Well that was unexpected. I'm restoring a valve radio and the IF was oscillating. The mixer valve's screen had become disconnected from its pin. This bodge reattached it.

Pretty impressive rolloff with the MAX291 switched capacitor filter #maxim #Filter

Epic failure of an LR44 battery. It's literally bursting at the seams #battery

Probably time to change that battery #Duracell #PP3

Trying to settle a crying baby while reviewing papers for European Microwave Week (EuMW) 2023.

Such a thing as fake passive components? Maybe not, but these inductors bought from eBay are incredibly lossy.

It was going to happen sooner or later. I knocked over my capacitor kit.

At a techSPARK AI event with Josephine Tsui and our 3.5 month old daughter. Got to start them young these days.

If I were to consider myself a control system, in most things I'm overdamped.

Tonight, my wife will ask me "how was work?" At least no one died today after finding general fuckwittery in the lab like this

It's the ones you least expect. This CAN interface IC seems to have failed on a TI dev board. It was dragging the supply down. I just desoldered it by chance and now we are back and running.

#MachineLearning and #ArtificialInteligence are transforming many aspects of our lives, but can they also improve #RF design? I am hosting a webinar to ask exactly that question in a weeks time: events.theiet.org/events/simplif…

At European Microwave Week (EuMW) in Berlin

I'll be chairing EuMC19 "high power devices and amplifier technology" at European Microwave Week (EuMW) after the coffee break. Come along to learn about the latest #amplifier technologies.

I've been waiting quite a long time for this, #udookey

For those of you who are #IEEE members and read Spectrum, you may have seen my article on a high precision digital clock. For those who aren't, you can read it here: spectrum.ieee.org/diy-ocxo-quart…

Listed on eBay as someone's DIY/homebrew radio, it's got a very unusual architecture. If nothing else a great component source for 99p.

With a recent move and other things I've not had much lab time recently, but still managed to bodge a new switch on to one of our baby monitors #repair

I've always been intrigued by how members of the church have historically been at forefront of science, Mendal and genetics, and now Anyos Jedik pioneer of #ElectricVehicles

How #charlesstross predicted the future wrong in his 2001 short story 2001. By 2024 WiMAX is pretty much dead and buried.