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| emteycz wrote:
| My father once brought this device home. I saw computers using it
| pinging, but having a look at the hardware was awesome in its own
| way (I was around 6, 7?). Very sophisticated and at the same time
| simple.
| ghostly_s wrote:
| What the hell is going on here?
| http://images.twibright.com/images/ronja/rx/clock/rx_assembl...
|
| why wouldn't you use a pcb for something like this?
| obnauticus wrote:
| Dead bug style circuit assembly has been popular in the ham
| community for a long time. It's definitely a legacy thing but
| still quite common for hobbyist projects.
|
| It's quite suitable for specific RF situations provided you
| have done the right characterization work.
|
| https://spectrum.ieee.org/with-the-dead-bug-method-hobbyists...
|
| https://hackaday.com/2016/05/04/getting-ugly-dead-bugs-and-g...
| BostonEnginerd wrote:
| This project predates easy and cheap PCB creation.
| alar44 wrote:
| No it doesn't. It's been possible to make homemade PCBs for
| decades.
|
| Even then, they could have at least used perfboard.
|
| No idea why someone would want to do it that way. That was
| fine for the 1920s, but there's no excuse for such poor
| construction these days.
| aliswe wrote:
| from the website:
|
| > Things have been made much easier by putting the most
| complicated electronics on a PCB.
|
| maybe it looks like this nowadays?
|
| http://www.simandl.cz/stranky/elektro/ronja/ronja.htm
| okl wrote:
| To the contrary. That is how hams wire up their circuits
| when using throughhole components. Look here:
| https://hackaday.com/2016/05/04/getting-ugly-dead-bugs-
| and-g...
| alar44 wrote:
| Some do, but it's stupid. There's no reason to do it that
| way other than laziness. And even that's the wrong word
| as that's much more difficult than using a board.
| terinjokes wrote:
| As someone who recently started looking into free space optics
| for communication, seeing this suddenly pop up here is a bit
| surprising! This is the project I pointed at when my friends
| asked if you could do fast communications with visible light.
|
| The project has cataloged several installations
| (http://ronja.twibright.com/installations.php) but I suspect
| there's many more that haven't been registered. I'm curious if
| any of these systems are still in place.
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