A couple of years ago, regular readers may recall I took a look at the Mustool MT8206 2-in-1 Multimeter and Oscilloscope. Well, things change and now there is the improved MT8208 2-in-1 Multimeter and Oscilloscope – how’s that for a dynamic change of name 🙂 They have of course improved…
Month: August 2020
Blitzwolf BW-S16 75W PD Charger
To give this beauty its full title – . Hard to believe our local stores are still selling USB chargers that are not even Quick-charge, never mind PD (Power Delivery). These days, such terms are mandatory to gain my interest. This monster from Blitzwolf comes with 18 month warranty. The…
Single-Use Disposable Masks
Ok, I know, this is a tech blog – but given the heat we have in Southern Spain right now, sometimes the best thing to do is either soak in the pool, write reviews or better – both at the same time. Right now I’m catching up with a backlog…
FriendlyArm R2S and NEO3
After writing a less than stellar report on the original FriendlyArm Rockchip RK3328-based R2S and giving the board to my Italian friend Antonio, he managed some success with the board but not without it suffering excessive heat. Well, it looks like the company have been working on that and have…
Argon ONE Case for Raspberry Pi 4 Updated
The Argon ONE case is very pretty (but then it is not cheap so you’d expect that). It has variable control over the built-in fan and I had to ramp up the settings as the fan was initially off even though the case was very warm – now the whole…
SSD Cloning on Raspberry Pi 4 Updated
The subject of this blog entry is, in the main, about cloning (for backup mainly) from one Solid State Drive (SSD) on the Raspberry Pi 4 (RPi4) to another SSD. Why SSD? These “drives” are MANY times faster than SD, as low as twice the price of SDs and are…
Alexa Comprehension Issues
I’ve been meaning to write this down for some time. Has anyone else noticed similar issues with Alexa? I just said “Alexa, turn on, erm, mancave” – where “mancave” is a group of lights. The “erm” threw Alexa off-course as you’d expect. “What would you like me to turn on?”…