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2026 8

  1. Amazon Blink Gen3 Outdoor Camera Reverse Engineering
  2. Tire Pressure Gauge Teardown
  3. Secrets of the RA-02 Lora Module: Silicon Reverse Engineering
  4. ANENG M127 MULTIMETER TEARDOWN
  5. AIRTAG 2 Take 2: More UWB Teardown
  6. ESPRESSIF ESP32-P4 TEAR DOWN
  7. Reverse Engineering the Apple Airtag 2
  8. RASPBERRY PI PICO FROM ALI EXPRESS: REAL OR FAKE??

2025 16

  1. Ali Express Bluetooth Earbud
  2. Digital Level Teardown... Innovative Sensor
  3. Heat Blanket Controller Teardown. You say boring. I say a look at modern electronics!
  4. Shockingly Poor Engineering: Rain Gauge
  5. GPS Tracker Teardown: Packed with Technology
  6. Ali-Express Remote Power Switch
  7. Reverse Engineering: The 4013 Flip Flop
  8. Reverse Engineering a Toner Cartridge Chip
  9. Design Notes: Pump Filter for a Bubbler Fountain
  10. Solar Garden Light Teardown
  11. 3D PRINT: DESIGN FOR 1st COPY SUCCESS
  12. Reverse Engineering: Teardown of a Digital Timer. Technology hiding i...
  13. Cheap MR16 LED Bulb... any good??
  14. Reverse Engineering Technique: Backside Thermal Imaging of Semiconductors
  15. AstroAI AM33d Multimeter Review and Teardown
  16. Philips MR16 LED Turning Purple

2024 8

  1. Best selling lab power supply: Jesverty SPS-3010N
  2. Pi Pico 2 Extreme Teardown
  3. Teardown Tidbits: D-Link Power Line Adapter
  4. Ban this LED design!
  5. Electronic Vernier Caliper Teardown to Silicon Level
  6. Design Secrets of the Dewalt XR Brushless tools
  7. DeWALT DCS355 Teardown and Failure Analysis
  8. Plasma Ball Teardown

2022 1

  1. Raspberry Pi Pico W Silicon Level Teardown

2021 4

  1. Raspberry PI Zero 2W: What does the silicon contain??
  2. RFID TAGS INSIDE AMAZON PRODUCTS
  3. Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon
  4. AMAZON ECHO FLEX: MICROPHONE MUTE, REAL OR FAKE?

2020 8

  1. AMAZON ECHO FLEX TEARDOWN
  2. INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY: 74S04 SCHOTTKY LOGIC
  3. QUEST SUPERELF: ONE OF THE FIRST PERSONAL COMPUTERS
  4. UV-C STERILIZATION LAMP: REAL OR FAKE?
  5. 3 Cent Micro's Industrial Version: Padauk PMC150
  6. Industrial Archeology: the 50 year old serial port chip
  7. Annoying Blinking Flashlights and How to Fix
  8. Filament LED Light Bulb: 5 years and Teardown Time

2019 18

  1. DOLLAR STORE LED BULB
  2. Why does the4017 Decade counter have such a strange pin out?
  3. RASPBERRY PI ZERO PMIC
  4. Paduak PMC131 "high etf series"
  5. Padauk PMS171B-S08
  6. Padauk PMC 234 Y24
  7. PADAUK PMC156-S18
  8. PADAUK PFS173-S16
  9. Flappy Flower
  10. Padauk Processors PFS154
  11. 3 Cent Microprocessor Teardown: Padauk PMS150
  12. Touch Pad Teardown
  13. Reverse Engineering the Neat Semiconductors in a Label Maker
  14. CERAMIC PACKAGE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT REVERSE ENGINEERING
  15. Crystal Oscillator Teardown
  16. BAKU 858A HOT AIR REWORK STATION REVIEW
  17. Amazon Echo Dot (gen3) Tear down
  18. Credit Card Teardown: Secure Computing

