David L. Jones is an Australian video blogger.[2][3] He is the founder and host of EEVBlog[4] (Electronics Engineering Video Blog), a blog and YouTube channel targeting electronics engineers, hobbyists, hackers, and makers.[2][5] His content has been described as a combination of "in-depth equipment reviews and crazy antics".[2]
David L. Jones | |||||||
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Personal information | |||||||
Nationality | Australian | ||||||
Occupation | Video blogger | ||||||
Website | www | ||||||
YouTube information | |||||||
Also known as | Dave Jones "The Crazy Aussie Bloke" | ||||||
Channel | |||||||
Years active | 2009–present | ||||||
Genre | Video blog | ||||||
Subscribers | 948,000 subscribers[1] (1 October 2024) | ||||||
Total views | 207 million views[1] (1 October 2024) | ||||||
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Life
Before becoming a full-time blogger, Jones worked on FPGA boards for the EDA company Altium.[6]
According to Jones, he began publishing electronic design project plans in electronics DIY magazines like Electronics Australia in the 1980s.[2] In recent years,[when?] several of his project articles appeared in Silicon Chip.[7]
Jones is also the founder and co-host of The Amp Hour,[4] an electronics engineering radio show and podcast.
EEVBlog
Jones' EEVBlog YouTube channel was created on 4 April 2009.[8][2] The channel features in-depth equipment reviews and electronics commentaries.[2] Jones has posted over 1000 episodes.
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.[9] In the wake of Jones' video about Batteriser, his video was "disliked" by a torrent of IP addresses located in Vietnam.[10] 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.[11] Due to the anonymous nature of the attacks, it remains unknown who was responsible.[12]
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