Possible Topics For EEVBlab - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: wesphillips
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 04:11:25 am
content: What about doing individual Mailbag items? Not big ones, of course, but maybe small ones, just until your backlog is caught up. If while doing a small one, it turns into a big one, you could simply stop recording and set it aside until your regular mailbag entry. Then when you do the regular mailbag entry you could use the part you already recorded, and edit it into the main mailbag recording.Wes

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 10:17:09 am
content: Maybe if I know what it is and I know I can do it in one take, otherwise there isn't much point.Most people like mailbag to be as long as possible it seems.

author: Artlav
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2014, 01:13:20 pm
content: Not to waste a good thread...What about doing descriptions of things in the lab? Quite a hoard in there, Dropcam does not lie.So, turn the camera on, pick a ball, close your eyes, toss it, then rant about or describe whatever item it fell on.Be it a new scope in a box, or a hammer left on the floor.Should be fun and give you topic hooks to talk about, no?

author: ivan747
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2014, 02:04:50 am
content: Quote from: Artlav on December 22, 2014, 01:13:20 pmDefinatelyAlso a lot of blogs on test equipment!

author: kxenos
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2014, 02:36:26 am
content: Rant please! There's lots of reasons. From altiums circuit maker that we still wait to the people that sell manuals on ebay and they put them in the test equipment category!

author: vargoal
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 25, 2014, 11:21:51 am
content: I like the solar roadway videos. If you could do short reviews of popular kickstarter and indiegogo projects that would be cool.

author: sony mavica
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 26, 2014, 11:04:05 am
content: Quote from: Artlav on December 22, 2014, 01:13:20 pmyes the longer they are the better

author: vargoal
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 26, 2014, 03:38:28 pm
content: Quote from: sony mavica on December 26, 2014, 11:04:05 amWouldn't a longer EEVblab just be a regular EEVBlog post? What time frame did you have in mind to count it as a long blab?

author: ratdude747
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2015, 03:54:59 am
content: Here's a few that come to mind:-Various Chinese Product fails (or people's attitudes towards such)-Proprietary DRM BS (like the EEPROM'd lightning connector)-Idiots who think electrical component ____ solves everything (in my case, dealing with morons who think PLCs are god's gift to everything industrial)-Older people who whine about modern technology and blindly assume it's bad-Product ___ which shot itself in the foot (like the various Rigol pants down videos)-Young people who think "lookie I OSHW'd this" and assume they know everything in Electronics design-People who think that every design has to be "pretty" and/or using "new technolgy" aka wank-People who think that there is no point in making a design and that a electronics design can't be a work of artThat's what comes to mind...

author: pickle9000
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 16, 2015, 07:31:05 am
content: This was interesting.Start from here and go backwards.https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/show-us-your-square-wave/msg587990/#msg587990

author: ivan747
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 19, 2015, 01:08:58 am
content: Dave, tell industry storiesThey are entertaining and you're good at it.

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 19, 2015, 05:13:09 am
content: Quote from: ivan747 on January 19, 2015, 01:08:58 amDave, I would like to hear about your experience with selling electronics kits. What kind of kits? What were the problems? You hinted a few times that this is a tough business but would be interesting to hear what were the challenges.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 24, 2015, 09:58:31 am
content: I'd vote for reviews on cheap test equipment from Ebay like LCR meters, DMMs, frequency generators, etc. Some are good value for money.

author: ivan747
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2015, 03:35:47 am
content: Quote from: nctnico on January 24, 2015, 09:58:31 amSince they're cheap, you can team up with a couple of guys and buy him a pack of those and send them to his mailbag

author: rsjsouza
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2015, 06:26:00 am
content: Dave, if you have worked in cubicles or in an open workspace area, perhaps you could comment on the new trend to take down walls and promote "collaboration". My company seems to be going this way and I would find it interesting to know your take on it.some references:http://www.forbes.com/sites/barbaraarmstrong/2012/05/24/balancing-the-needs-for-collaboration-and-privacy-a-tall-order-in-workplace-design/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/science/when-buzz-at-your-cubicle-is-too-loud-for-work.html?_r=3&

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 05, 2015, 07:07:56 am
content: Quote from: rsjsouza on February 05, 2015, 06:26:00 amThat freaks the crap out of engineers, it's evil.At Altium we (and the programmers) had full seated height cubicles, but the arts people had the open plan desks in a circles all facing each other. All by-design of course.

author: hobbs
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2015, 10:58:11 pm
content: I really need a door that shuts. I worked in a cube farm once as a nipper, but for me, actual thought requires silence. The alcove idea is a good one.CheersPhil Hobbs

author: warp_foo
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 06, 2015, 03:09:59 am
content: Quote from: rsjsouza on February 05, 2015, 06:26:00 amSame here. Ick...m

author: all_repair
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 06, 2015, 03:30:12 am
content: I am always amaze of the disease of many nerds that want to pay peanuts for the Chinese goods but can't stop complain how badass they are, and yet keep going back to buy more (guess there must be jackpots they struck that remain silent, and so the endless recurrence).Admittedly, I can't deny I have that disease, a mild one I want to think. Personally, what I don't understand is the people behind all these products can put in so much engineering efforts to make almost an acceptable product but skim on some totally non-sensical saving that ruin the whole thing. Maybe it is this painful feeling on the waste of engineering efforts that makes the love-hate relationship on these so called "one-hung-low" stuff.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 09, 2015, 02:28:14 am
content: Quote from: hobbs on February 05, 2015, 10:58:11 pmSame here. I used to work in a very noisy open office space with people passing by talking on their mobile phones. Once I quit / worked in my own office I noticed how much better I could concentrate and do a much better job.

author: rsjsouza
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 09, 2015, 03:23:13 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on February 05, 2015, 07:07:56 amI can attest to that. We are all freaked out by this scenario.Quote from: nctnico on February 09, 2015, 02:28:14 amI don't necessarily need to have a shut door, as music and a good quality pair of headphones help me concentrate, but my job also requires constant change of places (from bench to my workstation), and the occasional customer call - thus it is very difficult to be plugged all day long (not that I wanted to be either - even the best headphones tend to be very tiring).One of our distributors had the entire sales team allocated in groups of four desks facing each other in constant phone calls, only divided by a 1/2 meter divider. How could they get anything done was something that always intrigued me.

author: Alex Eisenhut
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 16, 2015, 03:42:41 am
content: Quote from: all_repair on February 06, 2015, 03:30:12 amI'm not sure "badass" is quite the word you wanted there...http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=badass