1 Reverse Engineering the iPod Nano 6 LCD interface
First episode of Mike's series reverse engineering an iPod nano display, usually linked to show how much work driving a proprietary screen really takes.
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2 Field Oriented Control of Permanent Magnet Motors
A Texas Instruments presentation on field oriented control for three-phase motors, cited to explain how controllers command torque by steering phase currents.
3 #37: Use a scope to measure the length and impedance of coax
Shows how to measure a cable's characteristic impedance with an oscilloscope using time domain reflectometry, often cited when transmission line questions come up.
4 What your Differential Pairs Wish You Knew with Rick Hartley - AltiumLive Keynote
Rick Hartley's talk on routing differential pairs, recommended for understanding reference planes, return currents and termination at high speeds.
5 LTspice IV:Stability of Opamp Circuits
Linear Technology's tutorial on checking op-amp loop stability and phase margin in LTspice; people follow its method, then ask why their own simulations disagree.
6 Laser diode self-mixing: Range-finding and sub-micron vibration measurement
Applied Science uses a laser diode's built-in monitor photodiode for self-mixing interferometry, measuring distance and sub-micron vibration; cited when people ask about the third pin.
7 #223: Basics of the Gilbert Cell | Analog Multiplier | Mixer | Modulator
Alan Wolke explains the Gilbert cell as a multiplier, mixer and modulator; best approached after long-tailed pairs, and people build or simulate it from the video.
8 How to Decide on Your PCB Layer Ordering, Pouring and Stackup (with Rick Hartley)
Rick Hartley explains how to order, pour and couple PCB layers, with recommended four, six and eight-layer stackups that pair every signal and power layer with ground.
9 Raspberry Pi driving an Iphone 4 LCD
Demonstrates a Raspberry Pi driving an iPhone 4 screen through a MIPI DSI to HDMI adapter board; cited when people ask about reusing phone displays.
10 Does Kirchhoff's Law Hold? Disagreeing with a Master
Mehdi Sadaghdar challenges Walter Lewin's conclusion that Kirchhoff's voltage law fails in a changing magnetic field, using a modified experiment; central to a long-running debate.
11 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.
12 Razavi Electronics all lectures
Professor Razavi's university lecture series on microelectronics, repeatedly recommended as the place to learn undergraduate semiconductor and analogue circuit theory.
13 Interfacing a cheap phone camera module to a PIC32 microcontroller.
Pointed to when someone asks about wiring a phone camera to a microcontroller, as a realistic look at the work and hardware involved.
14 How to model a MOSFET using a datasheet.
Shows how to build a SPICE MOSFET model from datasheet curves, suggested for simulation work, though one answer warns that fitting from two points gives large errors.
15 Decapping ICs (removing epoxy packaging from chips to expose the dies)
Shows the process of stripping the epoxy from an integrated circuit to expose the die, linked to illustrate what decapping involves and how chips are encapsulated.
16 TSP #32 - Tutorial on the Theory, Design and Measurement of Delta-Sigma Analog to Digital Converters
A Signal Path lecture on how delta-sigma converters turn a one-bit oversampled stream into high resolution data, with the opening section accessible even without the maths.
17 "You must Unlearn what You have Learned"
Eric Bogatin's AltiumLive talk challenges inherited PCB rules, cited for why mixed-value decoupling capacitors are outdated with surface-mount parts and why signal-layer ground pour can hurt.
18 Introduction to InstaSPIN™-BLDC Motor Control Solution
A Texas Instruments video on driving brushless motors, suggested to people debugging their own motor controllers or replacing an off the shelf ESC.
19 How To Make An Electrical Arc Furnace
Linked as an example of a home-built arc furnace running from a microwave oven transformer; viewers note it is fiddly and raises real safety questions.
20 Keys to Control Noise, Interference and EMI in PC Boards - Hartley
Rick Hartley's long talk on controlling noise and EMI in circuit boards; cited on electronics.stackexchange.com for edge stitching vias and why rise time, not bit rate, sets bandwidth.
Hidden gem21 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.
22 DIY Custom LCD
Ben Krasnow builds a liquid crystal display from scratch, cited to show how LCD segments switch and as a clear example of spin coating a substrate.
23 Making 500,000 VOLT ARC with Marx Generator
ElectroBOOM builds a Marx generator for big arcs; shared for the basic idea rather than exact instructions, sometimes with a safety warning.
24 How to make Clear Glass PCBs
A 2011 cnlohr video showing a home process for making circuit boards on glass, linked as proof that unusual PCB substrates are possible.
25 Three-Dimensional Mid-Air Acoustic Manipulation [Acoustic Levitation] (2014-)
Shared as an impressive demonstration of acoustic levitation using phased ultrasonic transducer arrays, often cited when people discuss beam steering or standing waves.
26 What's All This Femtoampere Stuff, Anyhow?
A deep look at measuring femtoampere level op amp bias and leakage currents, which accidentally turned into a cosmic ray detector, cited for ultra low current design.
