EEVblog #114 - Electronex 2010 Electronics Exhibition

[linagee]

"do you go on?" LOL. :-)

[hoppes9]

I'll just bet those Rigols are chock-full of quality Wun-hung-lo capacitors.

[crippled82]

many wannahaves :D

[DanFrederiksen]

could the small LeCroy scope be a chinese oem that we've already seen under another brand name?

[yanava]

Now I've seen the whole video and you checked it out. R&S will make this baby an MSO quite soon.

[yanava]

The agilent 9000 actually has a 15.4inch screen. We turned one of those down in favour of the new Rohde & Schwarz RTO Scope. You should definatelly check it out.

[heroineworshipper]

what's a zed axis?



[DanFrederiksen]

@heroineworshipper proper english is what it is :)

[MagicHandedAlex]

$10-15k for an oscilloscope!!!! I can't afford to become an EE! :P

[therealxevious]

As usual a fantastic Episode. Loads of nice equipment.

But... you really need to build a small steadycam, and probably do manual focus too. Apart from that... perfect.

[hugos31]

II PART?

[hugos31]

very good

[Wizard4592]

Agilent owned.

[onehundredand37]

mmmmmmmm... sex on a stick

[sneakerset]

I'm just not "up to speed" on Aus. import duties for Euro equip. (such as R&S),Dave. Also, it seems that ROC(Taiwan) and mainland China have become extremely contentious as suppliers of low cost high-end test equipment. I prefer the Taiwanese stuff for sheer technical expertise.The Rigol rep. was funny....he beat the word 'basically" right into the ground. Thanks for the walk-thru at this expo hall (an eclectic mix of the old and the new).

[davidjereb]

Those Hameg instruments are mouthwatering :O

[Mulletsrokkify]

See if you can get one of those R&S scopes for review, they look the dogs mate!

[lwhite703]

Amazing. I thought I had a decent scope with my Tek TDS-1002.  Seeing all these nice high end ones in the video made my think otherwise...

[exnol]

'It can probably wash your dishes as well' Dave you thinking about replacing your wife with that one!

[smileman66]

My mouth is watering.

[xspoonedx]

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the older high end gear featured in this video (LeCroy WaveRunner, Agilent 20MHz arb function generator) and they are just monstrous bits of kit and something I would recommend if you ever have £10k or so burning a hole in your pocket :)

Dave: what kind of kit do you get to mess around with at work. From the sound of some of the projects you have described I bet you get to play with some cool stuff!

Thanks too for the coverage!

[EEVblog]

@xspoonedx At my old job we had tons of high end stuff. Unfortunately my current job offers next to nothing in this regard :-(

[AllenKll]

"sex on a stick" count: XXXXX Total: 5

I love the 3D display on that hand held Agilent spec-an.

Infinium interfaces... blech.. I'm in the "hate it" club.

Nice Vid Dave!

[TheWelly888]

Truly awesome equipment on display there! I could not help noticing that it appeared very quiet at the time you were there.

Thanks for filming it.

[000Ru000]

Nerd pron; love it :)

[marianoaldogaston]

the rigol guy must know that you are the responsible for selling all 50mhz scopes

[EEVblog]

@marianoaldogaston Rigol are fully aware that I helped them sell a squillion 50MHz scopes, yet they won't talk to me any more!

[allgovsarecriminal]

rigol shouldn whine. i as a beginner looked out for a scope, first used analog ones at ebay, second used ones at forums. at those forums i read about the ds1052e, searched the web, viewed your video about it and thought "why get a analog used one if i can have this for a bit higher price?"

so i bought it for 355€ which is a good price at germany oO.

IN FACT: it was delivered today and my neighbor took it because i was at work. its still there like 10 meters away and i cant get my hands on it :/

[rlewis1946]

Really enjoyed the tour and commentary. Thanks for taking a look around!!

RL Atlanta, Georgia, USA

[goliady]

UHOU....

[goliady]

UHOU.... 

[MrBrutano]

hey dave can you recommned a beginner book about microcontrollers!!??

[joeles69]

stop saying sex on a stick...

say its porn for nerds or something..

[EEVblog]

@joeles69 What, and then get hammered for saying "porn for nerds" too many times? When you film this stuff over the course of the day you don't realise how many times you have said something.

[joeles69]

@EEVblog tru that....

[DanFrederiksen]

@EEVblog sex on a stick is just fine. goes well with your persona : )

it sounds painful but it's understood :)

[Gameboygenius]

01:27 GLITCH!

[EEVblog]

@Gameboygenius Yeah, not sure if that's my camera/card or video edit software.

[27dec1983]

How much sex on a stick are you having? Too me, it seems a lot.

[baddspella]

stop saying "sex on a stick". you sound like a dick

[philbx1]

@baddspella

Amazing effort with your fine input!

Amazing also how the 'next-gen' are impolite without much reason at all.

Dave gives a lot of time to do this stuff and I'd hope that a smart person like you

would have better things to comment about.

[baddspella]

@philbx1 chill out gramps. was not a personal attack on dave, it was just advice.

im more into arduinos (i guess those 4 words gives you sufficient amunition to try hurt my feelings in return), building junk bots, and hardware hacking. Scopes do not tickle my intrest one bit so what dave was saying stood out (painfully).

+ I think i had sufficient resoning.

[philbx1]

@baddspella

BTW, I'm a sort of an AVR fan-gramp (6 boards).

Although you may think you have sufficient reasoning, I think yourmessage was delivered with a rock & not a carrot. Also, I like Dave's dialog and if he didn't say anything slightly interesting, he'd be a robot...

[baddspella]

@philbx1 cool story bro -_- 

.... zZz

[VeXorian1337]

@baddspella Arduino - MCUs for dummies. 

[killerman4ever]

@VeXorian1337 I agree!

[Zwank36]

@philbx1 Don't shoe horn me with him please.

[philbx1]

@Zwank36

Hey, thanks for the correction pal. I appreciate that there are a lot of fine 'next-genners' out there.

[Gameboygenius]

@baddspella Sex on a stick is a fucking awesome expression. I do have a certain affinity for the expression, mostly owing to the fact that I first heard him say it when he tested the response time of the continuity mode a multimeter, and thus banging two acteal "sticks" together.

[thesurvivalist98]

Is it only for tradies, or can serious hobby user go ti?

[EEVblog]

@thesurvivalist98 Anyone can go to these events. The organisers like to promote it as "trade only", but putting down a fake (or any) company name and title on the form works a treat.

[Afrotechmods]

Man, I bet as an easter egg those scopes could play Starcraft 2

[nitrousoxijk]

@Afrotechmods And do the dishes AT THE SAME TIME!

[onlywhenprovoked]

god damn that touch screen scope is sexy

can only imagine how much they're going for.

[nitrousoxijk]

Ah i could of gone, Just need to stay updated with all of these events!

[tronixstuff]

So glad I'm moving from Brisbane to within range of Sydney - can visit events such as this without spending a fortune! Thanks Dave for sharing this with us.

[EEVblog]

@tronixstuff A permanent move? We'll have to catch up if you are in Sydney.