Daily Reading (03 May 2015)

[nanila]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

Comments

[thamesynne]

About half a dozen articles in the Grauniad explaining why the Tories are screwed (cheering, but play to your audience a bit more, why don't you?), bits of code and documentation for a couple of dsPIC Forths, and a lot of "reviews" of the DSO Nano pocket oscilloscope that all amount to "don't buy it, it's a piece of crap, if you aren't looking at at least a [scope an order of magnitude more expensive] you might as well get out of electronics". Which is disheartening :(

[nanila]

Unless you're lucky enough to have a source for an old high-end-in-its-day one, it doesn't really seem possible to get oscilloscopes on the cheap. :/

[thamesynne]

there used to be a little shop next to leeds railway station that sold all kinds of random electronics bits. used to have literal columns of vintage tube scopes. i have no idea if it's still there (not been to leeds, i think, since i moved away from west yorkshire) but i wish i'd picked one up when i had the chance!