playing with bits

Thoughts of a computer scientist focused on electronics.
VHDL, RF, DSP, PIC, Digital, Analog, plus anything I find interesting at the moment.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween

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We had an extra pumpkin and I had 20 minutes... :) Happy Halloween.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

XBee Repeater

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I am finally ready to perform some long-range XBee testing using the Digi XBee-Pro XSC modules. I put together a few simple Xbee repeaters u...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

My Electronics Bench and Test Equipment

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I have been into the electronics field since I was about 11 years old. I reached that phase of my life where I began taking everything apart...
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NOAA APT Reception Using an Icom + Quadrifilar Helix Antenna Part III

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This post is way overdue, but here it is anyway as reviously I have talked about NOAA APT reception here and here .This past June 5th was t...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Maxim MAX7456 On Screen Display

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While looking for a solution to display characters over video for an on screen display I came across the Maxim MAX7456 . This is one easy to...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Long Range XBee PRO XSC testing, Part 2

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It has been awhile since my original post about seeing how large of a distance I can get two XBee PROs to communicate, but since coming acr...
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Serial VFD character displays are awesome

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I finally spent a few minutes powering up the serial VFDs I bought a month or so ago, they are all working. :) And it's bright! :D Placi...
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