amusing product teardown video

...and it's not binary.

Yeah, the company is in Germany, but consider the company name (Esinomed -> medical electronics from China) and who might actually be running it.

You know this because.....If so, then I wish him all the best, but I salute the efforts of those who haven't given up trying to compete in the development and marketing of new hardware, no matter how crazy their assignments and bosses might be. This guy has no clue.

RL

It would have been interesting if he'd demonstrated any remaining functionality, but I thought I heard him say something about its origins a junk job-lot. It's normal safe practice to make sure these things get recovered and disposed of in a suitable manner.

Some companies I know have a dedicated warehouse for this stuff, with a minimum 6yr witholding policy before scrapping (metals-only under contract), just in case there's an IP or SRED query (legal).

I didn't see a charging port on the thing, but didn't bother running through the video more than the once. Wouldn't be much use without I/O.

When I run across a functional bug in a new product, hardware or SW, I try to work with the mfr. I don't make fun of them - except perhaps in the pub, with others who might appreciate the implications, with some sympathy. When it comes to intentional obfuscation in standards or processes, I have no sense of humor whatsoever.

RL

I think your comments are unfounded and harsh. Check out his website.

His work may not be to your taste and his opinions may not always agree with yours or mine but he's been going for many years now.

I'd say he's inspired quite a few younger guys to get into electronics. He's no doubt also reminded some of us older guys of some things we've forgotten.

Because he's blogged about it all the way through, silly.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Despite his 'unique' presentation style, Dave is pretty good at what he does and he's been doing it long enough to prove that he's a success at it. He's in the top echelon of money makers from his videos and has given presentations on that- lots of sticky eyeballs.

For example, I have found his videos on specifying production panels of PCB boards to be quite useful (all the gritty details required at the interface between bare PCB maker and designer). Like the size of tooling holes and tooling strips, fiducial details etc. It doesn't hurt that he uses Altium as well. If you are working (or have worked) in a big company that has a set of standards for that kind of thing, no big deal, but not all of us have that background. Previously, I would typically leave panelization to the PCB factory, but there is so much more flexibility if you take control.

I'd say he's a bit like the new generation of someone like Don Lancaster- he says outrageous things from time to time, but he really knows his stuff, and he (unlike Don) actively speaks to a world-wide English-speaking audience with all the modern tools such as blogs, vblogs, social media etc.

More power to him. You can argue about his opinions (he's probably like that), but he makes *technical* errors as infrequently as any other highly competent player. He's also been a contributor here, but I suspect the small and aging group of greybeards on USENET is of limited priority.

--sp

I was thinking about that, but in that case it would be a bit strange that the thing starts up with a program made by that same company.

When it would start as a plain Windows XP system without any special software, I would go for that option as well.

Esinomed spelled backward is demonise.

Well spotted.

Den torsdag den 26. november 2015 kl. 14.47.18 UTC+1 skrev Spehro Pefhany:

I like

He's got some nifty tips and tricks for production and test like

and has done some impressive reverse engineering

-Lasse

It's probably binary.

I'm a little backwards when it comes to video presentations. My main working machine doesn't have speakers plugged in, or Adobe flash installed.

Those I've plugged into on a toy machine, seem to take a long time to say nothing. A written transcript would probably prove this.

RL