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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Dec 17

That was the old CAST simulator which had a bit too much power for its own good. We have a much fancier Spirent these day.

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Nov 16

I mean, I don’t need one… but that’s never usually stopped buying anything before.

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Jan 13

I saw the X-rays 😱 Yeah, I’ve had better ideas!

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Jan 13

I was travelling back to UK from conf in Germany many year ago. I was getting short of luggage space, so I used my poster tube to pack the bottle of beer I’d been gifted, my aerosol shaving gel and my travel alarm, cushioned with a few pairs of socks in between…

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Oct 19

It’s only a bad idea when at 1am you decide to give it a go

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Oct 4

Hopefully you can resurrect it!

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Oct 4

Haha! Sounds like it WAS a Metabo, it's now just crumbled up diecast/sintered metal 😆

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Oct 3

Ah, would be super tricky otherwise. Is it a Dewalt?

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Oct 2

Yikes! Assuming chuck is not threaded so you need to get the screw out at bottom of inside the chuck?

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Sep 29

Ours is definitely on another planet.

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Sep 29

Ahhh.. Have played with one on its eval board - was about £1500 plus I had to sign a bunch of stuff. Almost as much paperwork as when I got some HMC8415s ;)

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Sep 29

Hello, Computer? Transparent what?

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Sep 28

RFbeam make some nice modules, TI and Infineon make some usable board level things that aren’t crazy expensive

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Sep 28

It’s becoming crazy, I don’t want to be giving my DoB and inside leg measurement to be able to see some cool people building oscillators and fixing old test equipment.

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Sep 28

Hopefully the like minded ones eventually make it here.

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Sep 27

Yeah, hope so… the other place is getting crazy.

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Sep 26

Nice to see more and more familiar folks over here, long may it continue!

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Sep 22

I’m here for the circuits and the test equipment fixes

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Sep 20

Hah! Not quite that would get though the ethics panel 🤣

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Sep 13

Also worked well If you ruined you allotted piece of tracing paper

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Sep 1

Seen these things? Look quite interesting although quite spendy. TE830M1 www.te.com/usa-en/produ...

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Sep 1

Argh! Machine learning with everything.

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Aug 25

Must be a Bank Holiday coming up, it's just started raining.

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Aug 23

Call me a cynic but its all very convenient, almost too convenient.

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Robert Watson @robertwatson.bsky.social · Aug 22

I sometimes wish Boltzmann's constant was a bit smaller so I had less noise to deal with ;) As an engineer I find you need to keep up with physics/materials in order to understand how to exploit them in the quest to make a better thing/widget.

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