6 articles were written in May 2014:

A while ago I saw in the Dangerousprototypes forums a nice project: MrRef. Its a small voltage reference, intended to verify that a digital multimeter is still within its spec. Normally one would use either a real high-precision meter (like the Agilent 3458A) or a really good, calibrated voltage reference. But these are not exactly cheap, and probably overkill for a 50$ (or cheaper) multimeter. So matseng took a not so expensive voltage reference (a MAX6350, but it onto small breakout board, together with 4 batteries, and had something which is at least more accurate than the normal hobbyists multimeter.

Seeing this I did something similar - but I used a REF5020 from TI instead:

but it was not as accurate as I would have liked (the initial accuracy is 0.1%), and the 2.048 Vv output voltage meant that its just over the range for a 2000 counts multimeter (so it read 2.05).

So when I bought a new multimeter last fall (two UT61E actually), I looked into building a new, more accurate reference, with a wider range of voltages.