Dave spent several hours filming the simulator project and then some more time interviewing rod. At work, our software is altium designer and i had completed some earlier projects in kicad which has no translation to altium. Sign up for your own profile on github, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 40 million developers. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover david s. Even if they literally released altium designer for free i dont think it would take over. Hi, all of my formal training in pcb layout has tended to be on how to use the tools protelaultim, which is an excellent place to start. A follow on from some of the recent blogs that have involved basic thermal heatsink calculation. Dave, who is an electrical engineer, was very interested in simstack and our work turning cockpits into simulators.
Dave jones is the only person i can think of, and i think he has. At the same time, we elected to do a parody of dave set back in 1978. Subscription is less explaining, less justification meetings, and it is how netflix and spotify etc. He is the founder and host of eevblog electronics engineering video blog, a blog and youtube channel targeting electronics engineers, hobbyists, hackers, and makers. See who you know at eevblog, leverage your professional network, and get hired. David jones video game developer born 1966, scottish ceo of real time worlds since 2002. Ive been creating electronics engineering youtube videos since april 2009, with over 0 episodic engineering videos. Dave worked at altium before spinning up the eevblog, so this really is his old stomping.
Dave jones of the eevblog has a great soldering tutorial as part of his video blog series. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover davids connections and jobs at similar companies. Eevblog youtube an offthecuff video blog about electronics engineering, for engineers, hobbyists, enthusiasts, hackers and makers. David annwn jones born 1953, anglowelsh poet, critic and teacher. Before becoming a fulltime blogger, jones worked on fpga boards for the eda company altium. Jones page 3 of 25 3 introduction youve designed your circuit, perhaps even bread boarded a working prototype, and now its time to turn it into a nice printed circuit board pcb design. Dave jones shows us just how bad audio equipment can get with his white van speaker scam teardown youtube link. Its at least worth updating the firmware for, thats for sure. Here is another great video from dave jones of eevblog. Common parts library for prototyping the common parts library for prototyping is a collection of electronic components, tools and equipment for prototyping new connected products. Im a huge fan of dave jones and his eevblog website and youtube channels, and followed the development of this meter with a lot of interest and anticipation. Eevblog youtube kodi open source home theater software. Electronics thermal heatsink design bay area circuits.
Amprobe am570 industrial digital multimeter with truerms. A subreddit dedicated to news, articles and general discussions related to electronic systems and circuits. I work with pcb design tools a lot cadence, altium, eagle, you name it. According to jones, he began publishing electronic design project plans in electronics diy magazines like electronics australia in the 1980s. The board has two layers and their dimensions are approximately 80mm x 51mm. The eevblog is the worlds largest and most popular youtube engineering channel with over 450,000 subscribers, and hosts one of the most popular engineering community forums the eevblog forum linked above the eevblog is hosted by david l. For those who dont know eevblog is a website and forum run by dave jones, an australian electronics engineer. Eevblog 121gw multimeter by david jones kickstarter.
Well here we have dave jones again with one of his teardown tuesdays. The product is named as circuit maker and provides most of the features the expensive altium design suite provides. David robert haywood jones 19472016, english musician and actor, known professionally as david bowie. Altium gives away the farm with new circuit maker software. View david jones profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. This time around dave takes you though the basic theory of thermal design and how heatsink calculations work. Dave gives his first impression of altiums new free pcb design tool for. See altium system requirements for more information. Sign up for your own profile on github, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 50 million developers. This repository builds off of our previous work the podiv altium repository.
Electronics engineering radio show and podcast the amp hour. Micah scott video logs of reverse engineering and repurposing consumer electronics hardware in creative ways. Jun 20, 2015 dave jones of the eevblog, gives you a full rundown on the beta version. I follow eevblog quite closely and dave jones has excellent insight into altium as well as most things related to electronics engineering. He is the founder and host of eevblog electronics engineering video blog. Kicad limited mechanical or industrial engineering. Dave jones of the eevblog, gives you a full rundown on the beta version. Photocopier teardown from eevblog bay area circuits. Originally designed and sold by dave jones on the eevblog, this derivative has several enhancements specifically for measuring varying currents on todays low power devices. The product comes from the top player in the pcb and cad design softwares, altium. Eevblog is creating electronics engineering videos patreon. This project is set up to provide all documentation, design and data validation required for the badgerloop pod v pcbs. As an anecdote, i believe dave jones of the eevblog used to work at altium. The eevblog is the worlds largest and most popular youtube engineering channel with over 450,000 subscribers, and hosts one of the most popular engineering community forums the eevblog forum linked above.
