The Engineering Inside Wireless Earbuds || How do Wireless Earbuds and Audio Codecs Work?

Branch Education December 13, 2020
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How do Microchips work? How does your smartphone camera work? How does Bluetooth work? At Branch Education, we dive deep into the science, engineering, and technology in our modern world using 3D animation and incredibly detailed models. Founder of Branch Education: Theodore J Tablante Want to support in-depth engineering and technology education? Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/brancheducation Modeling is done in Blender 4.2.3 LTS Eevee and Cycles Render Engine, Adobe Premiere, and Reaper

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Let's take apart these wireless earbuds [Apple AirPods 2] and see all the components. Then we'll explore audio codecs and the world of digital audio, and see how it all works. Check out https://www.pcbway.com/ for all kinds of PCBs, easy ordering, and quick delivery. Take a look at their PCB Assembly, for an inexpensive population of the components on your PCBs. For a holiday season discount, check out https://www.pcbway.com/activity/xmas2020sales.html This video explores the inner workings of wireless earbuds and specifically, we'll explore these Apple AirPods 2. We'll give you a general overview of how these earbuds work, and then dive into how Audio is represented digitally. We'll dive even deeper into Audio sampling rates, and audio bit depth. Finally, we'll give a brief overview of audio file formats. Do you want to support in-depth engineering and technology education? Support us on: https://www.patreon.com/brancheducation Website: https://www.branch.education On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BranchEducation/ On Twitter: https://twitter.com/TeddyTablante On Insta: https://www.instagram.com/brancheducation/ Or Join us on YouTube Memberships: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdp4_l1vPmpN-gDbUwhaRUQ/join Modeling, Animation- Victor Duarte (@victorvdr9) Digital Artist. http://www.victorvdr9.artstation.com Script, Editing- Teddy Tablante Twitter: @teddytablante Voice Over- Phil Lee Table of Contents: 00:00 - Exploring Wireless Earbuds 02:18 - All the Components inside Apple AirPods 2 04:41 - How Wireless Earbuds Work 06:14 - What are Codecs? 08:47 - Sampling Frequency & Bit depth 15:21 - Audio File Formats .mp3 .flac 16:46 - Wrap Up! Key Branches from this video are: Speakers, How does sound work?, How does sound travel? Erratum: Animation built using Blender 2.90.1 https://www.blender.org/ Post with Adobe Premiere Pro Internet References: Audio Codecs and Audio Data Converter Ics www.maximintegrated.com/en/products/analog/audio/audio-codecs-and-audio-data-converter-ics.html Audio File Size Calculator toolstud.io/video/audiosize.php?samplerate=44100&sampledepth=24&channelcount=2&timeduration=60&timeunit=seconds Dempsey, Joe. "How do MP3 and WAV Files differ?" Studio . www.dawsons.co.uk/blog/how-do-mp3-and-wav-files-differ Wikipedia contributors. "Analog Signal". "Audio Bit Depth". "Audio Coding Format". "Bit Rate". "Codec". "Compact Disc Digital Audio". "Digital Audio". "MP3". "Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem". "Pulse-Code Modulation". "Sampling Rate". "Sampling (Signal processing)". Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Visited November, 2020 #Wireless #Earbuds #AirPods

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