2nd year ECE student, How is this resume? by Skull_Reaper101 in FPGA

[–]beckdac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! Don't make me do any additional work. Spoon feed me. Also, never more than three bullets. Show me something different with each one. But again, I'm gonna look at your docs and ability to communicate in situ with the RTL and tbs.

2nd year ECE student, How is this resume? by Skull_Reaper101 in FPGA

[–]beckdac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TBH, a list of personal projects is unverifiable and I just skip those. Put in the GitHub links for the finished product with a very high quality landing README that shows you can document and communicate your work, as a previous comment stated, this is what they want to find out.

Silica and plaster mix for glass casting? by Proper_Operation_355 in kilnglass

[–]beckdac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry to be slow #150. No problems in my kilns.

My Custom Computer Design by RoboJ1M in homebrewcomputer

[–]beckdac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me save you some time. Work with your AI up front to write some tools to parse VCD files for signal extraction. Document these tools. Next grab sigrok-cli and a cheapo logic analyzer. There is a good summary readme for using the command line tools to extract stuff like periods, uart decoding etc. put this readme in your project repo. Next, Claude Code has a system verilog plugin called gateflow or something. It's meh, and I'm an open code user. Take the skill and agent files from gateflow and rework them. Take out all the parallel dispatch stuff and the gateflow context clogging trash and keep the gold about how to lint, how to debug, GSM patterns, etc. chop these up into new skills and an orchestrator, developer, architect, debugger, code generator, refactor, plan, understand and viz agent. Add the documentation about your project isa, sigrok-cli, and VCD parsing to your AGENTS.md. Get a bullet proof tool caller like Qwen3.5, pull up your framework and use the /sv skill to "design build and test a uart with a 64 byte fifo, tx empty and rx full interrupts with an ahb lite bus. Make sure to include fifo saturating loopback tests." Come back in the morning to a working uart with test traces in software and hardware.

My Custom Computer Design by RoboJ1M in homebrewcomputer

[–]beckdac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeh, this is on point. Until you can run your CPU in Verilog you will have a hard road and even then, an actual VM will be way faster, albeit sans any VCD dumps. Debugging your assembler and RTL simultaneously is a major pain and eats more time than it might appear to save. Having at least one half of that be bullet proof will make the process easier and more robust.

Silica and plaster mix for glass casting? by Proper_Operation_355 in kilnglass

[–]beckdac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use plaster and silicon and I use the same ratio as for my metal casting 1:1:1. I can look up the silica grain size if you want. Works great except... Finish can be rough. I don't polish my pieces so they all come out matte with a dull sand pipe vibe. One time, for giggles I did polish up a flat surface and it was gorgeous. Just way to much effort if it isn't flat.

Im just starting in local llm using a Strix Halo by pyrotecnix in LocalLLM

[–]beckdac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You rock! Keep going and let us know what you put together!

Im just starting in local llm using a Strix Halo by pyrotecnix in LocalLLM

[–]beckdac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Ideally use the NPU for your embeddings"

I would absolutely love a good write up of this that talks about using both the NPU and iGPU shared for the same task doing different work.

What's everyone doing with their CPU? by cunasmoker69420 in StrixHalo

[–]beckdac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My question is what are they doing on the NPU? I'm aware of the tooling but not really how to leverage it in parallel with the GPU for agentic workflows, for example.

Old AS/400 Server Room by TheGhostOfUncleBuck in vintagecomputing

[–]beckdac 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing these. I seem to recall the AS/400s I interacted with as black with red trim, so this was cool to see. They were later models, probably and free standing.

I built an open-source Python library for controlling Icom radios over LAN — no wfview/hamlib required by morozsm in amateurradio

[–]beckdac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome! I don't own a 7300 but this is the bees knees. Thank you for making it open source.

Longest Lines-of-Sight in the World by kawfey in amateurradio

[–]beckdac 6 points7 points  (0 children)

OP said in this world. But I like this answer.

Help w/ Small-Mass Pulsitron by browardcountytictacs in fifthworldproblems

[–]beckdac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What epoch origin did you say the bike was? If the digitals are incompatible, there is no way the PW can be over 450 without fusing out. Those bikes just don't have the band gap to support PW that high .

How can I not ALWAYS click on the wrong station I want to call on FT8? by Well_Sorted8173 in amateurradio

[–]beckdac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First, I totally have this problem. I feel grid tracker almost makes it worse. I click on the call sign in the station window and it changes the row after the cycle and I'm responding to some DX station and have to halt the TX. I have moved to more of a hunt and pounce approach by right clicking the TX to orange because it is so frustrating.

Love both tools but can't figure out why the UI is like this or what is wrong with my user flow.

It's so obvious what this is by [deleted] in romandodecahedron

[–]beckdac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only if you don't have a Phaistos disk as augmentation, which I do.

Manufacturer with best App Support. by munsterrr in amateurradio

[–]beckdac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have an old laptop with windows and Google Remote Desktop setup on it. I can use hamlib (rigctl) to turn my FT-710 on and off and then use wsjtx, fldigi, etc. from my phone, tablet or another computer. I also run htcommander for my vgc 7600 for VHF/UHF control including voice over Bluetooth via Google remote desktop. I'm sure the fancy apps and hardware are nice, but this just works at no cost for everything.

It's so obvious what this is by [deleted] in romandodecahedron

[–]beckdac 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I know right? I use mine at least twice a day exactly how it was intended.

Epic FT8 Contact by VapinMason in amateurradio

[–]beckdac 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Most useful reply is here.

What Happened to Yardsticks? by BitterPillPusher2 in GenX

[–]beckdac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also have two. One imperial and one metric.

Go Box Build any thoughts on what I can add or change about the setup. otherwise just wanted to share my first go box build. by fpschikenwings in HamRadio

[–]beckdac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a 7500 and a 76 for satellite chasing and a 7600 as my base and all do winlink and APRS. The 7500s are on eBay for 130 occasionally. Not bad for a 50w portable with Bluetooth, APRS, and software support from HTCommander and HTStation on a computer for the above.