Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request.... - Open-Hardware

2011-01-10 Thread J.D. Bakker
At 16:27 -0800 09-01-2011, John Gilmore wrote: -- LART. 250 MIPS under one Watt. Free hardware design files. http://www.lartmaker.nl/ Why is your email signature advertising a website that hasn't been updated since 2003? Perhaps that's a cautionary tale about free-hardware projects -

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request.... - Open-Hardware

2011-01-10 Thread Moeller
On 10.01.2011 02:22, Marcus D. Leech wrote: The SSRP, as far as I can tell, is dead. Last status update was nearly 4 years ago. The development stopped apparently. But at least he has a working design for the RX part. o The ADC board (single-channel, thus cannot handle direct-conversion

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request.... - Open-Hardware

2011-01-09 Thread Moeller
On 09.01.2011 05:48, Brian Padalino wrote: Hello Mr. Ettus, Do you have any plan to reduce price for USRP1 or release PCB layout for poor students? So lets figure out something that is worth while for you to do - simulate something. Simulate anything! There is a channel simulator built

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request.... - Open-Hardware

2011-01-09 Thread Moeller
On 09.01.2011 18:31, J.D. Bakker wrote: It's not a wrong question to ask for cheaper hardware that everybody can afford. It is if you're not willing to invest the time and money to make it happen. That is the commercial point of view. GNU itself is very non-commercial. It would be logical to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request.... - Open-Hardware

2011-01-09 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/09/2011 04:19 PM, Moeller wrote: There are still radio amateurs, hobbyists and other people who like to share knowledge about creating hardware. See the SSRP (http://oscar.dcarr.org/ssrp/) project. You don't have to be a millionaire to finance your electronics hobby. Wasn't it just $30

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request.... - Open-Hardware

2011-01-09 Thread Moeller
On 09.01.2011 22:34, Marcus D. Leech wrote: Sounds like you're volunteering to create such a project. Let us know when you have everything set-up, including initial high-level designs, and preliminary parts selections. :-) No, but some people started (SSRP), really a good starting

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request.... - Open-Hardware

2011-01-09 Thread J.D. Bakker
[Moeller, please include some blank lines in the inline replies, as without those your mails are much harder to read] At 00:11 +0100 10-01-2011, Moeller wrote: On 09.01.2011 22:34, Marcus D. Leech wrote: Sounds like you're volunteering to create such a project. Let us know when you have

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request.... - Open-Hardware

2011-01-09 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/09/2011 06:44 PM, J.D. Bakker wrote: The SSRP doesn't look too bad. Another option is the OpenHPSDR (http://openhpsdr.org/); I believe people are working on GNUradio drivers. Actually, I'd forgotten about OpenHPSDR. Would make a passable option indeed. When I designed the LART (a