2018 23

  1. Induction Speaker Teardown: A class-d amplifier
  2. Dashcam GPS Module
  3. Cree 2018 '60W' Led Bulb Teardown
  4. Feit Flame Effect LED Light Bulb Teardown
  5. Blinky ball: the art of disposable electronic design
  6. Cheap Scope Probe Frequency Response
  7. RF Explorer RF Signal Generator: 24 MHz - 6 GHz
  8. Espressif ESP32 Teardown
  9. Electronic Key Tear down
  10. HARD DISK DRIVE HEAD ASSEMBLY TEARDOWN
  11. Casio fx-260 II Calculator Extreme Teardown
  12. Electric Tooth Brush teardown: wait! much more interesting that one suspects
  13. DIGITAL WATCH TEARDOWN: THE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
  14. Microsoft "Intellimouse" Teardown
  15. HOW NOT TO BUILD A SEMICONDUCTOR LAPPING MACHINE
  16. The Very First Programmable Logic Device: Signetics 82S100
  17. PDP 11/24 MYSTERY CHIP: MC8641
  18. DEC PDP 11 / 24 CPU CARD: State of the art design from 1979!
  19. DRAM DIMM TEARDOWN
  20. Seattle Vintage Computer Festival Pacific NorthWest
  21. Pic Micro 16F636 Taking a Look at the Silicon
  22. Philips Filament LED Teardown
  23. Filament LED Long Term Test: 24, 000Hours Read Out

2017 35

  1. LEVITON LTB30 BUZZING TIMER FAILURE ANALYSIS
  2. Water Temperature Light Teardown
  3. Ecosmart A19 4 Pack LED Teardown
  4. Amazon 'Kindeep' G4 LED Teardown
  5. Teardown of an Optoisolator
  6. Noma LED Bulb Failure Analysis and Teardown
  7. Rework and Probe Wires for Circuit Boards
  8. SCHOTTKY DIODE CROSS SECTION
  9. nGEAR KVM TEARDOWN: REVERSE ENGINEERING A LOOK AT SOME SILICON DIES
  10. CCTV SECURITY CAMERA TEARDOWN
  11. Intellivsion "Play Power" teardown: repackaging technology into single bits of silicon
  12. 65C22: VIA.... a 6502 Peripheral from the long past
  13. 65C02: Tear down, A look at the CMOS version of the 6502 CPU
  14. Leapfrog Letter Discoveries: Tear down!
  15. DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR DS1284 DIE DECAP: A LOOK AT A 30 YEAR OLD DESIGN
  16. VICI VC60B+ Insulation Tester / Multimeter Teardown
  17. Review of a LED Light Panel for Videos: Viltrox L116T
  18. Tear down of a 2016/2017 CREE "75W" LED Light bulb
  19. Piezoelectric Buzzer
  20. Philips MR16 12V 2017 LED Teardown
  21. Cross Section and Analysis of a SMT Inductor
  22. Monoprice HDTV Teardown. Silicon, Antennas...
  23. A Look at Some Mixed Signal Integrated Circuits on a Cable Set top Box (Cisco CIS430)
  24. Geforce GTX460 Teardown: A look at the Nvidia GPU die
  25. 74HC4052: dual 4 channel analog mux/demux: Silicon die photo
  26. Tear down of a TDA7375 Audio Amplifier IC
  27. Microscope Automated XY Stage: 3D Printing test
  28. MOTION DETECTING LIGHT BULB WHICH USES RADAR!
  29. A Look at the Neopixel: Controller Die Teardown
  30. Random Chip Decap: the Unisonic U3525
  31. Have you cleaned your LED light bulbs lately?
  32. Optical Magnification Options for Electronics Work
  33. LED Bonfire Effect: taking a flickering "candle" effect up a notch
  34. Tear down of a Super Capacitor
  35. Tear down of a Solar Battery Charge Controller

