1 EEVblog #279 - How NOT To Blow Up Your Oscilloscope!
Widely cited explanation of why oscilloscope grounds are tied to earth and how careless probing of mains or earthed circuits can destroy the scope.
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2 EEVblog #859 - Bypass / Decoupling Capacitor Tutorial
Dave Jones explains why decoupling capacitors are needed, how parasitics limit them, and why mixing values in parallel is not as simple as adding capacitance.
3 EEVblog #600 - OpAmps Tutorial - What is an Operational Amplifier?
Dave Jones's long introduction to op-amps covering the basic rules, virtual ground, common configurations and part selection; recommended to learners who found textbook treatments hard going.
4 EEVblog #180 - Soldering Tutorial Part 1 - Tools
First part of Dave Jones's soldering tutorial series, covering irons, tips, solder and technique; often named as the one soldering guide a newcomer needs.
5 EEVblog #262 - World's Simplest Soft Latching Power Switch Circuit
Dave Jones presents a low part count soft latching power switch built around a P-channel MOSFET and push button; hobbyists use it as a starting point for one-button power control.
6 EEVblog #831 - Power A Micro With No Power Pin!
Demonstrates a microcontroller running through the protection diodes on its I/O pins with the supply pin disconnected; cited whenever a supposedly unpowered chip keeps working.
7 EEVblog #221 - Lab Power Supply Design - Part 1
First part of Dave Jones's series designing a lab power supply with op-amp voltage and current regulation; recommended as an introduction to bench supply design.
8 EEVblog #183 - Soldering Tutorial Part 2
Part two of Dave Jones's soldering tutorial covers through-hole technique on plated boards; frequently recommended to beginners alongside parts one and three.
9 EEVblog #168 - How To Set Up An Electronics Lab
Dave Jones runs through the equipment a hobby electronics lab needs, often recommended to people choosing a first oscilloscope or kitting out a bench.
10 EEVblog #317 - PCB Tinning Myth Busting
Dave Jones measures how much solder over exposed traces lowers resistance, finding roughly a 50 percent cut on 1 oz copper; cited for high current PCB traces.
11 EEVblog #388 - Fake Apple USB Charger Teardown
Dave Jones tears down a counterfeit Apple USB charger and shows its poor mains isolation; cited in discussions of cheap chargers and the shock risk they carry.
12 EEVblog #176 - Lithium Ion/Polymer Battery Charging Tutorial
Dave Jones explains how lithium-ion and lithium-polymer cells are charged, including the constant-current and constant-voltage stages, for people building or choosing a charger.
13 EEVblog #110 - Let's Design a DC to DC Switchmode Converter
Dave Jones walks through designing a switch-mode supply around the MC34063, often pointed to as a hands-on introduction to buck and boost converters.
14 EEVblog #102 - DIY Constant Current Dummy Load for Power Supply and Battery Testing
Dave Jones builds a constant current dummy load from an op-amp, MOSFET and shunt resistor for testing supplies and batteries; a common starting design for DIY loads.
15 EEVBlog #1116 - How to Remove Power Supply Ripple
Dave Jones shows that linear regulators reject little high frequency ripple and demonstrates a capacitance multiplier as a cheap fix; a regular link in ripple filtering questions.
16 EEVblog #186 - Soldering Tutorial Part 3 - Surface Mount
Dave Jones's long tutorial on surface mount soldering by hand, hot air and paste, recommended before attempting small packages.
17 EEVblog #91 - $50 Multimeter Shootout - Extech EX330, Amprobe AM220, Elenco, Vichy VC99, GS Pro-50
Dave Jones compares budget multimeters around fifty dollars and settles on the Extech EX330, a common pointer for a first meter.
18 EEVblog #127 - PCB Design For Manufacture Tutorial - Part 1
First part of Dave Jones's PCB design for manufacture tutorial, full of practical tips such as solder mask pullback; usually recommended with part 2 for automated assembly.
19 EEVblog #1085 - Bypass Capacitors Visualised!
Dave Jones visualises bypass capacitor behaviour; usually linked alongside his bypass tutorial when people ask how to choose values and place decoupling capacitors.
