VK3YE: Cheap and basic practical electronics
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Videos on basic electronic components, construction, techniques and salvaging.
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Electronics on the floor: Fun with variable resistors / potentiometers
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Electronics on the floor: The different types of capacitors
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Electronics on the Floor: An introduction to variable capacitors
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Electronics on the floor: Shining some light on LDRs
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Back to basics with flashing LEDs
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Electronics on the floor: A look at switches
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Electronics on the floor: Winding toroids made easy
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Understanding radio circuits through block diagrams - Part 1
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Understanding radio circuits through block diagrams - Part 2
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Electronics on the Floor: Five reasons not to use printed circuit boards for projects
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8 tips to build radio projects faster
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Building electronics from schematic diagrams
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Electronics on the Floor: Testing $1 LM386 audio amplifier modules
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Debugging an LM386 audio amplifier circuit
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Electronics on the floor: generators from wind-up torches
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Electronics on the Floor: Testing a hand cranked dynamo generator
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Electronics on the Floor: Automatic Gain Control with LED and LDR - Part 1
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Electronics on the Floor: Automatic Gain Control with LED and LDR - Part 2
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Electronics on the Floor: Automatic Gain Control with LED and LDR - Part 3 with S-meter
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Electronics on the Floor: CMOS gated oscillators and use in a radio beacon
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Reviewing a $14 electronic component tester
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Kerbside rubbish and uses for electronic projects
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Hard rubbish and possible electronic uses
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Electronics on the floor: Taking things apart
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Electronics on the floor: Making use of parts from old computers
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Electronics on the floor: Uses for plastic corflute (or coroplast) material
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Electronics on the floor: AM clock radio teardown
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Electronics on the floor Christmas edition: Circuit bending electronic toys
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Christmas Special: Retro Review Tandy/Radio Shack Science Fair electronic kit
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Build an LED voltage indicator for under a dollar
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Drone machine & annoying noise maker
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Drone machine and annoying noise maker MkII
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Strange sound effects with SDRs and wireless microphones
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Using salt and vinegar to clean corroded wire
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Measuring the internal resistance of a digital voltmeter
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Retro review and repair of Einstein electronic game
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Changing a quartz crystal's frequency with sandpaper and a pencil
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Filed up 4.92 MHz ceramic resonator shifts over 100 kHz
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Filing a 3.58 MHz ceramic resonator
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Don't trust all SMA - SO239 adapters
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VHF/UHF range tester uses a single Baofeng handheld transceiver
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Make your own capacitor with stuff from the kitchen
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Electronics on the floor: Pulling apart an oBike's electronics
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Electronics on the Floor: Nature Strip Electronic Junk Pickings 2018 - Part 1
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Electronics on the Floor: Nature strip electronic junk pickings 2018 - Part 2
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Electronics on the Floor: Nature strip electronic junk pickings 2018 - Part 3
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Electronics on the floor: Circuit bending three kids electronic toys
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Electronics on the Floor: Effects on a LCD screen with LF video signals
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Electronics on the Floor: Effects on a CRT screen with LF video signals
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Electronics on the Floor: 7 simple circuit bends for a hard to bend toy
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Electronics on the Floor: An oBike generator
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Three basic electronics books reviewed
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A drone machine, a TV and a radio
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Trying Tinkercad for circuit simulation and 3d printing design
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Look no base connection! Novel transistor flasher and oscillator circuit
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Electronics on the Floor: A box of hamfest freebies
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Electronics on the Floor: Five component two way morse telegraph
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Electronics on the Floor: Build an electronic stupidity meter
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Lower capacitance from a 2 gang variable capacitor
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Measure frequency with wood, wire and nails: Fun with lecher lines
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Electronics on the Floor: Fun with Neon lamps
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The magic TL431 voltage regulator audio amplifier driving a speaker
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The magic TL431 voltage regulator as a QRP AM transmitter modulator
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Electronics on the floor: Useful bits inside a compact flourescent light
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Receiving SSB on a 27 MHz AM CB radio
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Electronics on the Floor: VHF transmitters from crystal oscillator modules
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Electronics on the Floor: Simple VHF voice beacon with a crystal oscillator module
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Electronics on the Floor: World's simplest video transmitter using a crystal oscillator module
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Electronics on the Floor: Even simpler video transmitter with crystal oscillator module
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Electronics on the floor: Another simple video transmitter
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Electronics on the Floor: Can an FM bug transmit video?
