Electronics Blogs and Podcasts

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There are some great blogs out there for programmers (Joel on Software, Paul Graham's Essays, etc.). I would love to know about any similar quality content for electronics. Do you have any great blogs or podcasts you love?

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dupe? http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/4521/meta-share-your-favourite-reads — endolith, Oct 12 '10 at 06:25
@Endolith - Comments to that question now point out why it's not a dupe, and in any case, this question was started several months before the linked one. There's rarely a need to link dupes on both posts, just vote-to-close the newer post as a dupe of the older one. There are cases when the older question should be closed to leave the newer one, but those should be brought to Meta. — Kevin Vermeer, Jul 01 '11 at 19:50
Also, you found this dupe this long after it left the front page. Close votes expire, so if you want to clean up older stuff, flag it or bring it to Meta. — Kevin Vermeer, Jul 01 '11 at 19:51
@Kevin: Linked questions show up in the Linked section on the right, regardless, so it could be helpful to include it since they're related. — endolith, Jul 01 '11 at 22:29
@endolith - Sure! It's definitely helpful. I was just trying to understand your reason for posting "dupe?" instead of "Related:" — Kevin Vermeer, Jul 05 '11 at 12:55

Shawn J. Goff · Answer 1 · 2009-12-10T01:22:58.483

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Electronics Engineering Video Blog Podcast(eevblog)

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Be aware that David swears in many of his video blogs, so it may not be suitable for children, or even at work (without headphones). – Adam Davis Jan 04 '10 at 18:35
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ok I must break it to his fan base but my 6 year old neighbor girl could act much better than him. He seems so he is amazed by...I dont know...he is alive or whatever. But I could never take that guy seriously. Granted his material may be good (I would never know as he is unbearable) but hell he IS UNBEARABLE. – Rick_2047 Apr 24 '10 at 05:30
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Dave is just enthusiastic, he loves electronics design at work and at home... and it comes through in his videos. I enjoy listening to them in the background whilst doing something else. – Jul 09 '10 at 17:12
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ok there is a difference between enthusiasm and plain old over acting. And his way of making the videos would put over actors to shame. – Rick_2047 Jul 10 '10 at 12:47
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Absolutely, but at the end of the day Dave's an EE, not an actor. :) – Jul 12 '10 at 08:01
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Dave and I started a radio show together. We'll have a name for it soon! http://chrisgammell.com/2010/08/02/2nd-radio-show-with-dave-jones-of-eevblog/ – Chris Gammell Aug 03 '10 at 17:27
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@tronixstuff - Whether he is an EE or not doesn't do anything to mitigate the fact that his videos are just plain obnoxious. – Connor Wolf Aug 20 '10 at 02:30
Fair enough. However lately he seems to have toned it down a bit, and the blog #110 was excellent. – Sep 11 '10 at 02:35

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 09 '09 at 21:48

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Chris Gammell's Analog Life

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My first podcast: http://chrisgammell.com/2010/07/11/podcast-1-introduction-and-circuit-analysis/ Late in the game but I thought I'd throw it in there. – Chris Gammell Jul 11 '10 at 23:17

score 10 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 10 '09 at 14:29

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http://www.hackaday.com

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score 9 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 10 '09 at 16:24

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I'm surprised that nobody mentioned The Fat Man and Circuit Girl: http://www.fatmanandcircuitgirl.com/

I'd say it's more along the lines of Joel on Software, where they're really sharing a lot of information on things they've tried and how it's worked out, but the community goes above and beyond. It's a very entertaining and educational group.

answered Dec 10 '09 at 16:24

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Doesn't seem to work anymore? Just a landing page now... – John B Jul 15 '11 at 15:06

score 6 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 10 '09 at 15:26

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http://www.soldersmoke.com/

A lovely little ham radio podcast that I've been listening to for years. I'm not a ham radio guy at all, so there's plenty of interest to the general technologist here.

answered Dec 10 '09 at 15:26

score 5 · Answer 6 · edited Apr 12 '17 at 07:29

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I'm enjoying The Amp Hour Podcast

http://www.theamphour.com/

From Dave Jones (EEVBlog) and Chris Gammell

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listening to it now - it's great! Love the banter, it's especially funny when Dave tries to get Chris to say solder properly! [sorry Dave - "soder" is definitely wrong :)] Dave's random swearing and outbursts are a refreshing change to the usual grey drabness found in tech land – Jim Aug 19 '10 at 19:14

score 5 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 09 '09 at 23:47

There are lots of blogs that people use to talk about their own projects. They may not be "general education" but you wil certainly learn something. Some of my favorites:

This one is more engineering oriented - http://www.eevblog.com/

score 4 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 09 '09 at 21:49

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http://electricio.us/

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score 4 · Answer 9 · answered Dec 09 '09 at 23:15

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Jack Ganssle's column on embedded.com - and indeed, embedded.com itself.

