Smoke in the EEVblog Lab! What component failed and caught alight in the RD Tech DPS5020 Power Supply Module? This was supposed to be a build video and review until it caught on fire! Forum HERE

PCB Repair of the RD Tech DPS5020 Power supply module after the flaming capacitor failure. Forum HERE

Dave demonstrates various practical PCB and component selection solutions and techniques to prevent flex stress cracking of Multi Layer Ceramic Capacitors (MLCC) on PCB’s and preventing your product from catching on fire! Open Mode capacitors. Flexible Endcap Soft Termination Capacitors Lead Frame Capacitors Series Capacitors TDK Solutions for Ceramic Capacitor Cracking Soft Termination Open Mode ...

Mailbag is back! Forum HERE SPOILERS: Beginner schematic and PCB layout analysis. Can Dave guess the mystery PCB’s function? Arduino Inventors Guide Book Radiosonde car tracking Psion II PDA BK Precision Binding Post Adaptor The Choculator MPEG4 USB TV/DAB dongle teardown Forrest Mimms Circuit Classics Amp Hour Interview https://www.instagram.com/faz_weekendprojects/

Interview with John Kenny from Keysight Part 1 of several more to come, released daily, stay tuned! Patrons and forum supports will get all the videos early. This one covers the history earlier days of HP, Bill & Dave and their philosophy, early recruitment, the design centres, cash cows, HP-Agilent-Keysight name changes. Keysight vs Danaher/GE ...

Dave takes a quick look at the spectacularly cheap $20 DPS series CC/CV modules from RD Tech. How to make a 30V 3A bench power supply with 1mA resolution constant current limiting and multi function display using a junk bin enclosure and a junked plugpack or old computer power supply. The DPS3003 30V 3A module ...

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. Forum HERE

Forget Arduino & Raspberry Pi being the embedded platform computing standards, PC/104 has reigned supreme for over 25 years and is still THE industrial embedded computing standard. Dave boots up a 17 year old 80386SX PC-104 board with Disk On Chip flash drive. Well, after a lot of frustration anyway. And does anyone remember ThunderByte ...

What’s inside this mystery dumpster dive PC? Will it work? Forum HERE

What’s inside an implantable Medtronics Itrel 3 Neurostimulator designed for Neuropathic pain reduction. Dave tears into the ultrasonically welded titanium case. Manual HERE Forum HERE