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More Mailbag Monday. Forum HERE SPOILERS: RemoteBoot Kickstarter Digilent PowerBric Arty Artix-7 FPGA Development Board

Siglent Founder and CEO Eric Qin visited the EEVblog Lab and very kindly agreed to sit down for a quick impromptu chat. Forum HERE

Did you know that your colour laser printer is secretly printing a forensic code on every one of your printouts so the government can track it? Sounds like a nutjob conspiracy theory, but it’s true! Yellow dots that are invisible to the naked eye are printed all over your page that have the printer serial number and time and date encoded within them. List of printers that do/don’t have this forensic encoding http://seeingyellow.com/ It may even violate human rights Forum HERE

Inside the new GW Instek GDS-1000B series entry level low cost oscilloscope. Both the GDS-1054B and the GDS-1104B What is the main mystery processor? It is lower cost than the Rigol DS1054Z, how does it compare? And a look at a SinX/X display processing anomaly that was discovered. Forum HERE Hires Teardown Photos:

A look inside the Rigol DSG815 1.5GHz RF Signal Generator From Emona HiRes Photos:

WARNING: You cannot un-see the dodginess inside this Esinomed Infoview Medical Tablet Computer! Forum HERE From the previous Mailbag video HERE

More Mailbag! Extended Teardown Video HERE Forum HERE SPOILERS: Military Mystery Item Teardown – UPDATE: This is very likely for a 1960’s NASA Atlas D ICBM communications system! Likely designed by Ellis G. Goodwin Get Your Ass To Mars Buzz Aldrin October 22nd 2015 USA Today Back To The Future Newspaper Kickstarter KeyDuino Esinomed Infoview medical tablet computer TDA7377 Power Amplifier Chip 500W PMPO Bullshit Marine LORAN C Autopilot Teardown

Dave explains the fundamental DC circuit theorems of Mesh Analysis, Nodal Analysis, and the Superposition Theorem, and how they can be used to analyse circuits using Kirchhoff’s Voltage and Current Laws we learned in the previous video HERE The same circuit is solved using the 3 different methods. Will we get the same answer from each technique? Forum HERE

Dave explains the fundamentals of Kirchhoff’s Current Law (KCL) and Kirchhoffs Voltage Law (KVL) leading up to how they might be used in the 2nd part of the video HERE Forum HERE

Embedded legend Jack Ganssle and Dave have an impromptu chat on embedded electronics. Everything from EE learning and education, 8008 processors to quantum computing, and from VW Combi vans to the recent Toyota and Volkswagon scandals Jack’s Books Embedded Newsletter Jack’s Youtube channel Forum HERE

Dave checks out the Mantis Elite Cam from Vision Engineering An upgrade to his existing Mantis Elite, but with built in HD USB camera. Is it any good? From www.hawkerrichardson.com.au Update: More powerful measurement software is an option Review video is HERE Forum thread HERE

Find out what 20th century camera technology was like. Inside a Chinon Genesis II film camera Fran Blanche’s channel HERE Forum HERE

A Teardown Bonanaza Mailbag! Fran Blanche is HERE Extra teardown HERE Forum HERE SPOILERS: Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ Lightsaber Chinon Genesis II Film Camera Morrow Apollo Aircraft GPS Morrow Apollo LORAN Navigation Receiver 1970’s 300A Navomatic Analog Autopilot Thrane & Thrane GSM Satellite Phone

A look inside a dumpster Keysight/Agilent N8762A 600V 8A System DC power supply. Where did the magic smoke escape from? PCB spark gap video HERE Forum HERE

Bumper Mailbag. Guest appearance by Sagan Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-813-mailbag/ SPOILERS: Sinclair / Thandar SC110 10MHz portable analog CRT oscilloscope form the 1980’s! Makerbeam by Chartup A mystery device from a Police auction from Rossin Corporation 10MHz TCXO reference clock generator AST3TQ TCXO datasheet Fitbit ripoff teardown CC2541 Bluetooth microcontroller datasheet MMA955L Motion sensing pedometer datasheet Harbour Freight Cen-Tech multimeter teardown!