Rant Brothers, Rant. Rant With Care. Rant to the CEO. Take This Dare.

November 2, 2009

The title for this blog is “borrowed” from a Mark Twain story and the content is borrowed—once more—from my favorite Oz video celebrity engineer, David Jones, who does the EE Video blog. In our latest episode, David rants about Microchip’s new PICkit 3 development tool.

That’s good enough. But Microchip responded. First with contact from Microchip CEO Steve Sanghi and then with an overly long but still funny video response:

So now you know what it takes to influence your vendors. Post your complaints on YouTube and don’t…hold…back.

Posted by Steve Leibson on November 2, 2009 | Comments (2)

November 2, 2009

In response to: Rant Brothers, Rant. Rant With Care. Rant to the CEO. Take This Dare.
Andy T commented:

LOL - destined to be a classic. Nice find, Steve

November 2, 2009

In response to: Rant Brothers, Rant. Rant With Care. Rant to the CEO. Take This Dare.
Dave Ja commented:

This is entertainment only the geekiest among us. What fraction of the global population has ever used a device programmer? But I chuckled. By the way, I've gone Atmel and haven't looked back. I used an Arduino to build a internet connected power meter that gives V, I, W, VA, and pf/angle. It worked just fine, cost almost nothing, and the dev tool were free.

About EDN | Site Map | Contact Us | Subscription | RSS

POST A COMMENT
Display Name

Before submitting this form, please type the characters displayed above. Note the letters are case sensitive: