I also miss the "regular" videos. I gave up bemoaning the lack of FF videos when I realised Dave does them apparently as an adjunct to something else he was working on. If he has made a bit of effort to solve some problem he seems to exploit that effort as a FF video. I could be wrong of course but not completely wrong. I think this explains why they are never a regular video.
Fact #1: FF videos are not as popular as regular videos
Fact #2: FF videos are harder to produce than many regular videos, and also lead to more public demands and expectation than regular videos
Fact #3: My intention with the blog has never to be systematic or regular teaching resource, and that continues to be the case.
Add those together and you can see why I am not that focused on and dedicated to FF or other regular tutorial videos.
The FF videos were a trial to see if the concept would be popular. The answer is, no it isn't. People like it, for sure, but not as many as I expected.
I got all excited about the thought of a series of tutorial videos on LTSpice circuit simulation but that faded away too. I'm not saying Dave is a slacker, not at all. I am listening to past Amp Hour episodes and in one Dave pretty well conceded Chris is way more organised than he is.
It's about a) enthusiasm, and b) what you set out to achieve.
Chris deliberately set out to achieve a systematic and interactive learning system based on very well defined concept. And he did it (in part) deliberately to make it an income source.
Thus he is a lot more motivated and invested in such a concept than I am.
He spent 6 months behind the scenes working stupidly late night producing 170 or so systematic and sequential videos, without any satisfaction of people enjoying them or getting feedback. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
My video blag has and always will be "off the cuff" and the next video will be about whatever I happen to find interesting or be working on tomorrow.
Ask me what videos I'll do next week, and I likely can't tell you.
That is why I ton of stuff embarrassingly lies un-reviewed, un-torn down on my shelves, because I'm not a systematic kind of guy.
I could be of course, if I really forced myself to, but that's no fun. And once the fun goes out of it, that's when I throw in the towel and move onto something else.
Lately Dave has been discussing his plans to help get his lab better set up for smooth efficiency. After reading the forum post about the satellite that fell off the turnover cart and the NASA report summary I have learned the definition of proximate causes and ultimate (or distal) causes. The proximate cause is the bolts were missing, the distal cause is they didn't follow procedures to check they were properly secured. Anyway my point is that the setup of the lab is a "proximate" cause for apparent loss of efficiency. The distal cause is Dave is not as organised as he would like to be.
Sure, and I admit that.
But what am I to become, some super optimised robotic electronics tutorial production machine?
No thanks, that's not what I want to do.
Personally I think the Eevblog wouldn't be the Eevblog if Dave was chained to a ToDo list. In some ways he lives the fantasy life of being able to go into his cave and do whatever he wants. And all without adult supervision. 
Correct!
I only ask one thing of my viewers - don't put pressure on me to produce certain stuff, just let me do what I like, and I will continue to happily produce content.
And I've said it before and I'll say it again - it is IMPOSSIBLE to please everyone. Absolutely flat out impossible, no matter how hard I work, or how many or what type of videos I produce.
So I would be a fool to try and chase that.
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