2016 40

  1. Software Defined Radio IC Decap: R820/RTL2832U
  2. Bad Electrolytic Capacitor Teardown
  3. LED Candle Effect: tear down and Decap of a controller
  4. GBA State of the Art SoC from 2001
  5. XBOX 360 Graphics Processor (GPU) Die Decap
  6. The Silicon Die inside a Scientific Calculator
  7. Optical Mouse Teardown: a look at the sensor
  8. LED LIGHTING PANELS FOR DESKTOP PHOTOGRAPHY
  9. Decap of a Cell Phone SIM card
  10. EEVBLOG uCURRENT: DIE PHOTOS OF THE OP AMPS
  11. 3rd Party Apple Lightning Authentication Chip Decap
  12. mobeego One-use Iphone Charger Teardown
  13. NOKIA C1-01 CELL PHONE TEARDOWN: A LOOK AT THE SILICON
  14. Honda Key Fob Teardown
  15. Reverse Engineering a Simple Four Function Calculator: die decap
  16. CONTACTLESS TRANSIT CARD TEARDOWN
  17. FILAMENT LED: LONG TERM TEST: 10,000 HOURS!
  18. Monoprice Maker Select 3D printer: Crazy Cheap!
  19. Die Photos of the ICs on a EEVBLOG uCurrent
  20. Failure Analysis of a Dead MOSFET and a Power Diode
  21. Dewalt DW9118 Battery Charger Teardown
  22. Amazon's Right Angled Screw Driver and a Clever Suction Clamp
  23. Reverse Engineering a Circuit Board: Fiber Glass
  24. AMAZON'S CHEAPEST MULTIMETER TEARDOWN: THE DT-830B
  25. The Surprising Bits inside a fuse
  26. PHILIPS HUE CONTROLLER DIE DECAP: Atmel ATmega2564RF
  27. Philips HUE (2016) LED Bulb Teardown
  28. Cree Connected LED Bulb Teardown
  29. Reverse Engineering a PCB with White Solder Mask using GIMP
  30. Metallurgical Microscope Review: Ebay purchase, vendor microscopeind
  31. Philips T8 LED Tube Tear down: The most boring teardown yet....
  32. Extreme Tear down of a Digital Luggage Scale
  33. 48" T8 CREE LED TUBE TEARDOWN
  34. A LOOK A REALLY EARLY INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
  35. IKEA RYET LED BULB TEARDOWN: CRAZY CHEAP
  36. Computerized Camera Slider Build Log
  37. Measuring Light Bulb Flicker with Nothing More Than a Cell Phone
  38. Vertias (Lee Valley) Optical Center Punch
  39. Philips "100W" LED for less than $10.00
  40. Reverse Engineering an Arduino NANO Clone

2015 33

  1. Reverse Engineering the ESP8266 WIFI-to-Serial Port Adapter
  2. Raspberry Pi Zero Extreme Teardown
  3. Looking Inside a Silicon Die
  4. Filament LED Long Term Test: 5000 Hour Report out
  5. Buried File Server
  6. 100W LED MODULE AND A WATERBLOCK
  7. Awesome PCB Microscope
  8. Sunbeam Multi Pack LED Light Bulb Teardown and Review
  9. Portable Light Flicker Meter
  10. Frozen Time Photography and a Super Bright LED module
  11. Assembly Check of a Solar Motion Light Sensor
  12. DEAD LED DEBUG
  13. What's Inside? Honeywell 3 Axis Compass HMC5883L
  14. Poor Man's Metallurgical Microscope
  15. AIMOmeter MS8217 Multimeter: Fluke 17B clone with lots of problems....
  16. Filament LED Long Term Test
  17. BMP180 Barometric Pressure Sensor Extereme Teardown
  18. What's Inside: Temperature and Humidity Sensor
  19. Philips "Basic Bulb" LED: End of the Race to the Bottom
  20. Solais LR30 LED Bulb Teardown: Quality
  21. Joule Meter: Precise Energy Measurements of an Electronic Circuit
  22. Philips "Warm Glow" LED Bulb: Tune able Color Temperature
  23. LEDs, Temperature, Reliability
  24. Philips Slim Style '75w' LED Bulb Teardown
  25. Thorfire LED BULB REVIEW
  26. DIY PCB DRILL
  27. Filament LED: Silicon on Sapphire?
  28. DIY Macro Mode for a Seek Thermal Camera
  29. Bell+Howell "Ultrabulb": reverse engineering and industrial intelligence
  30. DIY RF PREAMP AND NEAR FIELD PROBE
  31. SUPER CHEAP PCB HOLDER: THE BAKU BK-687
  32. GE energy smart A19 800lm LED Light Bulb
  33. Seek Thermal Camera: The Rise of Cheap Thermal Imaging

