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Post by Skalle on Apr 22, 2016 22:48:58 GMT -6
What other tech are you into besides computers? Today I started work on a ham radio antenna for the 20m band, and I also made a dipole for TV out of cheap speaker wire and a transformer. Radio and antennas are awesome.
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Post by bowtiev8 on Apr 26, 2016 11:28:48 GMT -6
I'm interested in technologies in cars.
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Post by Skalle on Apr 26, 2016 13:53:19 GMT -6
I prefer old car technology, like before they went and put stupid computers in everything. Carbeurators > fuel injectors, all day.  |
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Post by Skalle on Apr 26, 2016 13:59:30 GMT -6
 Got that for my birthday. I have a storm spotter class on the seventh of May, so I'll be reporting severe weather with my new radio this summer.  |
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Post by bowtiev8 on Apr 27, 2016 11:53:46 GMT -6
I prefer old car technology, like before they went and put stupid computers in everything. Carbeurators > fuel injectors, all day. It's interesting when you have cars like Tesla having their system running on Ubuntu. Yes, Ubuntu isn't optimal, but it could be a good start for Libre open source software to get into cars. |
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Post by bowtiev8 on Apr 27, 2016 11:54:25 GMT -6
Got that for my birthday. I have a storm spotter class on the seventh of May, so I'll be reporting severe weather with my new radio this summer. Nice. Sounds like you will have tons of fun doing it. |
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Post by Skalle on Apr 27, 2016 22:29:47 GMT -6
Ubuntu in a car? Haha, that's amazing.
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Post by Skalle on Apr 30, 2016 17:28:29 GMT -6
I got that SDR we got years ago working on Arch. I need to make a better antenna for it, but it's not a bad little receiver. I use GQRX, a GNU SDR program. It works a lot better than that crap software we were using in Wangblow$ years ago. Kind of neat to play with. I want to see if I can use it somewhere with decent altitude to see what I can pick up with it (assuming the police don't show up, because whenever you stick up an antenna somewhere public, people assume you're up to no good... ask me how I know).
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Post by bowtiev8 on May 2, 2016 13:11:15 GMT -6
Sweet. Ham radio stuff on GNU/Linux sounds like it is tons of fun.
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Post by Skalle on May 2, 2016 14:16:22 GMT -6
Indeed. I need some contest logging software. I just have to search the Arch repositories; there are probably like 904823984238029384 programs for it.  |
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Post by bowtiev8 on May 3, 2016 11:38:50 GMT -6
I have heard Elk stack is good, but you need a server for that. |
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Post by Skalle on May 3, 2016 14:55:01 GMT -6
Not happening. |
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Post by bowtiev8 on May 5, 2016 11:24:23 GMT -6
I see. |
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Post by Skalle on May 5, 2016 15:38:28 GMT -6
Maybe I'll write my own Python program for contest logging. |
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Post by bowtiev8 on May 6, 2016 11:44:41 GMT -6
I think you should do it.
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Post by Skalle on May 6, 2016 14:08:57 GMT -6
It probably wouldn't be too hard.
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Post by bowtiev8 on May 11, 2016 11:55:16 GMT -6
It would probably be easy if you knew what you where doing. |
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Post by Skalle on May 11, 2016 15:32:12 GMT -6
I don't know enough yet. |
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Post by bowtiev8 on May 12, 2016 11:59:08 GMT -6
You're getting there.
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Post by Skalle on May 12, 2016 16:40:24 GMT -6
Not fast enough. I can't study at work anymore because I need a Python interpreter available to test new coding concepts, and there isn't one there. I could install Python at my workstation, but I would get in a lot of trouble.
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