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Doug Ford shows us how he designed his own 1000:1 high voltage oscilloscope probe. http://www.dfad.com.au and the Oscilloscope probe tutorial: http://dfad.com.au/links/THE%20SECRET%20WORLD%20OF%20PROBES%20OCt09.pdf Podcast: Download

Please excuse the OT post, but I need a favour from my Australian viewers. Can you go to www.youtube.com/my_speed and email me a screen capture (PNG is best) of what you get and also (importantly) let me know which ISP you are using. Telstra are screwing me and throttling my …

Let’s destroy some multimeters and shoot some metal with Doug’s high energy 4KV capacitor discharge unit. Visit Doug at www.dfad.com.au Podcast: Download

Drive time rant. Hardware vs Software, which one do you suck at? Podcast: DownloadPodcast (podcast2): Download

On May 1st 2000 Bill Clinton turned off Selective Availability on the GPS system and commercial GPS as we know and appreciate it now was born. A truly red letter day. On May 3rd 2000 Dave Ulmer placed the 1st Geocache or “Geo Stash” and Geocaching was born. Tupperware was …

Dave reviews the Canadian Advance Devices Smart Tweezers LCD meter. What will he find? Does it cut the mustard? Bonus LCR meter tutorial at the end. Podcast: Download

Dave cuts loose on the ridiculous battery life on the Nokia E71 mobile phone. The code monkeys at Garmin and Nokia get a serve. Podcast: Download

Drive time rant. Mail Bag time, Dave answers two viewer emails about career options, and manages a rant on the coming peak oil crisis. Podcast: DownloadPodcast (podcast2): Download

Reviews of Dave’s most used everyday tools. The Fenix LD01 flashlight to replace his ARC-AAA Premium, and the Victorinox Minichamp. Podcast: Download

An update on the Rigol DS1052E 100MHz Hack showing that the new 2.04 firmware can be downgraded, hacked, and re-upgraded again. Buy the Rigol DS1052E cheap: Podcast: Download

Just a reminder and for those not aware, I have an EEVblog Twitter account (@EEVblog), and am now making more active use of it. So those who want to hear my random Tweets (blog related and random rants), click HERE

Another drive-time rant. Dave cuts lose on people who email pointing out stuff he should have covered in the blog. Bottom line – don’t email, put it in the comments and let the community debate it! Podcast: DownloadPodcast (podcast2): Download

Who else in the industry can give you 52 solid minutes of beginner advice on buying a multimeter? Dave of course!, who started out wanting to give some “quick” advice, but as usual Dave likes to rant… So you get a feature-by-feature breakdown on what makes a good digital multimeter. …

Another drive time rant about the tools I use for video blogging, video formats etc. No electronics content, so if you don’t like that then don’t watch. Podcast: DownloadPodcast (podcast2): Download

Another random drive-time rant. Dave rants about how dickhead marketing changes can screw up your winning product. The Tropicana Story: http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/brandnewday/archives/2009/04/tropicana_fiasc.html and http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/linda-tischler/design-times/never-mind-pepsi-pulls-much-loathed-tropicana-packaging and http://www.johnmamus.com/designeverything/2009/01/tropicana-design-critique.html Podcast: DownloadPodcast (podcast2): Download