Dave breadboards a 1988 vintage Tandy / Radio Shack VCP200 speaker independent voice recognition chip from Voice Control Products Inc. Will it work after 27 years? Will it recognise his Australian accent? Forum HERE Radio Electronics magazine April 1991 MC68HC04 Datasheet M6804 User Manual Podcast: Download

Dave shows why Uni-T multimeters generally suck in this teardown (and a little bit of a review) of the $180 UT71E 0.025% accuracy multimeter with power measurement capability. He also opens the UT71A, UT61E, and compares the input protection and rating with a Brymen BM257. MAX6190 Voltage Reference OP1177 Opamp …

Radio Shack has gone bust and declared bankruptcy! or Tandy as it is known in Australia. Dave reminisces about the good’ol days Discuss HERE TRS-80 Model 100 teardown TRS-80 Model I teardown Forest Mimms Interview Dick Smith talk

Dave got caught out by thinking his EDC MV106 Voltage Standard had failed, when it hadn’t. Perhaps due to his excitement of being able to do a repair video on it. Another trap for young players. EEVblog #210 – Krohn-Hite DC Voltage Standard Teardown & Calibration Forum HERE

Mailbag time. Forum HERE SPOILERS: Atom Bombs Book Making of the Atomic Bomb BOOK The Bruces Monty Python Sketch Ideal diode (synchronous rectifier) datasheet Car ECU teardown PAL to RGBS converter teardown Pump controller teardown Meet Edison Educational Robot Casio FX790P scientific calculator pocket computer PAL/NTSC decoder Digilent ChipKIT WF32 …