Also, the collection of articles on his website.

Admittedly these are mostly (though not entirely) software-oriented - but specifically embedded software.

answered Dec 09 '09 at 23:15

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score 4 · Answer 10 · answered Dec 10 '09 at 15:03

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Very inspiring:

Make:Blog

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score 3 · Answer 11 · answered Dec 10 '09 at 01:19

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Although rather infrequent Adafruit Industries - Citizen Engineer

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score 3 · Answer 12 · answered Dec 10 '09 at 12:46

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score 3 · Answer 13 · answered Dec 10 '09 at 18:07

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http://tinkerlog.com

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Fireflies! Wow! I think I'm going to need a large number of chips and an equal number of ping-pong balls. (If you don't know what I'm talking about follow the link and look at the videos of synchronising 64 Fireflies) – Amos Dec 10 '09 at 20:47
Yeah, some kind lately soldered up 64 of them. Don't know if he is already finished ;) – Interactive Matter Dec 12 '09 at 14:27

score 2 · Answer 14 · answered Dec 21 '09 at 18:31

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http://www.hackedgadgets.com

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score 2 · Answer 15 · answered Feb 26 '10 at 18:12

I feel a little self-serving by adding this one, but I write it and I do try to mostly put in useful information without too much commercial type content. http://blog.screamingcircuits.com. It's predominantly about how to avoid common design and layout things that trip a lot of people up when they get to the point of building a board.

score 2 · Answer 16 · answered Jul 09 '10 at 17:13

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[self-promotion] http://tronixstuff.wordpress.com

answered Jul 09 '10 at 17:13

Very good blog! Congratulations! One up vote. – Daniel Grillo Jul 29 '10 at 20:52

score 2 · Answer 17 · answered Dec 09 '09 at 22:25

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Keith's Electronics Blog

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score 2 · Answer 18 · answered Dec 09 '09 at 22:29

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Flying Flux

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score 2 · Answer 19 · answered Dec 10 '09 at 15:01

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Not specifically electronics but plenty of projects:

Instructables

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score 1 · Answer 20 · answered Jan 24 '10 at 17:11

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I have a new Blog, www.mendingthings.com not a lot of content yet but I will keep adding. Someone has already mentioned HackADay. That is a great blog.

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score 1 · Answer 21 · answered Jan 24 '10 at 19:37

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I have collected many blogs about electronics over the three years and I have made an aggregated list of RSS feeds available through Google Reader. Most of the blogs in this list are already mentioned here here but you might encounter some less familiar ones. I have also linked this feed to a twitter account.

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Brilliant, thanks for this, I've just Bookmarked it. – Amos Jan 24 '10 at 20:22

score 1 · Answer 22 · answered Feb 24 '10 at 20:58

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Lattice Semiconductor (an FPGA company) has this blog.

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score 1 · Answer 23 · answered Feb 24 '10 at 21:02

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This one on reconfigurable computing in FPGAs.

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score 1 · Answer 24 · answered Jul 09 '10 at 17:06

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Here in Brazil we have the Newton C. Braga Blog: http://www.newtoncbraga.com.br/

There are lots of articles and tutorials.

It's in portuguese, but you can try translate it.

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score 1 · Answer 25 · answered Jul 12 '10 at 05:18

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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratory

Projects, electronics or otherwise. All very sciency.

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recipes are good too, plum chutney... – Jul 12 '10 at 07:59

score 1 · Answer 26 · answered Sep 10 '10 at 14:43

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The site www.newtoncbraga.com.br has a lot of circuits in portuguese, but with the Language Tool box it can be translated into english (or other languages). Try it.

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score 1 · Answer 27 · answered Oct 12 '10 at 02:42

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The Ben Heck show has turned out to be a really great show about hacking electronics. He digs into existing electronics and mods them for different purposes.

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score 1 · Answer 28 · answered Dec 10 '09 at 15:07

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Eric Archer's Site especially the Devices section.

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score 1 · Answer 29 · answered Dec 10 '09 at 15:10

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If you've ever wanted to build your own Synth:

Music From Outer Space

Check out the Virtual Breadboard Designer under the Electronic Bubblegum section if nothing else.

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score 0 · Answer 30 · answered Oct 20 '10 at 21:45

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Here's a very nice electronics blog: http://blog.tkjelectronics.dk/

answered Oct 20 '10 at 21:45

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