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.
The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name
Technology Connections explains why the superheterodyne radio has its name and how mixing frequencies lets it tune stations well.
How Electricity Actually Works
Veritasium explores how electrical energy actually travels in a circuit, arguing that it flows through electromagnetic fields around the wires rather than through the electrons.
How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound
Jerobeam Fenderson shows how to draw a mushroom on an oscilloscope in XY mode using stereo audio, then animates it by modulating with a larger wave.
Making a Full Bridge Rectifier
ElectroBOOM's Mehdi Sadaghdar explains how a full bridge rectifier works, the building block of AC to DC converters, with his usual humor and a demonstration of the circuit.
(Sponsored) KiCad STM32 + USB + Buck Converter PCB Design and JLCPCB Assembly - Phil's Lab #11
A roughly three-hour screen recording of designing a barebones STM32F4 board in KiCad, covering schematic, four-layer layout and routing, USB and a buck converter.
WLW's 500,000 Watt Transmitter
A tour of the historic WLW transmitter facility in Mason, Ohio, recorded at Hamvention 2013.
Design Your Own Keyboard!
Ben Vallack walks through designing a custom keyboard PCB from scratch using Ergogen and KiCad, ending with a gerber file ready to order from a PCB fabricator.
The rigs we've created for chipsynth MD's emulation.
A Plogue developer shows the custom electronic test rigs built to measure the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis sound chip (YM2612) for the chipsynth MD emulation.
EEVblog #1132 - The 3 Cent Microcontroller!
Dave Jones of EEVblog looks at a sub-3-cent microcontroller from Padauk and other obscure Chinese manufacturers.
KiCad 6 STM32 PCB Design Full Tutorial - Phil's Lab #65
A 100-minute tutorial from Phil's Lab on designing an STM32-based 'black pill' PCB in KiCad 6.
EEVblog #186 - Soldering Tutorial Part 3 - Surface Mount
Dave Jones of EEVblog shows hand soldering of surface-mount parts, including drag soldering and tack-and-reflow of 0.5mm fine-pitch ICs, with solder paste and hot air.
Pulling Clear Images Directly Off Satellites | GOES-15,16,17 and Himawari 8 HRIT
The Thought Emporium shows how to receive clear images directly from GOES-15, 16 and 17 and Himawari 8 geostationary weather satellites with software-defined radio.
An Intro to KiCad – Part 1: How PCBs Are Made | DigiKey
Shawn Hymel of DigiKey introduces KiCad and explains how printed circuit boards are manufactured.
Homemade Transistor Demonstration
Jeri Ellsworth demonstrates a PMOS transistor she fabricated herself in a home chip lab.
Horrific USB power supply fault. (Electrocution risk.)
Electronics hobbyist bigclivedotcom tears down a cheap USB power supply with a manufacturing fault that carries full mains voltage to the USB ports, showing the risk of electric shock.
TSP #133 - Keysight UXR 110GHz BW, 256GS/s, 10-bit Real-Time Oscilloscope Teardown & Experiments
Shahriar of The Signal Path tears down and experiments with Keysight's UXR real-time oscilloscope, which offers 110GHz bandwidth and 256GS/s sampling, and compares architectures from Keysight, LeCroy and Tektronix.
The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)
Technology Connections takes apart a 1970 Wurlitzer 3400 jukebox to show how electromechanical relays and switches automated its behavior without a computer.
EEVblog #555 - 555 Timer Kit
Dave Jones builds the Evil Mad Scientist discrete-component 555 timer kit, then tests it and explains the internal circuitry of the 555 at transistor level.
Build an electroluminescent glass panel display -- an Apollo DSKY
Applied Science builds a replica Apollo DSKY using an electroluminescent driver circuit and screen-printed conductive ink, with source and PCB files published.
How Analog Color TV Works: The Beginnings
Technology Connections explains the early history of analog color television, from the 1954 start of modern color broadcasting, and how shadow masks work in CRTs.
Making logic gates from transistors
Ben Eater shows how to build logic gates out of transistors, including NOR gates.
Pinging The Voyager 2 Probe (PART 2)
Part two of EEVblog's visit to the NASA/CSIRO Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, showing the control room and how operators contact Voyager 2.
EEVblog 1547 (Part 1) - Contacting the Voyager 2 Space Probe
EEVblog interviews Richard Stephenson of NASA's Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex about how the 70m DSS-43 dish is used to contact Voyager 2.
Professional SMT Soldering: Hand Soldering Techniques - Surface Mount
A three-minute demonstration of professional hand-soldering techniques for multi-lead surface mount parts, to IPC class 3 criteria.