This section will list several projects which will allow you to build your own RF design test equipment. Microwave construction techniques and basic electronic skills will be required on some projects, but the tools you can make will equal what the so-called `professionals` use. We modified the iwconfig command included with Jean Tourrilhes` Wirele
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ss Tools for Linux slightly to help with the wireless link setup and alignment. Here is what the original output of the command iwconfig eth1 would look like: Here is a screen shot of the modified version. It displays the same information, just with some lame ANSI colors and a bar graph for signal strength. I`m not sure if it`s entirely accurate, so use at your own risk. You can pick this version up here. There is also a version for the 915 MHz WaveLANs. It also includes the perl script pinger. pl, ( screen shot ) you can use this as a signal meter to help align the antennas in your network. It`s just a wrapper around the ping command to display the millisecond output with an ANSI bar graph. It also has an option for using the `say` command from the rsynth package to speak the ping millisecond value to you. That`s useful for when you`re hanging from a tower trying to align antennas. Another method of testing the received signal strength on a Symphony based wireless network is with a homebrew signal meter. The National LMX2240 Intermediate Frequency Receiver has a certain pin called "RSSI Out". RSSI stands for relative signal strength indicator and supplies a voltage output that is an indication of the received signal strength. On a weakly received signal the voltage output of the RSSI is small and on a strong signal it`s large. Unfortunately, this output is only on during the receive portion and off during transmit. This...
This project fits more for custom made battery casing that can have more space to hide things inside. This switch with few alterations can be used for any other project as well but is designed based on e-bike needs! This project use a clever functionality of....
The circuit described here uses ultrasonic oscillations and operates based on the propagation velocity of these oscillations in the air. Thus, we can easily determine the distance of two points if the time within which the wave travels this distance is....
Sometimes the precious metals are hidden too deep and are not detected except with complicated devices. In many cases, however, small pieces of precious metal buried near the surface can be detected by relatively simple means. Everyone is very attractive to....
Many times for various reasons we forget or can not water the plants that we have in our homes. And many humidity sensors units just notify us with a beeping sound or with a flashing light, that the pot needs watering. But what if we are away from home? This....
The principle behind a metal detector is really very simple. Proof of this is the circuit that follows, in which it proves that the construction of a metal detector can be done in the minute, with few components that we find very easily everywhere. With the....
The sub-harmonic bass generator is a sound producing unit for guitars. The sound it produces looks very much like that of the bass guitar. The octave generator is sometimes quite unusual since it does not produce any of the usual ways of coloring the sound,....
In the past the sounding (sea bottom measurement) was done with the "bullet", that is, with a heavy lead object that the seamen plucked into the sea hung from a calibrated rope. As soon as the "bullet" reached the bottom, the depth appeared directly from the....
This Amplifier was designed to have the following specifications: Distortion less than 0.1% at full power of 100W even at 20KHz. Power has to be attributed to an extended bandwidth. The output transistors must be protected against short circuits. The power....
A series of LEDs serve to alert the gardener when plants need water. Using two conventional digital integrated LEDs and a series of LEDs, we make a very useful device for gardening. The device detects the amount of water in the pot and alerts the grower.....
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