Today in the dumpster!

Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1760-today-in-the-dumpster-(july-12th-2026)/

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The 10th ACES hardware meetup in Sydney at Engineers Australia. All talks and open mics.
https://luma.com/sydney-114f

00:00 - Engineers Australia HQ
03:19 - Intro
05:42 - Cibby Pulikkaseril from Zabidou
https://www.zabidou.com/
14:42 - Matt Crott from MAKO Aero - Prototype to Product
https://mako.aero/
25:28 - Panel discussion with Cibby, Matt and Brendan Hill from TEN13 Venture Capital
https://www.ten13.vc/
42:28 - Toby Tank from Onset, The Omnia Collective
https://theonset.com.au/
44:52 - An amazing demo of an omnidirectional semi-holographic display!
50:06 - Student Tokamak nuclear reactor
52:31 - Ali and his DIY robot actuators
56:23 - Xtrainr fitness tracker hardware
https://xtrainr.ai/
59:18 - Startup robotics building vision system
1:03:37 - Haptic Virtual Reality Glove from On0
https://on0.com/
1:07:56 - Brian, a Year 12 High School Student doing drone development
1:09:09 - Dropbear AI fast cloud AI models
https://www.dreamscalelabs.com/
1:11:58 - Robocup Junior


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A Greek Dumpster TV LED Backlight replacement Tragedy

Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1758-a-greek-dumpster-tragedy/

00:00 - Dumpster LG 4K TV backlight phosphor failure
02:34 - LED spectrum measurements
03:48 - Teardown
08:49 - LCD TV layers
09:36 - Come-a-gutsa
11:50 - Through the magic of Ali Express
14:49 - Replacing the LED strips
17:55 - Sagan discovers electric screwdrivers
19:31 - A Greek Tragedy

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Sharp GF-7600 Boombox Repair Part 2 Electric Boogaloo
Dismantling, cleaning and fixing the dodgy mains switch contact.

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Bodge repairing THE boombox of the 1980's, the Sharp GF-7600 for a 1980's party.

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Demo, teardown and reverse engineering of the Tolicore 3720 Femtoammeter and voltage source.
https://tolicore.com/products/3720-femtoammeter-voltage-source/
https://tolicore.com/product-documents/3720-Datasheet.pdf
Keithley low current measurement handbook: https://www.tek.com/en/documents/product-article/keithley-low-level-measurements-handbook---7th-edition
Counting LED photons video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJcMgoJ4DOE

00:00 - Femtoammeter measurement
01:16 - Tolicore 3720 Femtoammeter unboxing
03:39 - Power on and UI
05:18 - 20pA full scale range
10:13 - Bluetooth and
11:35 - Humidity measurement is important
12:21 - Crazy sensitive!
13:45 - LED as a current source demo
15:28 - 1nA measurement test
16:43 - Burden voltage and electrometer input + self calibration
20:14 - Teardown
22:20 - Voiding the warranty
25:05 - Reverse engineering
27:32 - How a PCB guard ring works
33:52 - Humidity matters
34:33 - The voltage output
35:23 - Porcelain Multilayer Capacitors
36:22 - Voltmeter input
38:24 - Potentiostatic and Amperostatic Coulometry
40:15 - ADA4530-1 Internal schematic
42:25 - Contamination and PCB assembly cleaning matters
44:03 - Rogers PCB material

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#ElectronicsCreators #Teardown
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The EEVblog is HIRING! Will you be Dave's next sidekick?

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2026 Electronex Show Walkaround

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Bart from Cleverscope returns to discuss and show off designing a 2000V isolated oscilloscope, and demonstrates measuring high voltage GaN transistors and Solid State Transformers.
https://cleverscope.com/products/CS548

Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1753-designing-a-2000v-isolated-oscilloscope-(cleverscope)/

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