David L. Jones (video blogger)

David L. Jones is an Australian electronic design engineer and video blogger.[1][2] He is the founder and host of EEVBlog[3] (Electronics Engineering Video Blog), a blog and YouTube channel targeting electronics engineers, hobbyists, hackers, and makers.[1][4] His content has been described as a combination of "in-depth equipment reviews and crazy antics".[1]

David L. Jones
David L. Jones in his electronics lab
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
ResidenceSydney, Australia
OccupationVideo blogger
Websitewww.eevblog.com
YouTube information
Also known asDave Jones
"The Crazy Aussie Bloke"
Channel
Years active2009–present
GenreVideo blog
Subscribers706,000 subscribers
(3 Mar 2020)
Total views145,358,421 views
(3 Mar 2020)

Life

Before becoming a full-time blogger, Jones worked on FPGA boards for the EDA company Altium.[5]

According to Jones, he began publishing electronic design project plans in electronics DIY magazines like Electronics Australia in the 1980s.[1] In recent years, several of his project articles appeared in Silicon Chip.[6]

Jones is also the founder and co-host of The Amp Hour,[3] an electronics engineering radio show and podcast.

EEVBlog

Jones' EEVBlog YouTube channel was created on 4 April 2009.[7][1] The channel features in-depth equipment reviews and electronics commentaries.[1] Jones has posted over 1000 episodes.

Products

Jones collaborated with a multimeter manufacturer Brymen to create a EEVBlog branded model,[8] and with Universal Electronics Inc (UEI) on a Kickstarter backed model.[9]

Batteriser incident

In a mid-2015 video, Jones disputed the claims of an unreleased battery life extender called Batteriser (later called Batteroo Boost after a lawsuit by Energizer). Batteroo, the company behind the product, disputed the arguments put forth by Jones and others, and published a number of demonstration videos in response.[10] In the wake of Jones' video about Batteriser, his video was "disliked" by a torrent of IP addresses located in Vietnam.[11] Other bloggers with related videos experienced similar activity from addresses in Vietnam. The bloggers involved have suspected that either a click farm in Vietnam was engaged to harm the reputations of those attacking the claims about the product, or that a single computer with many fake or stolen YouTube accounts utilized proxied IP addresses to cover its tracks.[12] Due to the anonymous nature of the attacks, it remains unknown who was responsible.[13]

References
  1. Osborn, Steven (17 September 2013). "Dave Jones, Host, EEVBlog". Makers at Work: Folks Reinventing the World One Object or Idea at a Time. Apress. ISBN 978-1430259923.
  2. "Interview with David L. Jones". EEWeb. 3 April 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2015. I started by taking stuff apart and trying to figure out how they worked.
  3. Price, Nan (April 2012). "Electronics Engineering for the People: An Interview with David L. Jones". Circuit Cellar. Vernon, CT, USA: Circuit Cellar Incorporated. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  4. Jones, David (4 April 2009). "EEVBlog". David L. Jones. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  5. Leung, Isaac (6 April 2011). "Altium relocates from Sydney to Shanghai". Electronics News. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  6. Jones, David L. (18 April 2009). "µCurrent...a precision current adapter for multimeters". Silicon Chip. Archived from the original on 22 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  7. Jones, David (4 April 2009). "EEVBlog About". David L. Jones. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  8. "EEVblog BM235 Multimeter". EEVblog.
  9. "EEVblog 121GW Multimeter". Kickstarter.
  10. Francis, Hannah. "Batteriser battery life extender: scam or saviour?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  11. Russon, Mary-Ann (7 September 2015). "Hackers spamming YouTube videos with dislikes using hijacked Vietnamese IP addresses". International Business Times UK. Retrieved 22 October 2015. ...received hundreds of dislikes on his 30 August video debunking a product called Batteriser, which claims to greatly extend the life of alkaline batteries.
  12. Stewart, Joe (3 September 2015). "Negative Feedback - Attack on a YouTube Channel". Dell SecureWorks Security and Compliance Blog. Retrieved 22 October 2015. Dave Jones' EEVblog, came under attack after having published a series of videos debunking a product claiming to vastly extend the life of alkaline batteries.
  13. Anderson, Martin (4 September 2015). "Youtube Dislikes for Sale, DDoS Style". The Stack. Retrieved 26 April 2016. Neither can one blame Batteriser, whatever one thinks of the circumstantial evidence...
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