Entry-Level Oscilloscopes
It’s time to shop for a new oscilloscope. My trusty HP1631d has served me well, but it’s almost 30 years old, and it’s not even really an oscilloscope but a logic analyzer. This boat anchor is big, heavy, loud, cumbersome,…
Category Bit Bucket
Miscellaneous distractions and diversions.
Inside Vintage Electronic Toys – How Speak & Spell Works
The 1970s were a great time to be a geeky kid, thanks to the introduction of the first digital electronic toys. With their beeping songs and blinking lights, who could resist them? Recently I decided to take a trip down…
Raspberry Pi
A friend from work gifted me a Raspberry Pi Model B. I was generally familiar with the RPi, but hadn’t had a chance to look at it in detail before now. The specs are impressive: a 700MHz 32-bit ARM CPU,…
A New Kind of Video Game Console
A few months ago I posted a long essay on my professional future. Should I try to make a career of BMOW blogging? Find an electronics industry job? Return to video game development? Launch a start-up company? Since then I’ve…
Procrastinating the Future
Frequent BMOW readers have doubtless noticed the lack of project progress lately. I could claim I’ve been trapped under a piece of heavy furniture, but the truth is I’ve been procrastinating while trying to set a new course for my…
Extreme Product Testing
Have you always wondered what would happen to a Backwoods Logger Mini if it were crushed under your own body? No, neither have I, but today I found out anyway. I took out one of the newly-assembled Mini prototypes for…
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