PickVidsBest Electronics & circuit design Videos
The 107 Electronics & circuit design videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 23 introductory, 43 intermediate, 36 for a general viewer, and 5 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Technology Connections, EEVblog, Ben Eater.
AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)
A Bell Labs film in which Dr.
8-bit computer update
Ben Eater's short update announcing his plan to build another 8-bit computer from scratch on camera.
“Hello, world” from scratch on a 6502 — Part 1
Ben Eater starts a series building a working computer on breadboards around the 6502 microprocessor.
Finding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams
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[LIVE] How to Achieve Proper Grounding - Rick Hartley - Expert Live Training (US)
Rick Hartley gives a roughly two-hour live training on proper grounding in PCB design.
I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate
AlphaPhoenix builds a scaled-down version of the Veritasium electricity thought experiment using about a kilometer of wire and an oscilloscope.
What your Differential Pairs Wish You Knew with Rick Hartley - AltiumLive Keynote
Rick Hartley's AltiumLive keynote on differential pairs in PC boards.
The world's worst video card?
Ben Eater explains how VGA signals work and builds a breadboard circuit that produces correct sync timing so a monitor recognizes the signal.
The Art of Making a Nixie Tube
Dalibor Farny documents the hand manufacture of a nixie tube, from glassblowing to evacuation, with text notes rather than narration.
How does a USB keyboard work?
Ben Eater explains how a USB keyboard communicates, covering the electrical interface, bit and packet encoding, packet contents, and a comparison with PS/2.
Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second
AlphaPhoenix uses a custom high-speed measurement setup to watch voltage waves travel down wires and split at a fork.
BlueHat IL 2019 - Andrew "bunnie" Huang - Supply Chain Security: "If I were a Nation State...”
Andrew "bunnie" Huang examines how realistic hardware supply chain attacks are, from rogue insiders to nation states, in the wake of the Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Old pinball machines are amazingly complex
Technology Connections takes a long, detailed look at how a 1970s electromechanical pinball machine works, from relays to stepper motors and mechanical logic.
A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable
Adam Savage and engineer Zach Radding examine Lumafield CT scans of Apple's $130 Thunderbolt 4 cable alongside cheaper USB-C cables.
How an Atomic Clock Really Works: Inside the HP 5061A Cesium Clock
CuriousMarc powers up a vintage HP 5061A cesium beam clock and explains both the quantum principle and the HP implementation in detail.
The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps
Big Clive tears down the Dubai lamp, a Philips LED bulb developed with Dubai's ruler for maximum efficiency and long life.
Electric car chargers aren't chargers at all – EVSE Explained
Technology Connections explains that the so-called EV charger in an electric car's charging cable or wall unit is really an EVSE, a smart switch that safely delivers AC power.
British Plugs Are Better Than All Other Plugs, And Here's Why
Tom Scott explains the design of the British BS 1363 plug and socket, including fuses, shutters and safety features, and why he thinks it beats other plugs.
How a transistor works
Ben Eater gives a detailed look at how an NPN bipolar junction transistor works and what it does.
Inside a Huge PCB Factory
Strange Parts tours JLCPCB's large PCB factory in Huizhou, China, walking through the printed circuit board manufacturing process step by step.
Introduction to LibrePCB A new, powerful and intuitive EDA tool for everyone
Urban Bruhin, LibrePCB's main author, introduces the open-source EDA tool at FOSDEM 2018.
Fun with ultracapacitors!!
Afrotechmods plays with 2600F ultracapacitors that can dump hundreds of amps, shorting them to vaporize bits of metal.
LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish
Technology Connections experiments with filtering white and colored LEDs to make holiday lights look less garish.
8-bit CPU control logic: Part 1
Ben Eater writes a program in a made-up machine language and walks through the control logic an 8-bit breadboard CPU needs to execute it.