Re: gEDA-user: Looking for a project

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 08:49 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: > al davis wrote: > > > FM stereo generator. The broadcast ones are very expensive. > > You can buy one made for a lab cheap. It sort of works. A > > real broadcast one is simple but much more expensive. > > If anyone feels like buildin

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Jason Aron wrote: > Hey anyone I've been using geda for about six months and I think I'm > about done with my current project (I get the final boards next > week). So while I'm waiting for my boards, I'm thinking about what > I'm going to do next... and I'm drawing a complete blank. Does > anyon

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for a project

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 22:49, Dan McMahill wrote: > al davis wrote: > > > FM stereo generator. The broadcast ones are very expensive. > > You can buy one made for a lab cheap. It sort of works. A > > real broadcast one is simple but much more expensive. > > If anyone feels like building one

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al davis wrote: FM stereo generator. The broadcast ones are very expensive. You can buy one made for a lab cheap. It sort of works. A real broadcast one is simple but much more expensive. If anyone feels like building one of these, I can give some extra guidance on analog implementations

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On Tuesday 03 April 2007 02:41, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote: > On 4/3/07, al davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you look at the designs of older ones, you will see that > > they did it with 2 or 3 tubes.   The basic design can be > > updated to use today's components, with significantly

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On 4/3/07, al davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you look at the designs of older ones, you will see that they did it with 2 or 3 tubes. The basic design can be updated to use today's components, with significantly improved performance. Wes Hayward's book EMRFD has some designs. Another o

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On Tuesday 03 April 2007 02:05, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote: > On 3/31/07, al davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about lab test equipment.  There is a real need for > > simple stuff that is too simple to market at the high > > prices the big instrument companies need to charge.  The > >

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On 3/31/07, al davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How about lab test equipment. There is a real need for simple stuff that is too simple to market at the high prices the big instrument companies need to charge. The kind of equipment you need in a home lab. Like Heathkit used to make. One thin

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi > I'd like to see your bill of materials and design for that Tomaz. It's > the start of some ethernet labview-like gear. I'm afraid it doesn't work over the ethernet. It only uses the ethernet card as a cheap interface to the computer's PCI bus.

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> From "A Soul of a New Machine" I was reading that book as I was > developing a .5nSec time interval analyzer back in the early > ninties. Could I comprehend the sentiment. Heck, I worked for Data General for four years, fresh out of college. Not in the mainframe group, though. That's the

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On Friday 30 March 2007 19:24, Jason Aron wrote: >  I'm a hardware guy with lots of experience in building > radios and audio systems (RF and audio). I just had another idea ... Equipment for low-power FM radio. Some of these stations are on a very low budget. Commercial broadcast equipment i

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Tomaz Solc wrote: By the way: Some time ago I made a very cheap A/D converter (components cost cca. 50 EUR) that used a modified ethernet adapter on PCI bus. It had maximum 10MHz sampling frequency (TDA8703 IC) I had some problems with reliability of the FIFO buffer but I believe that would be s

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Randall Nortman wrote: Clock radio with ethernet I've been thinking the same thing, except the key feature I'm after is a morning alertness test: Instead of putting you through paces, it could just sense environment cues like pressure on bed, noise in room to decide to nudge you into action

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On Saturday 31 March 2007 14:30, Andy Peters wrote: > Give me drivers for my existing NI hardware, and you've got a > deal! NI has a track record of being hostile to free/open-source. One point that bugs me is that some of their products are derived from free/open-source software, and they give

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On Saturday 31 March 2007 14:30, Andy Peters wrote: > Give me drivers for my existing NI hardware, and you've got a > deal! Only if NI releases their entire design under GPL. The idea is to replace the NI hardware with "free" (as in GPL) hardware. __

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On Mar 31, 2007, at 10:29 AM, al davis wrote: Once we have this, we have a schematic program that can draw as well as Labview can, we are working on interprocess communication anyway, we are working on waveform analysis tools anyway, we have a simulator that will soon have real behavioral modeli

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On Mar 31, 2007, at 5:15 AM, Bob Paddock wrote: On Friday 30 March 2007 21:32, Randall Nortman wrote: And don't forget automatic weekday/weekend adjustments. http://www.thingsyouneverknew.com/website/store/product_detail.asp? UID=2007020820322012&item%5Fno=80153&keyword=F1JS&cat% 5Fkeyword

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Fitzsimons wrote: >> Does anyone have some good ideas for me? I'm a hardware guy with lots >> of experience in building radios and audio systems (RF and audio). > > A few months ago I joined a project to develop a GSM Scanner [1], at the > mom

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On Friday 30 March 2007 19:24, Jason Aron wrote: > I've been using geda for about six months and I think I'm > about done with my current project (I get the final boards > next week).  So while I'm waiting for my boards, I'm thinking > about what I'm going to do next...  and I'm drawing a > complet

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> Does anyone have some good ideas for me? I'm a hardware guy with lots > of experience in building radios and audio systems (RF and audio). A few months ago I joined a project to develop a GSM Scanner [1], at the moment we are using a USRP [2] and GnuRadio [3] software to capture and process the

