Saturday 29th July 2023 saw 12 people attend the CCARC clubhouse for a lecture and workshop introducing the Arduino series of microcontrollers.A Powerpoint presentation took us on a brief journey on the development of microcontrollers and how functionality has evolved from dedicated hardware to transducers interfaced to an Arduino and the functionality provided in software.…
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The Central Coast Amateur Radio Club held a very successful Show and Tell event last Saturday at our Kariong clubrooms. The theme was “I made this could you”. Peter kicked off with a display of his Blittzortung lightning detector. Try saying that quickly.! It is a German made SMD kit that use an E and…
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Earlier this month our repeater team observed some anomalies with the MMDVM based repeater Our team suspected there was something going on with the Arduino powered repeater control module. Lindsay VK2AMV and Brad VK2NMZ took a field trip to the repeater site (and ensured they maintained 200mhz apart). First thing was to check the configuration…
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