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EEVblog Had Claude Code Rebuild His 121GW Multimeter Firmware in C Overnight, and It Works Dave Jones of EEVblog has spent years telling engineers to be sceptical of hype, so it says a lot that his latest video ends with the line "software engineering is so over". He pointed Claude Code at the compiled firmware of his own 121GW multimeter and asked it to turn the binary back into C source code. By the next morning it had rebuilt both the bootloader and the full meter application,… |
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A $95 Hioki Multimeter Exists: EEVblog Found Solid Protection Inside, but 'the World's Worst Continuity Tester' Hioki is one of those Japanese test-equipment names that engineers associate with quality and with a high price, so a Hioki multimeter for 95 US dollars sounds like a fake. It isn't. The DT4215 is a genuine, Hioki-approved meter made in China and sold only for the Chinese market, and Dave Jones of EEVblog just bought one from AliExpress to tear it down. Inside he found input protection that is… |
