Title: RF and more Arduino Date: 2016-06-26 14:35 Slug: rflayer0 Authors: Reese Summary: More Arduino labs and SDR RF fun.

SDR and Arduino

I have got my SDR back out, the local repeaters have been pretty active. I seem to keep hearing the same people. Had a strom come in and they gave good updates. I got out my HamItUp Upconverter and heard some traffic on the HAM bands. I did this lab it was very cool messing with analog inputs. I also learned what a potentiometer is. I did a couple more labs and now I’m done with CIRC-09. Reversing the code in this one was fun it let me turn it into a night light.

#int sensorPin = 0; // select the input pin for the potentiometer #int ledPin = 13; // select the pin for the LED #int sensorValue = 0; // variable to store the value coming from the sensor

#void setup() {

// declare the ledPin as an OUTPUT:

pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);

#}

#void loop() {

// read the value from the sensor:

sensorValue = analogRead(sensorPin);

// turn the ledPin on

digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH);

// stop the program for milliseconds:

delay(sensorValue);

// turn the ledPin off:

digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW);

// stop the program for for milliseconds:

delay(sensorValue);

#}

This was a test for codeblock in markdown. I can’t tell if it worked as of writing this.

Hyper-V

Yes I still do run Windows for some of the video games I enjoy playing. I have been loving what the Linux guys did with KVM. So I figured I’d try out Hyper-V. The setup was quite simple. All I had to do was check a box and then was told I needed to reboot the computer so the service would be started. I have installed a rolling release of Gentoo and I was not able to change the resolution to a higher more native one. Maybe I should have tried a more popular distro for starting with. In all A good weekend I got some side work done.