[Ground-station] Prototype BOM questions

[Michelle Thompson]

I think Wally has experience with the ESP32 as well. I have used ESP32 for
some minor Burning Man projects. The tools and experience has improved over
the past year or so.

-Michelle W5NYV




On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:45 AM Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:

> I really like the ESP32 and have gotten it to work well as a WiFi access
> point and WiFi station at the same time (necessarily on the same channel).
> It also has Bluetooth, which I haven't tried, and comes in a
> pre-FCC-approved module for $5 or less Q/1. It lets you implement a web
> server and thus interface to *everything.*
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:30 AM Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
> <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
>
>> Renewing work this week on the prototype BOM. I think the 8001s without
>> LNA (8001b) is the right choice, using the recommended reference design
>> (from Lime) to incorporate external higher performance LNAs.
>>
>> Scott Cowling is working on a “data engine”, or the digital part of the
>> board. I’m looking at the LMS8001 companion board for what else we need.
>>
>> Interested in hearing from Steve Hicks and Wally Ritchie about anything
>> else we might want or need. 8001 is a translator, meaning we need an RFIC.
>>
>> (Bluetooth in there somewhere to talk to Trans-Ionospheric badges needs
>> to not get forgotten.)
>>
>> -Michelle W5NYV
>>
>>
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