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.
A simple guide to electronic components.
Big Clive gives a 38-minute beginner's guide to identifying common electronic components and what they do.
Amazon Sells Fake Electrical Fuses
Louis Rossmann examines fuses sold on Amazon that fail to trip at their rated current, including a 2A fuse surviving 8 amps.
How To Contact The Voyager 2 Probe (PART 1)
Dave Jones of EEVblog and Richard Stephenson tour the 70m DSS43 dish at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex and explain how NASA talks to Voyager 2.
The Secret Life of the Radio - Remastered
Remastered episode of Tim Hunkin's The Secret Life of Machines about the radio, covering its development including Hertz and Marconi experiments and Armstrong's FM radio in animated form.
Defeating Microwave Weapons! - Part 1
Tech Ingredients demonstrates how microwaves work and how they affect objects at range, then shows ways to defend against them.
The simple, clever sensor behind automatic windshield wipers
Technology Connections explains how automatic windshield wiper rain sensors work, using an infrared light source and total internal reflection in the glass.
Reading Silicon: How to Reverse Engineer Integrated Circuits
Ken Shirriff walks through how to reverse engineer integrated circuits from die photos, using famous chips as examples, in a Hackaday SuperConference talk.
How to power ANYTHING using USB-C Power Delivery and the ZY12PDN PD Trigger Board
Kenneth Finnegan shows how USB-C Power Delivery trigger boards like the ZY12PDN negotiate 5V to 20V so you can power projects from a USB-C charger, including the color coding for each voltage.
Melt your circuit boards
mitxela shows his KiCad plugin that rounds PCB tracks to give circuit boards organic, melted-looking layouts instead of rigid geometric ones.
Why build an entire computer on breadboards?
Ben Eater explains why he builds computers on breadboards, including testing their signal behavior on an oscilloscope.
#112 LoRa / LoRaWAN De-Mystified / Tutorial
Andreas Spiess explains the basic principles of LoRa and LoRaWAN, their pros and cons, link budget and bandwidth.
Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon
LightningOnDemand revives a pulsed Lorentz plasma cannon, using modern capacitors to extend its range and increase the delivered energy.
How does Starlink Satellite Internet Work?📡☄🖥
Branch Education explains how Starlink works, from the ground dish and satellites to phased-array beam steering and data routing.
TOTAL teardown of a lithium phone battery.
Big Clive does a complete teardown of a lithium phone battery, taking apart the protection circuit, case and the cell itself.
Teardown of an IKEA Koppla USB power supply.
Big Clive takes apart an IKEA Koppla USB power supply to assess its safety, looking at isolation and transformer construction.
World's worst video card? The exciting conclusion
Ben Eater finishes building a minimal VGA video card from logic circuits.
Megaprocessor Tour 1 - (fixed audio)
A short tour of the Megaprocessor, a microprocessor built at enormous scale from tens of thousands of discrete transistors.
EEVblog #822 - World's Worst Tablet Computer Teardown
Dave Jones of EEVblog tears down an Esinomed Infoview medical tablet computer built around an 800MHz AMD Geode board, exposing extremely shoddy construction and design.
Why it's not possible to synchronize turn signals (but also absolutely is)
Technology Connections explains why car turn signals appear to drift out of sync at stoplights and how thermal and other flasher designs work.
Open Source 8.5 Digit Voltmeter from CERN: Build and Test
Marco Reps builds and tests an open-source 8.5 digit voltmeter based on CERN's high-precision ADC design.
Is 5G Spelling Our DOOM?! How EM Waves Can Hurt
ElectroBOOM examines whether 5G and other electromagnetic waves can harm people, explaining the EM spectrum and the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
How Wrong Is VERITASIUM? A Lamp and Power Line Story
ElectroBOOM's Mehdi Sadaghdar responds to Veritasium's lamp-and-long-wire puzzle, analysing it as an electrical engineer.
Dangerous tattoo remover from eBay is a MILLION watt laser
Styropyro tests an eBay laser tattoo removal device and finds it is a roughly million-watt pulsed laser, powerful enough to ignite air in the beam.
Welcome to Project Soli
Google ATAP's 2015 introduction to Project Soli, a radar-based sensor on a chip that tracks sub-millimeter hand motions for gesture interaction in small devices.