South West Makers

Hey Paul,

It's surprising that your urban location is worse off than mine... I've had good data results from a 1.2m (standard) high weather station with approx 4m2 clear view. Way more accurate that my nearest airport (jandakot)

I like to be my own BOM Funny enough my dodgy Chinese weather station external unit has died last week. Now more than ever, it's time to make an open source arduino / raspberrypi weather station.

Pre-mod was 50-60m. Not bad for board mount!

215m with my HTC, 150m with the ipad2. More data to come

Hi Guys, I got my Pi3 yesterday, and couldn't help wondering if I could get an SMA connector on there to use an external antenna. Well it seems it isn't that hard to get on there and remove the built in antenna. I will do some range tests and see how it goes. So far It is at least 3dB better (twice ...

Fixed up my printer after is started missing steps and being worn out from maker abuse...
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Very nice as usual Paul! Those prints are looking good

What are the brick regulators you are using? Isolated?

Great work Paul:) Those pesky kids will tinker with everything!

I hope all of you swmakers are safe from the horrific fires down that way at the moment. Seems to be getting a bit to serious for my liking!

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Here is my blog on the beast!

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Nice!

Hi Guys, Sorry I completely missed this post. I am using a $6 Realtek RTL2832U from ebay. On my netbook at Robofair I was running gqrx from http://gqrx.dk/ which is really nice and lightweight, but won't run on a pi - minimum is x86 2 cores. I hadn't found qtcsdr by that time to run on the pi, so I ...

Great to get together as always guys! Here is my timelapse and a few pics m http://bjshed.better-than.tv/projects/robofair/large_slides/IMG_1464.JPG http://bjshed.better-than.tv/projects/robofair/large_slides/IMG_1463.JPG http://bjshed.better-than.tv/projects/robofair/large_slides/IMG_1461.JPG http:...

I'll give it a go!

edit: Here it is...



It's 300 x 300mm so not too bad. Should have used MDF for it's forgiveness, but thought I'd wing it with ply from Bunnings

I was going to cut a sign tomorrow for robofair, and was wondering if you guys have a decided logo and a vectorised SVG of it I can cut?!

Ok, looks like I 'm going to be back by Sunday now, so what is the plan of attack with this year? I don't have much new stuff to show, as the XYZCarve I made i too big to fit in the car! I did make a plywood case for my Pi powered SDR, but it's not finished yet. I can bring it anyway. I was hoping t...

Nice work! Looking forward to seeing it up and clustering

I might not be able to make it this year

I have to do a bit of FIFO for work, so I will let you guys know a bit closer to the date, but at this stage it overlaps

Cheers

Bj

Awesome!

Hello fellow followers, If you happen to do the latest "Jessie" update (or use PPAs from Jessie) you might find your Wifi won't work with wicd-curses properly any more. This is because it changes the /etc/network/interfaces file from this: auto wlan0 allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dh...