Ramblings of a Krass
This is a general "I felt like writing and there's stuff that happened so I'm going to write about it" post. So.. on with it.
Well, the FM transmitter still doesn't work, I think I just need to approach it with a clearer head and rebuild it and pay more attention as I build it. I know the design works and I suspect I bungled a connection, because I was getting nothing from the first transistor. So I figured I'd switch it out, but when I removed the old one I became confused where to put the new one, and some leads don't seem to match up. We will see how that turns out. For the record I'm using this schematic here.
I'm also planning to resurrect some older projects, and set up a new workbench with my new room arrangement. Oh yeah about that, I rotated the desk 90 degrees and rewired everything. Godzilla and Gojira are now under the desk, and the stereo is fixed. now the room is a lot neater cause I'm using the storage racks to store things, not computers and it just works better. It also left me a ton of space on the desk, and I extended it with a wooden shelf to the heater. So now I have room to work. It's cool!
As far as other projects go, the LED lights are probably next, or some audio mixing circuits. I kind of want to try to build something to interface my ham radio (My call is KC2RGZ by the way) to my Altera DE1 FPGA dev-board and make a simplexer repeater for fun.
Most/all of my project work depends on getting probes for my oscilloscope, and possibly buying all these kits to stock up. They're cheap, $60 buys one of each!
Classes are going well, pretty interesting stuff, but I don't feel like writing about them now.
That's about it I guess, hopefully expect a ton of my projects showing up soon.
Well, the FM transmitter still doesn't work, I think I just need to approach it with a clearer head and rebuild it and pay more attention as I build it. I know the design works and I suspect I bungled a connection, because I was getting nothing from the first transistor. So I figured I'd switch it out, but when I removed the old one I became confused where to put the new one, and some leads don't seem to match up. We will see how that turns out. For the record I'm using this schematic here.
I'm also planning to resurrect some older projects, and set up a new workbench with my new room arrangement. Oh yeah about that, I rotated the desk 90 degrees and rewired everything. Godzilla and Gojira are now under the desk, and the stereo is fixed. now the room is a lot neater cause I'm using the storage racks to store things, not computers and it just works better. It also left me a ton of space on the desk, and I extended it with a wooden shelf to the heater. So now I have room to work. It's cool!
As far as other projects go, the LED lights are probably next, or some audio mixing circuits. I kind of want to try to build something to interface my ham radio (My call is KC2RGZ by the way) to my Altera DE1 FPGA dev-board and make a simplexer repeater for fun.
Most/all of my project work depends on getting probes for my oscilloscope, and possibly buying all these kits to stock up. They're cheap, $60 buys one of each!
Classes are going well, pretty interesting stuff, but I don't feel like writing about them now.
That's about it I guess, hopefully expect a ton of my projects showing up soon.
posted by Matt Krass at
10/28/2008 12:40:00 AM
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