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Big Clive is _the_ channel for teardowns of everyday electronic stuff. I am actually not that interested in this kind of stuff but somehow I still watch most of his videos.

If you are into more... entertaining teardowns you should have a look at AvE. Even if you don't like it you will still learn some useful canadian terms ;) (edit: just to make it clear, AvE is actually very knowledgable. His "boltr" teardown series of electronic power tools is most likely the most thorough you will find on the internet)

My third goto channel for electronic stuff is EEVBlog who also does amazing stuff. If you are going to watch one teardown today then please watch his rather famous video about the worlds worst tablet computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8MDCIlOEk

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> If you are going to watch one teardown today then please watch his rather famous video about the worlds worst tablet computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8MDCIlOEk*
I'm crying out of laughter right now. This is absolutely brilliant. That is, the teardown - the tablet itself is an abomination. Thanks for posting this. This channel is great and seems to have a lot of educational content besides teardowns too.

> the tablet itself is an abomination
Yes, but I find myself strangely impressed. I like to imagine someone walked up to an engineer and said "So, I just told client $foo that we can provide a tablet version of our PC software. They need it by end of week. That's not a problem, right? Because the CEO is fully on board with this..."

And then the engineer went home, got drunk, and talked his niece/nephew through building this on a bad skype call.

> My third goto channel for electronic stuff is EEVBlog who also does amazing stuff. If you are going to watch one teardown today then please watch his rather famous video about the worlds worst tablet computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8MDCIlOEk
Oh boy, that thing is a MESS. When he first opened it, I thought it looks like the sort of thing I'd knock together - not pretty, probably mildly unstable, but gets the job done. Then he took a closer look, and it's the sort of thing that wouldn't even be acceptable as a secondary school project, never mind a device to be sold.

Yikes... That tablet makes the cheapest, crappiest Chinese Android tablet I've bought look like an amazing feat of engineer in comparison (though that's probably mostly because almost all of them are slight tweaks on Allwinner or MTK reference designs - most of them, regardless of manufacturer look almost identical).

Just this weekend I watched entirely too many AvE videos and now I am fluent in Canadian.
His style is... unique. I think it's great but I'm sure it's not for everyone.

Mikes electronic stuff is also quite good.

Tesla500 as well

See also scanlime http://youtu.be/UTUYl-2g-r4

Also afrotechmods: https://www.youtube.com/user/Afrotechmods

You mean this? https://www.youtube.com/user/mikeselectricstuff

AvE is definitely one of my favorites. The only youtube channel I contribute to. I'll probably starting contributing to Big Clive as well.

Thanks, I'd not seen that tablet computer before. Incredible!

I like that the company that produced this apparently still exists.

Actually found that incredibly annoying. These guys managed to get something working, probably with very limited knowledge and funds, that deserves an award.
It just seems this guy expects everything to look like an Apple ipad when you open it up.

He definitely doesn't expect it to look like an iPad; he points out that he's cool with them cobbling together off-the-shelf parts like the motherboard and the touchscreen controller. His issue is with how badly things are botched, like soldering the batteries directly, and then selling it as a fully fledged industrial product. If you have "very limited knowledge" as your comment says, then you shouldn't be doing business. That's irresponsible. At worst, designing products without experience could lead to electrical fire.

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