2006-01-20 09:09 pm

projects: building a radio?

I'd like to build a radio. Perhaps several. AM then FM. Receiver. It's just something I'd like to learn more about, but also I feel ridiculous with a degree putatively in Electrical Engineering but without having ever constructed any radio device more complicated than a crystal set. It seems like there ought to be a nice book out there somewhere with progressively more sophisticated designs to play with?

One little idea I had was to try to build a clock would listen to and decode the time signals broadcast by NIST; those are on nice integer fixed frequencies, so maybe something simple (with a crystal oscillator) would work? [livejournal.com profile] ioerror, Google came up with a link to some neat pictures on your flickr account in response to the query, "homemade fm radio receiver". What's the story behind this nifty little contraption?
2006-01-18 01:25 am
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One of my resolutions is to use colored pencils more often.
2005-12-24 01:40 am

some goals

  • go to the south pole
  • learn portuguese (or spanish)
  • learn to fly (presumably a small plane)
  • write something and get it published