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DJ Delorie wrote: >> That clock advances one *day* at a time. >> > > "I am going to a commune in Vermont, and will deal with no unit of > time shorter than a season." > > > ___ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org

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>> >>> That clock advances one *day* at a time. >> >>"I am going to a commune in Vermont, and will deal with no unit of >>time shorter than a season." > >That book is the best. > Agreed. For those that haven't read it yet or are wondering what the heck we are talking about: "The Soul of a New M

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On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, DJ Delorie wrote: > >> That clock advances one *day* at a time. > >"I am going to a commune in Vermont, and will deal with no unit of >time shorter than a season." That book is the best. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@mori

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> That clock advances one *day* at a time. "I am going to a commune in Vermont, and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season." ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

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On Friday 30 March 2007 21:32, Randall Nortman wrote: > And don't forget automatic weekday/weekend adjustments. http://www.thingsyouneverknew.com/website/store/product_detail.asp?UID=2007020820322012&item%5Fno=80153&keyword=F1JS&cat%5Fkeyword=F1JS&search%5Fpage%5Fno=&page%5Fno=

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On Friday 30 March 2007 21:31, Dan McMahill wrote: > > And don't forget automatic weekday/weekend adjustments. > > how about an adjustment based on weather. That way if I'm planning on > doing the 2 mile hike into my favorite fishing spot I won't be woken up > at 4:30 if its raining hard! htt

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On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 06:54:31PM -0500, Dan McMahill wrote: > > I've been meaning to make a simple AM modulator with semi reasonable > fidelity so I can make my sirius satellite radio play on my 1934 Atwater > Kent console radio... A friend of mine with a similar idea tried one of those 1MHz

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On Mar 30, 2007, at 10:09 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: Have a numeric keypad for setting the alarm time. And since we're all geeks, you only need two buttons anyway. Or one, if you know morse code. --. . . -.- ! -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL _

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> think of the other person in your bed... She has her own alarm clock. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

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think of the other person in your bed... On Mar 30, 2007, at 7:09 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: Have a numeric keypad for setting the alarm time. And since we're all geeks, you only need two buttons anyway. Or one, if you know morse code. ___ geda-

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> Have a numeric keypad for setting the alarm time. And since we're all geeks, you only need two buttons anyway. Or one, if you know morse code. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-use

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Have a numeric keypad for setting the alarm time. I don't want to have to use a computer to set the alarm, hence the local keypad. I hate holding the buttons to loop through time. Steve On Mar 30, 2007, at 6:45 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: how about an adjustment based on weather. That way if I'

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> how about an adjustment based on weather. That way if I'm planning on > doing the 2 mile hike into my favorite fishing spot I won't be woken up > at 4:30 if its raining hard! Ok, so we need something that can run embedded linux (or other OS), with LCD, ethernet, audio. A gumstix can do all

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Randall Nortman wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 09:05:06PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: I know everybody's got a long list of projects tucked away in the back corner of a desk... Is there one that you'd like a jump-start on? Clock radio with ethernet (ntp, remote alarm set, wake up to mp3s, etc).

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> While we are at it, it should make good toast and it should include > a built-in e-mail client. :) Or at least, an LCD display with your day's schedule and weather report. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi

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> I've been thinking the same thing, except the key feature I'm after > is a morning alertness test: to turn off the alarm, you have to play > a game of "simon", repeating some random pattern on four buttons, or > maybe even doing some math or something. The point of all that is > that I too ofte

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[snip] > >And don't forget automatic weekday/weekend adjustments. > While we are at it, it should make good toast and it should include a built-in e-mail client.:) -Ales ___ geda-user mailin

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On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 09:05:06PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > I know everybody's got a long list of projects tucked away in the > > back corner of a desk... Is there one that you'd like a jump-start > > on? > > Clock radio with ethernet (ntp, remote alarm set, wake up to mp3s, > etc). Mine i

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> I know everybody's got a long list of projects tucked away in the > back corner of a desk... Is there one that you'd like a jump-start > on? Clock radio with ethernet (ntp, remote alarm set, wake up to mp3s, etc). Mine is a couple of decades old, time for an upgrade.

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Jason Aron wrote: Does anyone have some good ideas for me? I'm a hardware guy with lots of experience in building radios and audio systems (RF and audio). Are you interested in Akustica digital microphones? I"ve got a back burner want to see what their power draws are, and how their datastre

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for a project

Jason Aron wrote: Hey anyone I've been using geda for about six months and I think I'm about done with my current project (I get the final boards next week). So while I'm waiting for my boards, I'm thinking about what I'm going to do next... and I'm drawing a complete blank. Does anyone have s

gEDA-user: Looking for a project

Hey anyone I've been using geda for about six months and I think I'm about done with my current project (I get the final boards next week). So while I'm waiting for my boards, I'm thinking about what I'm going to do next... and I'm drawing a complete blank. Does anyone have some good ideas f