27 3D Tracking with IMU
A gait tracking demo using an IMU with published code, linked to show that position from accelerometer data is possible but hard to get accurate.
28 New Analog Circuit Design (By Prof. Ali Hajimiri, Caltech)
Ali Hajimiri's lecture series on analogue circuit design, highly rated for building intuition about amplifier design and semiconductor physics including BJTs.
Hidden gem29 Secrets of PCB Optimization - Rick Hartley - AltiumLive 2020
A long conference talk on PCB layout, grounding and stackup that practitioners cite when discussing ground pours and multilayer board design.
30 Ben Heck's FPGA LCD Driver Hack
Ben Heck reverse engineering a bare LCD panel and driving it with an FPGA, cited to show how much skill and equipment reusing a salvaged screen demands.
31 Making Microchips at Home - Cooking with Jeri Part1
Jeri Ellsworth fabricating transistors and simple chips in a home lab, cited to show it is possible but demanding, hazardous and not a beginner project.
32 Ipod Nano LCD series
Mike's multi-part series reverse engineering an iPod nano display, praised as a thorough practical lesson in working out unknown screen interfaces.
Hidden gem33 Whats All This Distortion Stuff, Anyhow?
A Bob Pease video on measuring and understanding amplifier distortion, including the trick of loading an LM324 or LM358 output to reduce crossover distortion.
34 CppCon 2016: Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17”
Jason Turner's conference talk writing a Commodore 64 game in modern C++, cited to show how well compilers optimise and how constexpr suits tiny targets.
35 Low End Tech - How to Setup Dual Monitor on Raspberry Pi
Shown as proof that two displays can run on an older Pi through a USB adapter, though it needs kernel changes and performance is limited.
36 MIT RES.6.007 Signals and Systems, 1987
Recommended as Alan Oppenheim's full Signals and Systems lecture course, about 25 hours, covering convolution and the foundations of signal processing.
37 106N. Bipolar Junction Transistor, basic operation, current flow properties, doping Profile
A Caltech lecture from Ali Hajimiri, praised for explaining why a bipolar transistor is really voltage controlled rather than base current controlled.
Hidden gem38 TSP #45 - Experiments & Teardown of the Teledyne-LeCroy LabMaster 10-100zi 100GHz Oscilloscope
A detailed look inside a 100 GHz LeCroy oscilloscope, showing how the front end splits and down-converts the signal, enjoyed as exotic test gear.
39 Pi SP - The Worlds Smallest Portable Raspberry Pi Computer in a GBA SP Case!
A build video showing an Odroid-W single board computer fitted inside a Game Boy Advance SP, often cited as proof that a Pi Zero handheld is possible.
40 Triple Pendulum on a Cart
An impressive inverted pendulum balancing demonstration, used to show what control theory makes possible and compared with simpler hobby versions.
41 No USB? No problem. (33c3)
A conference talk on implementing USB entirely in software on a small ARM microcontroller, cited when people ask about USB without dedicated hardware.
42 Open Source 8.5 Digit Voltmeter from CERN: Build and Test
A tour of CERN's open source high resolution voltmeter, valued for showing how careful system design around a standard ADC reaches metrology grade precision.
43 The most misunderstood concept in decoupling
Cited in PCB layout debates as the case against mixing decoupling capacitor values, arguing parasitics make a spread of values noisier than a single one.
44 Let's program an AVR manually
A demonstration of programming an AVR microcontroller by hand over SPI, shared as an impressive curiosity rather than a practical method.
45 Viewing an active electronic circuit with a scanning electron microscope
Ben Krasnow uses a scanning electron microscope to make voltages on a live chip's surface visible, linked when people ask whether electric fields can be seen.
46 Making an ARC Welder - Part 1 of 2
Demonstrates rewinding a microwave transformer for very high current; linked for the technique, alongside clear warnings that this kind of project is dangerous.
47 Razavi Electronics 1, Lec 1, Intro., Charge Carriers, Doping
Entry point to Behzad Razavi's Electronics 1 and 2 lecture series, a university microelectronics course that students recommend as a companion to his textbook.
48 Learn to Build a Portable Raspberry Pi (Part 2)
Part two of Ben Heck's Raspberry Pi handheld console build, admired as an ambitious example of portable gaming hardware and battery repackaging.
49 Ultralow Noise Tester: 9V Battery vs. 7805 vs. LTZ1000
Cited for a moment showing popcorn noise from a semiconductor and for illustrating how microvolt level readings react to the slightest air movement.
50 Kirchhoff's Loop Rule Is For The Birds
Walter Lewin's lecture arguing that Kirchhoff's loop rule fails with a changing magnetic field; cited in debates about what a voltmeter reads around an induced EMF.
51 Whats All This Scope Probe Stuff, Anyhow?
Bob Pease and colleagues discuss oscilloscope probing, including magnetic noise pickup in the ground lead; cited for its remarks on floating scopes and measuring switchers.
