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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

In this supersized lecture length episode, Dave foolishly attempts to explain how to design an example product (the uCurrent) from start to finish. Read the FULL ARTICLE. The uCurrent WEB PAGE Podcast: Download

Dave hasn’t sold out and is still doing, well, the same old stuff a year later… Podcast: Download

Just a quick update on an exciting big change coming to the blog… (YES, it was an April fools joke! Sorry, couldn’t resist!) Podcast: Download

The ingenious EEVblog viewers have finally cracked the Rigol DS1052E Oscilloscope. All you need is a serial port cable and you can turn your 50MHz DS1052E into the 100MHz DS1102E. Dave shows you step-by-step how easy it is, and that it does actually work. Rigol caught with their pants down …

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

Another drive-time rant. Dave laments the difference between designing oscilloscopes and selling them. Seek and ye shall find. Podcast: Download

Dave does a teardown of the Princeton Tec EOS headlamp and mods it with a new Cree XPG LED. Throw in a quick reverse engineer of the circuit, gratuitous scope shots, torturing a thermistor, a practical demonstration of why you really do need 5 multimeters on your bench, and as …

Dave goes on a several hundred km adventure in order to completely destroy the Fluke 28-II multimeter. Short of blowing it up with explosives, will he succeed, or will it live to measure another day? Podcast: Download