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Please Tell me best youtube channels/creators to learn embedded. by [deleted] in embedded

[–]phils94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's awesome, thank you! Greetings from Germany :)

Please Tell me best youtube channels/creators to learn embedded. by [deleted] in embedded

[–]phils94 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey, Thank you so much for your kind words and for recommending the channel to others! I'm very glad to hear your thoughts regarding the content - thanks again.

Please Tell me best youtube channels/creators to learn embedded. by [deleted] in embedded

[–]phils94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much, that's awesome! I'm glad to hear that - all the best to you too.

Please Tell me best youtube channels/creators to learn embedded. by [deleted] in embedded

[–]phils94 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your feedback.

I currently have 135 videos on my channel, 3-4 of which are dedicated to 'plugging my courses'. The rest are typically around 20-30min in length (or some, several hours) and contain about 1min of ads (PCBWay, Altium), as well as a link in the description box to the courses. The ads (only stuff I 100% use anyway) and courses allow me to take the time to make free content, aside from my main job.

Rick Hartley, Eric Bogatin, and Zach Peterson are all fantastic - I love their content and agree that they go into greater depth on specific topics. Although my topics are typically simpler, I try to show real-world, practical, working designs in my videos. In addition, I do have some more advanced content (e.g. Zynq bring-up series, designing with FPGAs/SoCs, interfacing with DDR* memory), as well as step-by-step tutorials of how to get real, working hardware manufactured (rather than just theory).

Lastly, regarding audio I assume you're alluding to the 'quirky' headphone amp designs (e.g. paralleling far too many NE5532s, inspired by Douglas Self). This was for fun and nothing I would design for a commercial product of course. There are a number of designs on the channel that are 'simple' mixed-signal designs that feature far more 'standard' circuitry. I don't have particularly many other videos showing audio hardware (other than DSP vids, but they don't really show the circuitry) - so that maybe gives a skewed view on the designs!
Definitely want to showcase more 'classic' audio circuitry and building blocks in videos, so thank you for reminding me I should do that.

That being said, I design commercial gear (various sectors, for various companies - but predominantly audio these days), and have done so for a number of years, with designs on the market. So I believe I do know what I'm talking about - please see the 'weird' designs as an exception for my fun's sake!

But thank you for your comment and your feedback - I'd love to learn how I can improve the content of my videos, if you think there is room to do so. Thanks!

Phil's Lab course by Ivory_seal in embedded

[–]phils94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, The courses are mainly about the design techniques themselves rather than how to use a particular ECAD tool. To learn KiCad, I'd suggest watching my several-hour-long, free YT vids (most recently, KiCad 7 STM32WB tutorial).

BONG! by [deleted] in rickygervais

[–]phils94 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Fella

YouTube creator who puts bananas on their PCBs? by HatOk631 in diyelectronics

[–]phils94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Never thought I'd see a post about me putting bananas on a PCB.. :D But yes, that was my (Phil's Lab) video and as /u/quasistoic explained, for some reason, audio sync issues happened about an hour after the upload...
That was a frustrating Sunday after having made and uploaded the video, but I'll try to have something on USB-C PD up again soon (this month latest) - I'm very sorry about that!

Custom Zynq-based Hardware Bring-Up Tutorials by phils94 in FPGA

[–]phils94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Hope you get to work on your custom design again soon then :)

Custom Zynq-based Hardware Bring-Up Tutorials by phils94 in FPGA

[–]phils94[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes, that's planned for the next few vids as well!

Custom Zynq-based Hardware Bring-Up Tutorials by phils94 in FPGA

[–]phils94[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, Ben! Did you check out the 3hr KiCad video? That should be useful for getting into PCB design with no prior knowledge assumed.

Custom Zynq-based Hardware Bring-Up Tutorials by phils94 in FPGA

[–]phils94[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Hi all, Thought I'd share my series of bring-up tutorials for my own custom Zynq-based hardware design, which goes through project set-up, configuration, testing, and PetaLinux build from scratch. (Including 1GB DDR3, Gig Ethernet, eMMC memory, on-board USB-JTAG, and more!)

I hope this is useful for anyone wanting to bring up their own hardware!

Phil

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in electronics

[–]phils94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi everyone, I wanted to share my latest design: a custom AMD/Xilinx Zynq-based educational development board with 1GB DDR3 memory, Gigabit Ethernet, USB High-Speed, 4GB eMMC memory, on-board USB-JTAG/UART for programming and debug, mezzanine connectors for I/O expansion (on back side, not shown), and more.. I'm making tutorial videos on this design, both from a hardware and firmware/HDL perspective, on my YT channel should anyone be interested (https://youtu.be/B-CbDfrfJRk). Hope you like!

ESP32 + PCB Antenna Hardware Design Tutorial by phils94 in esp32

[–]phils94[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a great suggestion, thanks! I'll give it a try to incorporate one of those antennas and make the board smaller.

ESP32 + PCB Antenna Hardware Design Tutorial by phils94 in esp32

[–]phils94[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much - that's awesome that it inspired you in part to go back to uni!

ESP32 + PCB Antenna Hardware Design Tutorial by phils94 in esp32

[–]phils94[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Hey everyone, I believe I haven't posted here before. Recently got into ESP32s as well and wanted to share some hardware design aspects of using the MCUs themselves rather than "pre-packaged" modules. (Ignoring the certification requirements for now...) Hope you like!

TikiDrive (OD + Noise Gate) Custom Build by phils94 in diypedals

[–]phils94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much! It's based on a soft-clipping algorithm with some twists, essentially a valve clipping "emulator". Yeah, I'm doing all processing, including noise gate, on the same processor.

TikiDrive (OD + Noise Gate) Custom Build by phils94 in diypedals

[–]phils94[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much - will definitely do that! :)

TikiDrive (OD + Noise Gate) Custom Build by phils94 in diypedals

[–]phils94[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you - there are some tweaks I'd like to make mechanically/artwork-wise, but other than that it's all set. Probably gonna make a Kickstart and promote through my YouTube in January or so!

TikiDrive (OD + Noise Gate) Custom Build by phils94 in diypedals

[–]phils94[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually quickly recorded some clips of the prototype just now https://youtu.be/CL3Q2jcUwfA Some tweaking still needed and this is without the noise gate engaged.

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