Re: [time-nuts] Anybody have suggestions for time related science fair projects?

2018-05-11 Thread Philip Gladstone
On 11/05/2018 07:23, jimlux wrote: On 5/10/18 9:55 PM, Hal Murray wrote: A few months ago, I was a judge for the county level middle school science fair.  (I'm not very good at what they wanted, but that's a different problem.) What sort of interesting time related experiments can a middle s

Re: [time-nuts] Designing an embedded precision GPS time server

2017-10-28 Thread Philip Gladstone
I built a couple of NTP time servers around this board: https://www.olimex.com/Products/ARM/ST/STM32-E407/open-source-hardware which supports IEEE1588. It also acts as a PTP source on the LAN. It is part of the IPv6 ntp pool and is currently serving about 1000 requests per minute. It uses a cus

Re: [time-nuts] GPS plates shipped today

2017-05-25 Thread Philip Gladstone
I want to thank the both of you for putting this together. Philip p.s. I signed up with the USPS some time ago to get email whenever someone ships a package to me (https://my.usps.com/) and I just got the notification (with the tracking number). On 25/05/2017 16:03, Jerry Hancock wrote: Hel

Re: [time-nuts] TAPR Oncore M12+ kit

2017-04-28 Thread Philip Gladstone
I was hoping that someone would design some end plates from PCBs -- it just needs the PCB design and then the production is easy. I've built cases before with PCBs as the front and rear panels -- they look nice. I'm in for a group buy Philip On 28/04/2017 08:19, Stan wrote: I would be in

Re: [time-nuts] Time-nut going England!

2017-04-26 Thread Philip Gladstone
Yes -- Greenwich is a must. Also read up on why the GPS 0.0 E line is not on the mark that is etched in the ground. Then walk over to the 0 point and admire your GPS receiver. The Harrison clocks are a wonder to behold. Philip On 26/04/2017 11:46, Graham / KE9H wrote: If you have nev

Re: [time-nuts] Leap-second capture on laptop

2017-01-01 Thread Philip Gladstone
I added this message to the Linux kernel near the end of 1993. There is a companion message that indicates the removal of the leap second -- but this has never been seen (except in testing!). In retrospect, it isn't clear that jumping the clock by a second was the right decision, but, at the t

Re: [time-nuts] Leap second on LEA-6T

2016-12-31 Thread Philip Gladstone
Bob, I use the AID-HUI message to get the time of the next leapsecond. I use the utcWNF and utcDN to get the day number of the next leap second. Since it always happens at the end of the UTC day, this gives you the time. utcLS and utcLSF give you the the before/after offsets. Yes, it doesn't

[time-nuts] My analog clock capturing the leap second

2016-12-31 Thread Philip Gladstone
https://goo.gl/photos/RZKqsgZqv2mH5UYK6 This is a video of my cheapo clock (which is NTP synchronized via an ESP8266 module running LUA). Actually synched to a local NTP/PTP server using GPS. OT When the leap second happened, the kids complained that Netflix stopped working! Coincidence? P

Re: [time-nuts] A Leap Second is coming

2016-12-30 Thread Philip Gladstone
This is my clock (NTP synchronized) -- with a bit of luck, the second hand will stop (for a second) at the appropriate instant (7PM Eastern). I intend to catch it on video. Unfortunately, this being an inexpensive clock, the plastic gears result in the hands not aligning quite correctly (it de

Re: [time-nuts] Ig Nobel ceremonies & time

2016-10-03 Thread Philip Gladstone
I was also there as the leader of an Official Delegation -- "Engineers for Accurate Time". Our performance when introduced was sub optimal (especially as seen in the Youtube video below). This is our delegation after the awards: https://www.flickr.com/photos/88087539@N00/29469880204/ As you ca

Re: [time-nuts] Glass Envelope Quartz Crystals

2016-02-03 Thread Philip Gladstone
t;Foxbat" etc. Alan G3NYK - Original Message - From: "Philip Gladstone" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Glass Envelope Quartz Crystals I dug around in my junk box, and found this: https://plus.google.com/+PhilipGladstone/posts/

Re: [time-nuts] Glass Envelope Quartz Crystals

2016-02-03 Thread Philip Gladstone
I dug around in my junk box, and found this: https://plus.google.com/+PhilipGladstone/posts/JBNLMSq2rsE?pid=6247050011623528018&oid=115465617973526125523 This is (according to the markings) a 71.137 kHz crystal made in 1948. I suspect that they just measured the crystal after manufacture rather

Re: [time-nuts] Modern HW replacement for ATOM based NTP server?

2015-04-08 Thread Philip Gladstone
On 4/8/15 17:13, Attila Kinali wrote: The Cubie borads and the stuff done by Olimex would be also quite good. Especially Olimex is known for their very good user support, as they specifically sell to tinkerers and engineering companies. This also includes that their boards have almost all I/O p

[time-nuts] Frequency doubler 5/10 and distribution amplifier for Lucent KS-24361

2015-04-02 Thread Philip Gladstone
I'm coming late to this thread from January -- but did anybody ever make the PCBs for Gerhard's 10MHz output board? I'm interested. I just got my pair of RFTG's. Philip ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https:/

Re: [time-nuts] Recording mains frequency/phase [WAS: No GPS satellites]

2015-02-27 Thread Philip Gladstone
On 2/26/15 20:39, Charles Steinmetz wrote: ben wrote: I'm going to have to build one of these. Assume you have some sort of circuit that converts low-voltage AC from a transformer secondary to a pulse train, start a timer, and count x amount of pulses? Here is a zero-cross detector designed f