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Dave checks out the new Fluke rugged 28 Series II Multimeter and compares it with the venerable Fluke 87 Internal photos: TopPCB1, TopPCB2, BottomPCB1, BottomPCB2, InputJacks1, InputJacks2 Podcast: Download

Let the microcontroller fanboy wars begin! Dave’s rather random rant on which is better, Microchip PIC or Atmel AVR. (Warning, Dave hates Fanboys) Podcast: Download

Warning, no electronics content, just a 30 minute filler experiment of Dave ranting about the blog. Podcast: Download

Dave explains the what how and why of measuring crystal clock oscillator drift over time. The Clock Drift PCBs Real data collected with the sine fit envelope. And results showing the same characteristic result over a slow temperature ramp. Podcast: Download

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Dave goes nuts over NBC Universal Pictures pulling his Flux Capacitor T-Shirt designs from Zazzle. Podcast: Download

Look, up in the sky, is it a hardware fault?, is it a software fault?, no, it’s a bloody FPGA Podcast: Download

Dave responds to the furore over his thumbs up rating on the Agilent U1253A Multimeter And it’s all about the love, really. ADDED COMMENT: Agilent make the exact same meter in an LCD version (U1251A or U1252A) with longer battery life. So you get the choice of display vs battery …

Dave reviews the Agilent U1253A OLED Multimeter and compares it with the Fluke 87-V in this epic review. How will it stack up? Check out Stormbyte’s video response to my review. Some good points here which I address in #57. Podcast: Download

Dave can smell marketing bullshit a mile away, so checks out the new RCA WiFi Energy Harvesting “Airnergy” device with some back of the envelope calculations. Marketing BS? or can it actually work? The RCA video is HERE and another interview HERE Podcast: Download

Dave goes Back to the Future and talks about how he got started in electronics. Podcast: Download

(Sorry for the off-topic rant, normally I wouldn’t post it here, but I know some of my regulars will be interested. This is an Australian specific social commentary, so those who are just after electronics, you won’t find any in this post, sorry) Dave cuts lose on the idiots behind …

Dave tangles with Murphy’s Law and Microchip silicon bugs with his latest PIC project. The PIC24FJ256 errata And that Jim’s Mowing Franchise looks pretty tempting. Podcast: Download

Who needs a resistor calculation tool? Well, if you’ve ever tried to make up an odd-ball series or parallel resistor values to a desired accuracy from various E series ranges then you’ll know how annoying it can be, especially if you have to to do it over and over. I …

Due to countless requests, I’ve finally got off my butt and made my uCurrent project article available for download. Download the full PDF article HERE