20 EEVblog #105 - Electronics Thermal Heatsink Design Tutorial
Dave Jones's tutorial on calculating thermal resistance and sizing a heatsink, routinely linked when someone asks how hot a regulator or transistor will run.
21 EEVblog #75 - Digital Multimeter Buying Guide for Beginners
Dave Jones's multimeter buying guide; dated in its specific models but still recommended for the features and safety points that matter when choosing a meter.
22 EEVblog #453 - Mysteries of x1 Oscilloscope Probes Revealed
Dave Jones explains how passive x1 scope probes work and why their bandwidth is far lower than x10; cited when fast signals look wrong through a switchable probe.
23 EEVblog #140 - Battery Capacity Tutorial
Dave Jones explains what battery capacity ratings mean, how higher discharge current reduces usable capacity and how a high device cut-off voltage wastes charge.
24 EEVblog #167 - Atten 858D Hot Air Rework Review
Dave Jones reviews the budget Atten 858D hot air rework station; people cite it when choosing a first hot air tool for SMD work.
25 EEVblog #490 - Peak Detector Circuit
Dave Jones builds peak detectors from a simple diode and capacitor up to precision op-amp versions; a frequent reference for envelope and pulse detection projects.
26 EEVblog #247 - Anti Static Bag Myth Revisted
Dave Jones tests anti-static bags, showing pink bags avoid generating charge but do not shield contents from external discharge; cited on ESD storage questions.
27 EEVblog #486 - Does Current Flow Through A Capacitor?
Dave Jones tackles whether current flows through a capacitor, explaining charge on the plates and displacement current; a stock answer to beginner questions on how capacitors conduct.
28 EEVBlog #473 - Microcontroller Voltage Doubler
Dave Jones shows how a microcontroller's square-wave output can drive a charge pump to double its supply voltage; suggested when a small higher-voltage rail is needed.
29 EEVblog #594 - How To Measure Power Supply Ripple & Noise
Dave Jones covers measuring power supply ripple and noise with an oscilloscope; a 40 minute episode cited when probing switching converters shows misleading spikes.
30 Power Supply Design
Dave Jones's EEVblog series designing a precision bench power supply from scratch, valued for showing a working engineer's reasoning as much as the circuit itself.
31 EEVblog #506 - IR Remote Control Arduino Protocol Tutorial
Dave Jones captures an infrared remote's signal on a scope and reproduces it with an Arduino, recommended for understanding IR protocols and carrier modulation.
32 EEVblog #568 - Solderless Breadboard Capacitance
Dave Jones measures the parasitic capacitance between solderless breadboard rows, cited when stray picofarads upset crystals, small capacitors or fast circuits.
33 EEVblog #954 - How To Setup An Electronics Lab For $300
Often shared with newcomers asking what to buy for a first electronics bench, with the usual caveat that not everything listed is essential.
34 EEVblog #469 - Cockcroft-Walton Multiplier
Dave Jones explains how a Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier works stage by stage; answerers link it instead of writing the explanation out again.
35 EEVblog #742 - Why Electrolytic Capacitors Are Connected In Parallel
Dave Jones explains why designers use several electrolytic capacitors in parallel instead of one large one, mainly to lower ESR and spread the load.
36 EEVblog #1045 - How To Drive an LCD
Dave Jones explains the basics of driving a bare segment LCD from simple IO pins, recommended to people who have wired one up as if it were an LED display.
37 EEVblog #1020 - Is A $7 LCR / Component Tester Any Good?
Dave Jones tests a cheap LCR and component tester; suggested to people who need to identify unmarked parts or check a transistor quickly.
38 EEVblog #1055 - How to Design a Custom LCD- µSupply Part 16
Dave Jones walks through designing and ordering a custom multiplexed LCD for his bench supply project; recommended to anyone weighing up a custom display.
39 EEVblog #72 - Let's Design a Product
Dave Jones works through the design of the uCurrent, cited for his comparison of three ways to generate a negative supply rail for an op-amp.
40 EEVblog #1132 - The 3 Cent Microcontroller!
Dave Jones looks at a microcontroller costing about three cents; linked in threads on picking tiny, cheap parts and on splitting a job across several small chips.
