Re: Want a Freerunner? Tell a Story.

2010-10-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Olivier Migeot  writes:
> Depends on how you define "near". The area I would be interested in
> using it is between 5 and 30 kms away from the nearest station.

5 - 30 km should be ok for DGPS. 5 km might even work for RTK. Apply
for an EUREF account and test if you can get RTK work with only one
device :-)

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Re: Want a Freerunner? Tell a Story.

2010-10-15 Thread Olivier Migeot
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors
 wrote:

> Cool to hear that you are interested in GPS. However, I did most of my
> experiments in RTK mode, not DGPS. If I understand it correctly in
> DGPS the base station can be much further away than in RTK. This means
> you can probably use some publicly available DGPS basestation for your
> experiments.

Ok, My bad, I confused your experiments and thought it was DGPS.

> http://www.epncb.oma.be/_trackingnetwork/stationmaps.php
>
> has a list of EUREF reference stations in Europe. Are you near one of
> them?

Depends on how you define "near". The area I would be interested in
using it is between 5 and 30 kms away from the nearest station.

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Re: soldering tutorial, was: Re: [Shr-User] uSD hosed, on every unstable.

2010-10-15 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 15 October 2010, Alfa21 wrote:
> 2010-10...@15:58 jeremy jozwik
> 
> > yah thats what i was wondering, frying components. but it is surely a
> > common technique, this is the first ive seen with a hot plate. most
> > use a hot air gun.
> 
> hot air is used to unsolder components for replacement.
> hot plate imho is fake

More coverage of various techniques here, including details of the hotplate 
method. It's the wrong method for reattaching a USB connector and a resistor.
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutorial_info.php?tutorials_id=59

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Re: soldering tutorial, was: Re: [Shr-User] uSD hosed, on every unstable.

2010-10-15 Thread Alfa21
2010-10...@15:58 jeremy jozwik

> yah thats what i was wondering, frying components. but it is surely a
> common technique, this is the first ive seen with a hot plate. most
> use a hot air gun.

hot air is used to unsolder components for replacement.
hot plate imho is fake
if you want to do a clean and standard work follow this video about 0402 size:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66GV4OuShzI

it's almost the same I tried to explain before, but here it is more clear and 
complete.

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