A look inside the die-cast alloy Focal Professional CMS40 active nearfield studio monitor speakers. Forum HERE

More from the Mailbag. MailbagPO Box 7949Baulkham Hills NSW 2153AUSTRALIA SPOILERS:CrowPi Raspberry Pi Learning kitAnd scratch programming.Mr FusionPlay With Junk Youtube channelLED Claytons Nixie Clock kit & Muzio – Music Reactive Led LampSipeed MAIX : The World First RISC-V 64 AI Module for edge computing:Spacial microphone array and video camera face tracking demos

A surprising fault in the 4K LG Dumpster TV. Using the block diagram and schematic to track down the likely culprit and reflowing the BGA’s in an attempt to fix the fault. Forum HERE

Let’s do some programming, early 1970’s style with a teardown of the Canon Canola SX-100 Programmable Calculator Forum HERE

Dave’s 120V Weller WE1010 released the magic smoke when plugged into 240V… PEBKAC for sure, but a potentially dangerous design flaw too? Forum HERE

Dave finds a sweet Yamaha RX-V579 surround sound receiver with all the bell and whistles in the dumpster! Forum HERE Update video:

How do Electrostatic loadspeakers work? Teardown of the BenQ Trevolo S Electrostatic bluetooth speaker. Forum HERE

How an electrostatic adhesion Coulomb Force whiteboard works. Plus teardown and measurement. https://amzn.to/2DQNXRX http://justick.com Forum HERE

Mailbag Monday Yes, I know the lighting and sound isn’t great yet in the new lab, working on it. Forum HERE SPOILERS: Awesome recreations of the Byte front covers https://www.galacticstudios.org/byte-magazine-cover/ http://www.vintagefreeware.com/bytecvrs.htm Expanded scale 5V voltmeter Russian multimeter and calculator Casio Data-Cal 50 calculator Nintendo 64 N64RGB upgrade board http://etim.net.au/n64rgb/instructions-new/ Delay line Battery in-product current measurement

World Exclusive! A teardown and quick look at the new lower cost mid-range 70-350MHz Phoenix chipset based Rigol MSO5000 mixed signal oscilloscope, to be release on the 13th Nov. Stating at US$909. How does it compare to the 7000 series scope just released 5 months ago? Forum http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1146-new-low-cost-rigol-mso5000-oscilloscope/