41 EEVblog #181 - Dead Bug Prototype Soldering
An EEVblog demonstration of dead bug soldering a tiny surface mount chip, offered as a workable technique for prototyping such packages, with warnings that it needs skill.
42 EEVblog #99 - $100 Multimeter Shootout - Extech Amprobe BK Precision Ideal UEi Uni-T PART 1of2
A multimeter comparison in the hundred dollar bracket, recommended to buyers who want to know which features matter before choosing a meter.
43 EEVBlog #704 - Rigol DS1054Z Oscilloscope Features Review
The EEVblog review of the Rigol DS1054Z, linked whenever someone asks which first oscilloscope to buy and wants to see its features demonstrated.
44 Designing a Li-Ion Battery Gauge with the LM3914 - EEVblog #204
Dave Jones designs a Li-ion battery gauge with the LM3914 and works through the resistor values with Ohm's law; recommended for seeing the design process.
45 EEVblog #94 - Near Death Multimeter Experience
A cautionary tale about a multimeter failing on mains voltage, shared to stress why meter input protection and ratings matter.
46 EEVblog #601 - Why Digital Oscilloscopes Appear Noisy
Dave Jones explains why digital oscilloscopes look noisier than analogue ones, often linked when a new scope's trace looks fuzzy or someone claims analogue has infinite resolution.
47 EEVblog #49 - Decibels (dB's) for Engineers - A Tutorial
Dave Jones explains decibels for engineers, including dBm, and is the standard link when someone asks why dB is used for signal-to-noise ratios and Bode plots.
48 EEVblog #1044 - LCD Technology Tutorial
Dave Jones explains how segment LCD panels work and are driven, useful when reverse engineering or repairing a bare display.
49 EEVblog #42 - Exploding Capacitors in High Speed
An older EEVblog video blowing up electrolytic capacitors, linked to show what happens when polarity is reversed and why it matters for safety.
50 EEVblog #1007 - Is a $25 Multimeter Any Good?
Dave Jones reviewing a cheap Aneng multimeter, used to reassure beginners that a budget meter is fine for low voltage hobby work and to explain its limits.
51 EEVblog #751 - How To Debunk A Product (The Batteriser)
Cited as an EEVblog reference on how battery voltage relates to remaining energy and the cutoff voltage at which devices stop working.
52 EEVblog #225 - Lab Power Supply Design Part 4 - PWM Control
Part four of Dave Jones's lab power supply series covers PWM control filtered to an analogue voltage; also cited for spotting probing artefacts on a scope.
53 EEVblog #1105 - $100 Custom LCD Design - Part 3 (µSupply Part 18)
Part three of Dave Jones's EEVblog series on designing and ordering a custom LCD, following the project through to receiving and testing the finished units.
54 EEVblog #588 - How To Do PCB Production Testing
Dave Jones tests an initial production batch of boards; cited for test traces brought out to the panel edge for functional testing before depanelling.
55 EEVblog #552 - DFM Automated PCB Panel Testing
Dave Jones shows automated testing of PCBs while still panelised, cited for test points and for traces routed across snap-off tabs.
56 EEVblog #479 - Opamp Input Bias Current
Dave Jones explains op-amp input bias current and the offset it creates across input resistors, linked when an amplifier's output sits away from the calculated value.
57 EEVblog #239 - PCB Design For Manufacture Part 2
Part two of Dave Jones's design for manufacture series, recommended to anyone taking a prototype to a production PCB.
58 EEVblog #678 - What is a PCB Spark Gap?
Dave Jones explains PCB spark gaps; cited in discussions of spark gaps and gas discharge tubes as protection against high-voltage transients.
59 EEVblog #801 - How To Design A Digital Clock
Dave Jones revisits a discrete-logic digital clock he designed years ago, useful for understanding mains-frequency timekeeping and old-school logic design.
60 EEVblog 1439 - Analysing Veritasium's Electricity Misconceptions Video
Dave Jones's reply to the Veritasium electricity video, used in debates about how energy travels along wires and when transmission line thinking actually matters.
61 EEVblog #717 - How To Hack Vacuum Fluorescent Displays
Dave Jones works out how to drive a vacuum fluorescent display bought from eBay, useful for anyone reverse engineering one without documentation.