2014 41

  1. 2014 Project Review: The Failures
  2. Electronics Thermal Design: A Handy Gadget, the Smoke Pencil
  3. FireFly YH "40W" LED LIGHT BULB TEARDOWN
  4. 16 Foot Long Flashlight
  5. LED Plant Grow Light
  6. B&K PRECISION 9110 LAB POWER SUPPLY REVIEW
  7. CREE 4 Flow LED Light Bulb Tear down and Review: race to the bottom, 2nd entrant
  8. Openbeam: Rapid Mechanical Prototyping
  9. Color LED Disco Light
  10. Philips B11 LED Candelabra Bulb Teardown
  11. Removing non Re-workable Potting Compounds
  12. Facto (Rona) LED Light Bulb Teardown
  13. Ikea Leadare 1000lm 2014 LED Bulb Review
  14. Trail Camera and Back Yard Wildlife
  15. Philips '100w' led bulb check in: color change
  16. Phlips BR30 SlimStyle LED Bulb Review and Teardown
  17. USB Phone Charge Monitor
  18. Robosmart Wireless LED Light Bulb
  19. NiceEShop 6w Recessed Led Panel: the future?
  20. Better Looking LED Bulbs: Nikko A19
  21. Hot Coffee Cell Phone Charger
  22. Peltier Junctions
  23. Drift Light: Self Dimming LED Bulb... rise of the smart LED
  24. Remote Controllable Color LED Bulb Review and Teardown
  25. Lee Valley LED Tape Lighting and Desktop Photography
  26. Filament LED
  27. "Philips" LED Bulb: Counterfeit or Chinese Domestic Market?
  28. Lemonbest GU10 LED Bulb Review and Teardown
  29. TM-902C TEMPERATURE METER
  30. Ikea Ledare 600 lm led bulb teardown , 2014 Verison
  31. CREE "100W" LED BULB REVIEW
  32. Sylvania '60w' LED Bulb Review and Teardown 2014
  33. Utilitech Pro (Lowes) 60w LED Bulb Teardown
  34. Philips A19 2014 version of an LED Light Bulb
  35. TP6100 "100 MHz" $9.00 SCOPE PROBE REVIEW
  36. Are Post 2011 Cars from Japan More Radioactive?
  37. UNI-T UT139C Multimeter Review and Teardown
  38. Philips A19 LED Failure
  39. Philips SlimStyle LED bulb: race to the bottom
  40. Seoul Semiconductor, ACRICH2, and "AC LEDS"
  41. Enviro Bulb

2013 16

  1. Switch Infinia Review and Tear down
  2. Computer Controlled Christmas lights
  3. Ikea 600lm LED Bulb Review and Teardown
  4. Experiments with Super Bright 100W LED modules
  5. GE Reveal & Cree TW Color Enhancing LED Bulb Comparison
  6. Walmart LED Bulb Controller De-cap
  7. Spectrometer for LED Bulb Testing
  8. Walmart "Great Value" 60w equiv LED Bulb Teardown
  9. Philips '100w' A shaped led bulb and led dimmer review
  10. CREE BR30 Floodlight Tear down and Review
  11. Ikea Ledare 400lm LED Bulb Review
  12. Sunsun "60w" LED bulb
  13. 10W Color LED Flood Light with Remote Control
  14. Ecosmart 400 674 tear down another led
  15. LED Bulb Teardowns
  16. Scope probe holder addtional details