Jason Milldrum on July 4th, 2008

A quick update to show that I have completed the pQRP LC meter and placed it in a really nice enclsoure. I finally made it down to Norvac to pick up a few enclosures and found that the Hammond 1590CBU was just about a perfect fit for the meter. It's made of die-cast aluminum and [...]

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Jason Milldrum on July 2nd, 2008

I've been a big fan of the 7th Son podcast novel trilogy since I first started listening last year. For those of you who aren't familiar with the story, allow me to quote the synopsis from the 7th Son web site: The President of the United States is dead. He was murdered in the morning [...]

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Jason Milldrum on July 1st, 2008

While digging around the avrfreaks.net forums, I found this very interesting tidbit in a message from a gentleman who was working on using an AVR microcontroller for SAME decoding. One poster mentioned using the Goertzel Algorithm as a way to perform tone detection on a sampled signal. The algorithm is supposed to be simple enough [...]

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