62 EEVblog #1081 - Are Bypass Capacitors REALLY needed? (Muntzing)
Dave Jones tests whether bypass capacitors matter in practice, usually linked alongside his companion decoupling tutorials when questions about choosing decoupling capacitors come up.
63 EEVblog #748 - How Do Transistors Work?
Dave Jones' EEVblog explainer on how bipolar transistors actually work at the junction level, often handed to beginners puzzled by the basic NPN picture.
64 EEVblog #703 - Rigol DS1054Z Oscilloscope Review Summary
Dave Jones's review of the Rigol DS1054Z, regularly cited when someone asks which entry-level oscilloscope is worth buying.
65 EEVblog #855 - Ceramic Capacitor Piezoelectric Effect
An EEVblog video demonstrating audible whine from ceramic capacitors, linked when people ask why a circuit board is making a high pitched noise.
66 EEVblog #626 - Ceramic Capacitor Voltage Dependency
Dave Jones demonstrates how ceramic capacitor value falls under DC bias, cited whenever someone asks about swapping or uprating capacitors.
67 EEVblog 1409 - The DANGERS of Inductor Back EMF
Dave Jones shows the voltage spike an inductor or relay coil produces when switched off, which explains why flyback diodes are fitted across coils and motors.
68 EEVblog #392 - 555 LED PWM Hack
Dave Jones builds a 555-based PWM LED dimmer, used as a worked example of timer circuits, steering diodes and duty cycle control.
69 Soldering
A soldering tutorial playlist recommended for learning technique, including surface-mount work and packages with a thermal pad underneath.
70 EEVblog #244 - How To Lay Out A PCB - PSU Design Part 9
Dave Jones laying out a real power supply board, often named as the main video to watch for PCB layout best practice once a schematic exists.
71 Fundamentals Friday
The EEVblog Fundamentals Friday playlist, recommended as a way to pick up core electronics theory from Dave Jones.
72 EEVblog #596 - World's Cheapest Soldering Station - Yihua 936
An EEVblog look at cheap Yihua soldering stations, generally cited as evidence that these Hakko clones are adequate for beginners and light use.
73 EEVblog #939 - How Is A PCB Manufactured?
Dave Jones' walk through a professional PCB factory, used to show how boards are etched, masked and silkscreened in practice.
74 EEVblog #919 - How To Charge Li-Ion/LiPo Batteries With A Power Supply
Dave Jones shows how to charge Li-ion and LiPo cells from a bench supply using constant current then constant voltage; followed by people charging single 18650 cells.
75 EEVblog #820 - DC Fundamentals Part 5: Mesh & Nodal Circuit Analysis Tutorial
Part of Dave Jones's fundamentals tutorials, recommended for learning to work through mesh and loop circuit analysis step by step.
76 EEVblog #674 - Rigol DS1054Z Teardown
An EEVblog teardown of a Rigol oscilloscope, cited for details of its internals such as the switching supply, relay count and build quality.
77 EEVblog #315 - Korad KA3005P Review/FAIL
An EEVblog review of the Korad KA3005P bench supply that found faulty output transistors, cited in discussions of cheap programmable supplies.
78 EEVblog #1058 - Quick 861DW Hot Air Rework Station Review
Dave Jones's EEVblog review of the Quick 861DW hot air station, cited when people recommend it as a good value rework tool.
79 EEVblog #716 - Raspberry Pi 2 Xenon Flash Problem Explained
Dave Jones explains why a camera flash can reset a Raspberry Pi 2, linked whenever the photoflash reboot quirk comes up.
80 EEVblog #505 - IR Learning Remote Control Hack
Dave Jones works through a remote control hack, covering IR carrier signalling and how button matrices work, recommended before building your own IR project.
81 EEVblog #744 - SMD Thermal Heatsink Design - µSupply Part 15
Dave Jones on getting heat out of surface mount parts through the board, recommended for understanding thermal resistance and the electrical analogy for heat flow.
82 EEVblog #314 - Korad KA3005P PSU Teardown
An EEVblog teardown of a programmable bench power supply, cited for its remote interfaces and a note on tinned exposed traces for current.
