Is This A Takeover Bid? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 24, 2018, 06:52:42 pm
content: If you've been around as long as me then you'll remember the good old days of EEVBlog with Mailbag Monday, Teardown Tuesday and even the odd Fundamentals Friday. It appears that those days are behind us (although things can change), but I have made one interesting discovery.Head off to You Tube channelhttps://www.youtube.com/user/TheDefpom/videos?disable_polymer=1OK, the accent will take some getting used to but you'll find a mailbag Monday, a Teardown Tuesday and a Fix it Friday to start your weekend off. So far I've counted sixteen videos for September so there's lots to see.We will know if this is a real takeover bid when Defpom starts to produce his own test equipment

author: NivagSwerdna
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 24, 2018, 07:31:23 pm
content: He's using a knock-off copy of DaveCAD renamed DefCAD but otherwise seems OK as a channel... at 2 orders of magnitude subscribers less currently.Good luck to him.

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 24, 2018, 11:13:35 pm
content: I'm OK with a homage to DaveCAD done by fans on their own channel. Lot's of people have been inspired by the EEVBlog to create a channel. It is a great time to set up a YT channel and share your hobby with others all over the world. There is so much choice and it is getting bigger each day.I'm quite happy with new channels pitched at a more accessible level for me as a humble (if lazy) hobbyist. I'd like Dave to go back to include more hobbyist level content too.But I think it's great there are more channels where ideas and information can get shared. It will help foster new interest in electronics as a hobby. When I was a kid there were a range of magazines that did that.I hope Defpom doesn't burn out with this flurry of content.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 25, 2018, 01:47:41 am
content: Quote from: NivagSwerdna on September 24, 2018, 07:31:23 pmDaveCAD is open source.https://github.com/scanlime/davecad

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 25, 2018, 02:30:13 am
content: Quote from: NiHaoMike on September 25, 2018, 01:47:41 amBullshit ripoff.Here is the originalhttps://github.com/EEVblog/DaveCAD

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 25, 2018, 02:48:59 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on September 25, 2018, 02:30:13 amIf you were to get somecustom-printed yellow sticky notes madeup, I'd buy a box.

author: Mr.B
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 25, 2018, 02:58:52 am
content: LOL

author: ivaylo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 25, 2018, 05:55:47 am
content: It’s a nice routine, glad someone is sticking to it. Subscribed.

author: TheDefpom
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 04:45:57 am
content: Quote from: German_EE on September 24, 2018, 06:52:42 pmLol, I designed a simple high voltage leakage tester project, there is a video series playlist on my channel, open source so you can make it using my files if you like.Certainly not a take over bid, my level of skills are nowhere near Dave’s, but I do enjoy fixing things, which is why I buy so much broken stuff, and capacitors.

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2018, 10:40:19 am
content: Well Fran's latest mailbag (10) has effectively conquered the calculator space.

author: rsjsouza
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 02, 2018, 08:44:48 pm
content: The name DaveCAD may be the most famous, but it is far from being the first. In the 1990s we used to "sign" a bunch of different types of drawing <something/someone>CAD.