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There has been a ton of media hype about paving the famous Route 66 with the Brusaw’s Solar Roadways.

Too bad it’s all over hyped bullshit.

Note, the last 5 minutes is repeat material.

Forum HERE

One of Tunderf00t’s videos HERE

The Raspberry Pi 3 has the same Xenon photoflash reset problem as the RPi2 (albeit at a much reduced level)

There is also a photoflash problem with the Broadcom BCM43438 WiFi & Bluetooth chipset. The internet connection will lockup when exposed to sufficient Xenon flash light.

The flash problem explained VIDEO

Forum HERE

Dave takes a look at the ST STM32 L1 series low power ARM chips, and gets a cheap STM32L152C development board up and running with the IAR Embedded workbench compiler and STLINK/V2 interface.

Also a look at the STMcubeMX code initialisation application.

32L152CDISCOVERY

Schematic & User Manual

PIC32MX

Forum HERE

Extreme Mailbag!

2 minutes per mailbag item, can Dave do it?

Forum HERE

SPOILERS:

Hobby Creek Pana Hand

PCB Rax from BenchWerks

SwissMicros HP Calculator replacements. Voyager landscape format scientific calcultors to replace the HP15C, HP16C, and HP41CX

Equil EMF Radation protection device Bullshit

Semikron IGBT hybrid VFD drivers bridge teradown,

Silicon Labs Blue Gecko Bluetooth Smart Module Wireless Starter Kit:

Low Jitter 10MHz Reference Clock

Old ISA Bus POST Card

Simpson 269 High Sensitivity Volt-Ohm-Microammeter

Custom brass Widlarizer Hammer

GEVCU – the Generalized Electric Vehicle Control Unit

Garmin Edge 800 GPS

ISDN NT1 Teardown

DIY Digital Clock Schematic

EEroots.com Integrated development platform

What is the difference between LCD viewing angle and bias angle?

How does adjusting the LCD bias voltage effect the display?

What is LCD Ghosting?

Also a demonstration of Photoelastic Birefringence in polycarbonate plastic display covers.

Dave investigates the Liquid Crystal Display viewing angle problem in the EEVblog BM235 Multimeter.

Forum HERE

Dave talks with Karsten Becker from PT Scientists about the electronics on board the Audi Quattro Lunar Rover, and space electronics in general.

Radiation, thermal design, camera systems, power supplies and more.

Forum HERE

Dave tests the Castle Creations CC BEC Pro battery eliminator used in model airplanes to see if it meets is rated continuous current performance claims.

Also a bit of a how-to on testing regulators like this, 4 terminal load sensing error reduction is demonstrated.

Airflow and thermal camera measuremements are done.

Forum HERE

Datasheets:

Diode

Buck Regulator

Inside the Keysight U1461A Insulation Resistance Multimeter

Forum HERE

Hires teardown photos:

More Mailbag Monday

Forum HERE

SPOILERS:

Infinity PV organic printed solar cells:

Panasonic 840 JE-840U calculator teardown

LED controller car computer thingo teardown

Old school parallel port software protection dongle teardown

World’s first logic IC! The Fairchild µL900 series, as used in the Apollo guidance computer.

Dave is taken to task about his religious rant in a previous video. Can he destroy Dave with a logical argument?

Expert witness court case letter.

Cheap ebay soldering iron of death teardown

Cheap BEC brand voltage regulator for model airplanes, is it any good? Will it meet it’s claims?

Silego GreenPAK Dual-Supply Programmable Mixed Signal Matrix

A very detailed look inside the new Siglent SSA3021X 3.2GHz Spectrum Analyser.

The entire RF section is broken down and analysed in depth with a block diagram overlay.

Forum HERE

Keysight AN150 App Note

Datasheets:

AM3352

mic5209

LMH6517

hmc307

HMC832

hmc976

hmc860

HMC284

hmc488

hmc716

VSWA2-63DR+

hmc703

hmc189a

V600ME14-LF

hmc860

hmc426

hmc835

ADE-2

201410

pe42641ds

hmc976

AD9235