83 EEVblog #24 - Chopper Operational Amplifiers
Dave Jones explains chopper and auto-zero op-amp techniques and why they suit low offset current measurement, cited as the usual primer on the topic.
84 Opamps - Tutorials & Practicals
Offered as a dedicated playlist for learning how op-amps work and how to use them in circuits.
85 EEVblog #242 - Hakko FX-888 Soldering Iron Hack
Dave Jones tears down a Hakko FX-888 soldering iron and modifies its indicator LED, giving a look at build quality along the way.
86 EEVblog #86 - Buy a real Analog Oscilloscope PLEASE!
EEVblog's Dave argues that beginners should pick up a cheap second-hand analogue oscilloscope, a view often cited when people ask what scope to buy.
87 EEVblog #602 - Introduction to Microphones
Opens EEVblog's six part conversation with Doug Ford on microphone design, recommended as a chance to hear a seasoned analogue designer reason through trade offs.
88 EEVblog #579 - Precision Low Current Source
Dave Jones works through designing a constant current source, offered as inspiration and possible help for anyone building their own.
89 EEVblog #1178 - Build a $10 DIY EMC Probe
Dave from EEVblog shows how to make a cheap magnetic field probe from a short coil and use it to hunt down EMI sources on a board.
90 EEVblog #373 - Multimeter Input Protection Tutorial
Dave Jones explains the layers of input protection inside a multimeter, including HRC fuses and shielding; often cited when someone asks whether a mistake has damaged their meter.
Hidden gem91 EEVblog #961 - Monkey Debouncing
Dave Jones explains switch and relay contact bounce and the hardware and software ways to debounce it; recommended when microcontroller interrupts misfire on noisy inputs.
92 EEVblog #558 - Beta Layout DIY SMD Thermal Reflow Oven
EEVblog's look at reflowing boards in a converted toaster oven, cited both for the method and for how poorly ordinary oven thermostats hold temperature.
93 EEVblog #70 - Turn your Rigol DS1052E Oscilloscope into a 100MHz DS1102E (Hack)
EEVblog's walkthrough of unlocking a Rigol DS1052E to 100MHz bandwidth, cited when people weigh up which budget oscilloscope to buy.
94 EEVblog #664 - Peltier TEG Energy Harvesting Experiments
An EEVblog explainer recommended for understanding what Peltier modules can and cannot do, both as coolers and as small thermoelectric generators.
95 eevBLAB #10 - Why Learn Basic Electronics?
A case for learning electronics fundamentals properly before diving in, recommended to reset a newcomer's outlook on the basics.
96 EEVblog #215 - Gaussian Resistors
EEVblog measurement of many resistors showing how their values cluster, cited in debates about combining parts to improve precision.
97 EEVblog #250 - Anti-Static Mat Myth
EEVblog test of anti-static bag resistance, cited to show that such bags barely conduct, contrary to common assumption.
98 EEVblog #569 - Tour of an Analog TV Transmission Facility
Dave Jones tours an analogue TV transmission facility; recommended as an eye-opener on how complex high-power RF gets, including rigid coaxial line.
99 EEVblog #26 - Multimeter Tutorial - Counts, Accuracy, Resolution & Calibration
Cited when people explain how multimeter resolution is specified, covering the difference between digit ratings and display counts.
100 EEVblog #555 - 555 Timer Kit
Dave from EEVblog builds a discrete 555 timer kit, linked as an entertaining example of how the chip works from components.
101 EEVblog #441 - How To Track Down Common Mode Noise
Dave Jones demonstrates how to identify and track down common mode noise; pointed to when scope readings of small signals look swamped by interference.
102 EEVblog #572 - Cascading Opamps For Increased Bandwidth
An EEVblog demonstration of op-amp gain bandwidth product, showing how cascading stages can extend bandwidth, cited to settle theory questions.
103 EEVblog #1036 - PSU Fire PCB Repair
An EEVblog repair of a fire damaged power supply board, linked to show both how a small capacitor can fail and how charred board material is removed.
104 EEVblog #37 - Rigol DS1052E Oscilloscope Teardown
EEVblog tears down the Rigol DS1052E oscilloscope, cited for what it reveals about the hardware, including the overclocked ADC parts inside.
