Re: gEDA-user: New user to PCB - what does this error mean?

[Susan Mackay <susanmackay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, this is getting WAY off topic, but:

 >Ok, I'll bite... now you've got me curious about what you're working
 >on...  ;-)
 >
 >73 - Bdale, KB0G

It's a little bit of everything really. It started off with me wanting  
to play with one of the PIC processors (18F4550) to do something  
useful but really to learn how to use them. Then I thought that I  
really needed a frequency counter (the board I posted is the log- 
amplifier and prescalar part so that I can get up to 500MHz). Then I  
thought about adding a frequency source and found the AD9958 DDS  
frequency synthesizer. By adding in the AD8302 IC I can get amplitude  
and phase difference values from a bridge. The PIC device as a USB  
port built-in and so would provide a nice controller for the whole  
thing - an LCD display and a few buttons for instantaneous or other  
'in the field' use, with the USB receiving commands and sending back  
data for frequency-sweep analyses etc.. At night, when the thoughts  
run wild,  would like to add a digital scope part as well but that  
will need its own ADC and memory to get the bandwidth up to something  
above a few MHz.

Underneath it all, I was looking to fill in my time after my home  
circumstances changed an I found myself on my own. I returned to my  
old interests of ham radio and electronics and I was wanting something  
real to build, but would also be a real challenge and allow me to  
learn lots of stuff on the way. I think I might have got a bit carried  
away, but I'm having fun.

Cheers,

Susan VK3ANZ


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