Dave goes on holidays to Hawaii and rants a little bit about a variety of things, yet ultimately manages to tie Sex Toys, big Telescopes, Cable TV, NTSC, UHF Modulation, Renewable Power Generation, and bad product design together in the one blog. Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #61 – Crystal Oscillator Drift
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
Read More »EEVblog #53 – Mr Murphy and Microchip PIC Silicon Bugs
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
Read More »EEVblog #48 – Solar Power Hope
Can solar power hope beat out the engineering reality for Dave’s latest project? Was Doc Brown right? Solar Cell DATASHEET Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #28 – Product design drives me NUTS!
Dave goes nuts over dodgy product design decisions in Canon DV camcorders, Fluke multimeters, Timex watches, Princeton Tec LED lights, and PVR’s. And how cool would it be to design farting gnomes? Podcast: Download
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