Dave worked at altium before spinning up the eevblog, so this really is his old stomping grounds. This is the original version with the letters in the gear teeth. New free altium version coming too old to reply ian johnston 20140915 11. Hackaday prize judge dave has some great educational videos on his eevblog. The schematic is the logical representation of the circuit. Theres a thread over at the eevblog, goto page 8 and youll see dave. Switch mode voltage regulators and the varying current draw of mcus and rf chips require the determination of the current draw over time to calculate the total power. Its 4000 square meters 43,000 square feet, and exactly 3950 square meters larger than his. Dave gives his first impression of altium s new free pcb design tool for the maker community, circuit maker. Dave looks at the shockingly energy wasteful design of mains powered smoke alarms. Eevblog one of the earliest and most successful youtube channels where dave jones does teardowns, tutorials and more. Dave jones drummer active since 1983, drummer with agnostic front.
Dai jones born 1943, welsh television presenter and radio broadcaster. Electroboom youtube channel that debunks and explains ee topics with a lot of comedy thrown in. In recent years, several of his project articles appeared in silicon chip. While theres definitely room for better software, the most frustrating thing about the pcb cad ecosystem right now is a lack of interoperability between file formats for schematic, layout, and gerbers, and b lack of publicly accessible components.
He selected 12 videos to release one at a time each day he was gone. S schematic p pcb f firmware andor software m mechanical cad files d design documentation b bill of materials c license used allows for commercial use suggested use for nonoriginal tool source files e. He does a great job of breakdown a wide variety of electronic devices in his weekly show. At the end of november, we had a visit from dave jones who runs the very successful eevblog on youtube. The most important thing to ensure is that your internal power planes do not come to the edge of the board and short to the edge plating. I just got an email yesterday from charles at trio test. David jones is raising funds for eevblog 121gw multimeter on kickstarter. Those changes arent as common but that transformative nature can be really. Converting gerber to pcb in altium as far as i know, a gerber cant be converted back to a pcb because it is a production format and not a design format.
The projects created using circuitmaker may include certain open source software or hardware designs originated from third parties that is subject to the gnu general public license gpl, gnu librarylesser general public license lgpl and different andor additional licenses, disclaimers, and notices. Myself, not being in a position to pay the 10k altium designer price tag, i. Jones is good and gives detail information on pcb design and process. The eevblog features simstack on youtube simulator solutions. Dave jones of eevblog was going on a walkabout and offered to show guest videos. I have heard very good things about altium, but its expensive, very expensive at least for me because i just graduated college. Check out the software today and start using it for free with just one time signup.
See altium s ignore pad to pad clearances within a. Jones is an australian electronic design engineer and video blogger. I have written this from the point of view of a hobbyist, especially a poor one. A free online environment where users can create, edit, and share electrical schematics, or convert between popular file formats like eagle, altium, and orcad. Including some performance measurements on the tektronix mdo3000 spectrum analyser. A gerber file contains only one of the many layers of a pcb, an no information on nets, components or electrical connectivity at all. David jones jazz musician 18881956, american jazz saxophonist david thomas jones 19452012, english actor and singer, probably best known as davy jones of the monkees. In this supersized lecture length episode, dave foolishly attempts to explain how to design an example product the ucurrent from start to finish.
Dave jones, the multitalented proprietor of eevblog. David jones writer, creator of the television series fireman sam. These are worth watching for anyone with questions about soldering tools and technique. Dave gives his first impression of altiums new free pcb design tool for the. Over at eevblog, dave jones has just published a teardown of the brand new siglent sds1104xe 4channel dso. Jan 12, 2018 the first board is related to opencurrent, an open source version of ucurrent developed by dave jones of the eevblog. Ive been creating electronics engineering youtube videos since april 2009, with over 0 episodic engineering videos with hundreds more on my 2nd and other channels. David jones electronics engineering video blog eevblog. Im really enjoying my new eevblog brymen bm235 digital multimeter. The technology in these machines has really changed over the last ten years.
How can bad and cheap product design kill the environment by requiring vastly more energy generation, delivery and pf correction infrastructure. Circuitmaker is available as freeware, and the hardware designed with it may be used for commercial and noncommercial purposes without limitations. A continuous 45min screen cast of dave installing and running kicad for the first time, along with his first impressions and rants about things he finds along the way, mainly with the schematic. Eagle pcb software changing to subscription based services. The eevblog sparkgap generator the amp hour electronics. Dave also participates in a weekly podcast called the amp hour.
For some designers, the pcb design will be a natural and easy extension of the design process. Pcb layout techniques element14 pcb services forum. Posted in toy hackstagged dave jones, eevblog, speak n say, toy. Oct 11, 2015 dave takes a look at the new siglent sdg2122x sdg2042x arb generator and compares it to the rigol dg4162 and the older siglent sdg5082. Sep 17, 2014 i work with pcb design tools a lot cadence, altium, eagle, you name it. Dave finally found some high cri, 5000k, low glare led ceiling panels. Circuitmaker is electronic design automation software for printed circuit board designs targeted at the hobby, hacker, and maker community. Jun 15, 2015 dave gives his first impression of altium s new free pcb design tool for the maker community, circuit maker.