The Hackaday Supercon conference is an amazing convergence of electronics, makers, engineers, designers, educators, and anyone else interested in making cool projects. Each year we descend on the town of Old Pasadena to Hack on things over the weekend in early November. The amazing thing about the conference is that every year they build a… Continue reading Tayloe Mixer Frontend for the Supercon 2023 Vector Scope Badge
I previously create a PCB patch antenna using the Matlab antenna design toolbox and had some pretty good results, but the narrow bandwidth of patch designs means that small errors in the simulation parameters cause a shift away from your desired frequency. My old post into the details of my journey of learning about patch… Continue reading 2.4GHz PCB Patch Antenna V2 Design with Matlab
Learning how to solder with hot air and solder paste is definitely one of those skills that you need to practice in order to built and fix modern electronics. The perceived difficulty of soldering SMD components has scared me in the past and has prevented me from learning more skills like PCB design, because why… Continue reading Hot Air Reflow with Solder Paste
Diving deeper into antenna design you find really interesting antenna structures based on what parameter you are trying to optimize for. I was looking for antennas that had wide bandwidth and some directionality, to use in conjuncture with my LimeSDR Mini for one of my many projects, that's how I found out about the Vivaldi… Continue reading Vivaldi Antenna Design with MATLAB
