[Ground-station] Can you test an RFBitBanger boardset? Build/test, keep the board

[Michelle Thompson]

Quick update on the boardset - we have a volunteer and the RFBitBanger
boardset should go out to them today. Thank you to all responding for
helping improve this open source amateur radio project!

If you're just catching up to this email and are interested, then worry
not. We'll order a batch of boards after the current round of testing. That
larger order will open up more testing and refinement.

We'd very much like to have a "one stop shop" list of parts to order, long
term.

Steve Conklin handled the most recent parts order. Steve used
https://www.lcsc.com/ for the majority of the components, with some parts
(toroids, for example) ordered elsewhere. There were some shortages and
there were some minimum quantities that we ran into for this successful
prototype build.

This is all run-of-the mill development stuff and not surprising. For the
next round of boards the quantities will be larger and we'll have to do
some fundraising and/or crowdsourcing. DEFCON sales should help quite a
bit, and we have been given the green light for that.

Thank you to everyone for the support and feedback. We have a great
community that produces excellent work. This is only one of many projects
that we do. Even if it's not something you're involved with, please spread
the word. We survive and thrive only if people know about our work.

-Michelle Thompson




On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 1:42 PM Michelle Thompson <
mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have an RFBitBanger boardset (main board + display board + parts) that
> needs to get built. We are looking for an additional person to join the
> folks testing and refining the design. There's a Slack channel dedicated to
> this called #rfbitbanger.
>
> The repository is here:  http://www.github.com/profdc9/RFBitBanger
>
> We need to test output filters, external computer control (e.g. FT8
> support) and the iambic key support. The main board is the one in the video
> here: https://youtu.be/cp3MMp09ym4
>
> The display board was not included in the video because we didn't have any
> at the time the video was shot. The way that particular main board was put
> together required some minor modification to fit a display board on. That
> has been done, along with some initial iambic key work. Updates for that
> are already in the repository.
>
> Looking for: volunteer to build and test RFBitBanger
> What do you do: build, test, advise through participation on Slack
> What do you get: an RFBitBanger main board and display to keep
>
> Forward to anyone you think might be interested!
>
> -Michelle Thompson
> 858 229 3399
>
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