A tale of wearables and things I’ve had a love-hate relationship with flexible printed circuits (FPCs). On the one hand, terrible to manufacture, solder and maintain. On the other? They are so cool. Extremely tough for RF designs, due to…
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How To Make A Bad Network Analyzer
Introduction Avast ye lab lubbers and radio farers! For reasons that will remain disclosed now, I have been getting into designing some measurement instruments. And what better one to talk about than the most coveted item for every radio engineer.…
A Finite Story About Differentials And Integrals
There are quite a few simulation tools available today. Various methodologies, various levels of GUI usability, but there is one thing in common. They are all really expensive. Ranting aside, it is useful to know how the different simulation techniques…
Some Stuff About RADARs, pt. 1 – Range, Power And Doppler
Just the tip of the iceberg on how RADARs work
The Practical Experience
As all young and enthusiastic engineers-to-be, I started off with high hopes and the notion that I knew something about maths. It took no more than 5 gruesome days of full classes to understand two things: I know nothing. About…
Binary Indexing, For The Simple Minded
While writing almost any algorithm, one rarely doesn’t encounters the most dreadful of tasks, indexing. Although it is comprised of simple multiplications and additions, placing elements in the correct order in a matrix is perplexing even for the most experienced…