world’s leading hardware-prototyping culture whilst challenging...
Continue ReadingThey’re ‘Not’ JUST Capacitors
James Lewis from Kemet has made a presentation to address some of misconceptions about capacitors like how you should de-rate capacitors. James said that de-rating depends on the chemistry and configuration of a particularly capacitor. So he started by asking a question: Should...
Continue ReadingTwo books for makers that you should read!
educ8s.tv uploaded the last video of this season and it's a different one! The first one, is this: Practical Electronics for Inventors. Since I studied computer science and not electronics engineering at University, I needed to find a good book to study electronics myself. After a...
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