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Electronics on the Floor: Calculate tuned circuit values in your head
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Audible RF sniffer using a 555 timer IC
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An electret microphone crystal set
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Frequency shifting a crystal oscillator module
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How to triple the number of HF SSB contacts you make
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Leafing through the 2019/2020 Altronics electronics catalogue
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All for one dollar from the hamfest
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All bands at once AM receiver
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Urban sounds from an induction loop audio receiver
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Fixing a cheap UHF frequency counter
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Two dollar teardown: solar powered transistor radio
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Australian Foundation Amateur Homebrew Giveaway
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Street finds 2019 electronic pickings from the kerb
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Fun with ring modulators for inverted SSB and crazy audio
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Simple two metre to VHF airband receiving converter
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Electronics on the floor: Make your own sliding tubular variable capacitor
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Mystery Mail? What's in it?
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Testing a five transistor audio amplifier
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Testing a five transistor audio amplifier
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Two capacitor top cut audio tone control
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Two capacitor top cut audio tone control
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Nano VNA spectrum scope: Here's how!
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Fun with cavity filters
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Off the street 2020: Electronic finds from the hard rubbish
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Building a crispbreadboard audio oscillator
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Getting shortwave on the Digitech AR1458 pocket radio
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More shortwave on the AR1758 including SSB amateurs
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Electronics on the Floor: Make a toilet paper roll variable capacitor
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Electronics on the floor: Another sliding variable capacitor
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Electronics on the floor: A look at Funway into Electronics Volume 1
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Funway 1 builds: Sound Effects Generator (Project 11)
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Funway 1 builds: Transistor checker (Project 2)
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Funway 1 builds: Light/dark indicator (Project 4)
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Funway 1 builds: The flasher (Project 5)
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Funway 1 builds: Water indicator (Project 3)
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Chopping board breadboard for solderless prototype circuits (and a 7 MHz QRP transmitter demo)
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Electronics on the Floor: A Japanese deer scarer and simple spark radio transmitter
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Inside a cheap USB 18650 battery charger
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Inside a Ukrainian transistor radio
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Sleuth RF with the Squeakie (audible RF field strength meter)
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Street finds 2021: A look at some salvaged electronics
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Street finds 2021: More salvaged electronics
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Drone machine sounds
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What have you found lately?
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Hear AM broadcast stations on your Baofeng HT!
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Tech tip: Knobs for trimmer capacitors
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555 beeping audio oscillator with just 6 parts
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Do THIS when building an electronics kit
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Circuit bending a cheap Chinese music module
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Testing (and breaking) a toy solar helicopter
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The variable capacitor in your pantry
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Dirty Stinky Source of Batteries
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Memorise your dB times tables
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Pickings off the street 2022: Anything good?
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Amazing things you can do with an old VHF TV tuner
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Hamfest bargains - 2022 Rosebud
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Radio Knobs (ASMR - no talking)
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Cable tie radio dial pointer
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Potato power! How many milliwatts?
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Christmas Review: Maxitronix 60 in 1 Electronic Project Lab
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Maxitronix 60-in-1 kit transmits 160m QRP AM (and more)
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See in the dark with a salvaged IR LED
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Quick moving coil meter tester
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Make a radio from another radio
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Receiving SSB on a 27 MHz AM CB (A 455 kHz BFO)
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Hearing 27 MHz SSB on cheap walkie talkies (BFO with 4 MHz ceramic resonator)
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Can a fishing rod winder drive a variable capacitor?
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New life for a street find guitar amplifier
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Measure inductor Q with this - Part 1
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Measure inductor Q with this - Part 2
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I baked dozens of LEDs: Did any survive?
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Three ideas to use BOTTLE CAPS in radio
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Retro Review: Science Fair AM-VHF Monitor Radio Kit #28-163 (Part 1)
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Retro Review: Making a Science Fair #28-163 VHF monitor receiver more sensitive (Part 2)
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Electronics on the Floor: Fun with bicycle dynamos
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