The configuration of the Blue Yeti microphone can become corrupted by mysterious means, destroying the descriptor used by USB for identification (amongst other settings) and preventing enumeration. Fortunately, these settings can be restored using a specific programming tool provided usually only accessible by OEMs.
This is going to be another entry in my Things I’ve Worked On series. This time I’m going to talk about one of the first things I worked on when I started at an instrumentation facility within a university. This opportunity popped up through a weird circumstance of knowing somebody who knew somebody, but I got the opportunity to work in a new facility at a university which was dedicated to developing new instrumentation in order to help researchers build hardware that would help them do good science.
