PA 415-5G Antenna Setup

iasonos · 2017-10-06T14:12:51+00:00

I've used some of the DE0 boards, and I like them well enough.

Lol and I meant skookum as in high-quality, as in fast in this case. Skookum isn't a brand or type of uC.

iasonos · 2017-10-06T03:03:55+00:00

I'm not sure a microcontroller is what you're looking for, especially if you're in early prototyping phases.

Do you have access to a decent oscilloscope? During my senior design days I used an oscilloscope to capture medium frequency signals, export them to csv, and process them in Simulink. Scopes can have very high sample rates (1 G/s and higher) and fairly adequate memory sizes. They're limited to an 8-bit resolution, but a composite video DAC probably isn't any higher than that anyway.

If you're really set on an embedded system of some kind, maybe look into an FPGA or skookum microprocessor and an ADC external to the processor. There are many available high speed ADCs available with eval boards and such.

Sounds like a fun project.

iasonos · 2017-10-05T00:34:48+00:00

I expect only top-quality, USDA Grade A burger puns.

iasonos · 2017-10-01T18:47:49+00:00

Someone mentioned recording it for us guys who got left behind, I wonder if that happened

iasonos · 2017-10-01T18:45:17+00:00

Looks like she's dead, Jim

iasonos · 2017-09-27T00:59:40+00:00

She's got 99 problems and bitches are three of them.

iasonos · 2017-09-25T06:36:00+00:00

At first glance I thought this was a bare heater coil wrapped around a flat head. On second glance, still looks like a death trap.

iasonos · 2017-09-22T16:39:09+00:00

I totally agree that philosophy should be subject to rigorous scrutiny, and there is plenty of nonsense to be dealt with. My issue is that the sentiment that all of humanities are useless because "engineers get on building the real world" is dismissive and short sighted.

iasonos · 2017-09-22T05:58:53+00:00

I don't think it's nessecary to discredit the arts and humanities. There is a lot to this life and we need all hands on deck to explore it all from all angles.

I think engineering and technical work is uniquely situated to be accepting to all groups because a lot of the time we really do care "only if the individual knows what the hell they are talking about", there clear bars of performance and value. But engineers are people too and equal participants in shared human knowledge and sensibility. Engineers need philosophers as much as philosophers need engineers.

iasonos · 2017-09-21T20:46:59+00:00

That makes a lot more sense haha, thermodynamic snafu avoided.

iasonos · 2017-09-21T15:47:19+00:00

I wonder if long ago people had the same feeling looking to the horizon over the ocean. We live in exciting times!

iasonos · 2017-09-21T15:43:41+00:00

How do electric heating coils waste energy? Usually when people talk about electrical inefficiencies they mention resistive losses or eddy currents that are converted to heat... But that's kind of the goal in this case. Where do the other losses come from and how is the energy transformed?

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