Tony Cox
thesoupdragon.bsky.social
Tony Cox
@thesoupdragon.bsky.social
CEO, UK Biocentre, Milton Keynes. @ukbiocentre.bsky.social
Vintage HP test equipment enthusiast. Electronics tinkerer and fixer-upper. Opinions are my own.

And with your lightsaber, apparently. :)
October 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Nice. I see what you mean about the two C/E amps - I was trying to picture what that looked like. A lot of switched caps!
September 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Ah, hence the tripler and doubler :)
September 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Franklin oscillator?

Oh no, I feel a weekend-shaped rabbit hole approaching…
September 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Assume that was the intention? - or just happy side outcomes? 😉😄
September 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
They pulled a similar rentware-only trick when they swallowed Eagle. But it turned out to be a good thing because it prompted me to ditch Eagle and move to Kicad. Never looked back (bonus: it imports old Eagle projects pretty well).
August 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
In fact, most time was not getting it to work - but making it work reliably. Finding all the edge cases, checking call returns, validating data packets and types - generally coping with a system that mangles data regularly.
August 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The tricky part was not getting data down, but sending a periodic timestamp up to each sensor and storing it. It took several tries with different approaches before I found a model that worked.
August 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
While you are contemplating that, spare a thought for those who are struggling with a 9 letter word that clearly doesn’t have enough vowels… 😉😄
June 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
assigns, against all people forever. In witness whereof I have affixed my seal to this my present charter. Given on the tenth day of January in the nineteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Fourth after the conquest of England.
June 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
to hold the said tenement with appurtenances to the said John, his heirs and assigns forever. And I, the said William, and my heirs will warrant the said tenement with appurtenances to the said John, his heirs and
June 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
formerly belonged to Henry le Walshe and afterward to Thomas, son of the said Henry le Walshe, and afterward passed to the said John by the gift and feoffment of the said Thomas, as is more fully contained in certain charters made thereof. To have and
June 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
ChatGPT suggests:

Let those present and future know that William of Cheltenham, clerk, has demised, granted, and by this present charter confirmed to John Tacyne one tenement with appurtenances in Westherdecote, which said tenement
June 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The ‘shop stinks now - a RIFA cap in my HP436A power meter decided randomly to give up the ghost after being plugged (but not turned on) for an hour. 👃🤷‍♂️
May 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
(And I need to work out how to turn off that orange LED which sucks 4.5mA continuously).
May 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM