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Office Tomfoolery 31 Jan 2013 | 07:18 am
So Monday at work I successfully pulled a prank on the designer for the part that is currently occupying the majority of my time. Concept, planning, and execution took about two weeks or so as I had t...
iPad Repair – Quick, Dirty, Improvised 27 Apr 2012 | 12:25 pm
Fade In… It’s the night of April 25, 2012. I sit in the big easy chair located in one corner of my living room browsing RSS feeds on my iPad and beginning to nod off. Deciding to turn in for the nigh...
How to Stand Out & Other Career Fair Tips 10 Apr 2012 | 04:02 am
A few weeks ago I traveled back to my alma mater to recruit some students for co-op and full-time positions available at various locations throughout my company. For the first time I was going to expe...
Surgeon – My Fallback Career 23 Feb 2012 | 02:25 pm
So I was knuckle deep in a crazy board rework today at work trying to fit a 1206 cap where it didn’t belong because it was left off the schematic and consequently the layout. About halfway through I r...
More Vintage Tek Gear 24 Jan 2012 | 01:38 pm
Back in October I posted about some old Tektronix equipment I found at work consisting of a function generator and current probe amps sitting in a power supply chassis. Well after a few more months of...
Jim Williams, AN13, & Op Amp Wizardry 1 Jan 2012 | 05:35 am
Not too long ago I was reading through one of Jim Williams’ famous App Notes, AN13, High Speed Comparator Techniques. It’s an older App Note that was published back in 1985 and I didn’t really have a ...
State of the Fake EE Union 30 Dec 2011 | 08:33 am
Well hello there. It certainly has been a while since I’ve posted. Sorry about that, between the holidays and submitting a draft of my thesis to my adviser before Christmas I was running around with m...
Expanding the Analog Geek’s Toolkit 11 Nov 2011 | 01:44 pm
So I spent the other weekend in Washington, D.C. visiting a friend for his birthday. While I was waiting for my plane to take off in RDU Alan over at Tektronix was kind enough to provide me with some ...
Vintage Tek Gear 26 Oct 2011 | 02:15 pm
I was poking around in the Design Lab at work and happened to come across a few pieces of old Tek Gear. There’s one FG504 Function Generator and two AM503 Current Probe Amplifier modules together in a...
Useful App Notes: Part 2 10 Oct 2011 | 01:03 am
AN104 - Load Transient Response Testing for Voltage Regulators, Linear Tech An app note written by the late great Jim Williams back in 2006 discussing how to test linear regulators by applying a load...
