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APRS: More Cool Things You Can Do With Radio

🇺🇸 · Triple Cities Makerspace · Gary Dewey

I’ve recently acquired my amateur radio license (technical level) and joined the Binghamton Amateur Radio Association (BARA). BARA is based out of the Kopernik Observatory and Science Center, and among their fairly extensive collection of equipment is a 2 Meter Band Yaesu radio connected to a computer with a Terminal Node Controller (TNC), which performs digital repeating for their instance of APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System). I worked on a project to migrate their current setup to a Raspberry Pi and tnc-pi based system , which meant that I got to learn about APRS! APRS is a means of communicating real-time data using radio, such as weather information from weather stations, station/radio tracking via GPS (Global Positioning System) satellites, text messages, and more. The radio transmits a series of tones (which sound like a modem) to one or more digital repeaters, known as digipeaters, that take a radio signal broadcast from another station and re-transmit it to other stations. Some of these digipeaters may also be connected to the Internet to relay packets containin

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Bob Brown’s Readie Machine: The Workshops

🇬🇧 · EOF Hackspace · Iulian Arcus

This is part 2 of the Bob Brown’s Readie Machine series. Check out part 1 . The project is being spearheaded by Eric White of the American Literature department of Brookes University. To get a better feeling about the scope of the project please see his talk at TEDxWhitehall earlier this year. As part of doing outreach for the project the team organised a series of workshops in collaboration with the County Council Libraries Makerspace in the Westgate Shopping Centre aimed at 12-18 year olds. The brief for this was simple. Make sure the attendees have all they need to build the machine. That meant giving them some boards to assemble their work. So for this I cleaned up some pallet wood rescued from a local coffee roaster. To take it a bit further I made some larger boards and put them together with glue and dowels. In the meantime I found out about a new trend called knolling which means rearranging items so that you can see each individual component. For the workshops we bought a set of vintage mecanno sets as current day mecanno sets are extremely expensive. We were

Der Fall J.

🇩🇪 · Hasi

Hybr1s möchte uns zu Halloween etwas Angst machen und erzählt uns deshalb eine Geschichte über eine aus dem Darknet bestellte Mystery Box. Was danach passierte muss entweder ein perfekt inszenierter Internethoax gewesen sein oder ein wahrhaftiges Verbrechen. Kommt vorbei und findet es heraus. Vorher googlen ist streng verboten!