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Wow! I’m drooling. Brings back memories, as at 9, I was the prime age for this stuff. I bought the Big Track re-issue a few years ago. It is quite nice, but

Wow! I’m drooling. Brings back memories, as at 9, I was the prime age for this stuff. I bought the Big Track re-issue a few years ago. It is quite nice, but they did not make the trailer option. Also bought the re-issue Mattel football. I also had an Armatron, and took it apart. All the gears dumped out, learned allot putting it back together. I did have the Intellivision, and later decked it out with accessories when they were dirt cheap. Had a Little Professor, but it was yellow. I don’t remember the Little Genius.

aswanson 8y ago
Off topic but in another thread I saw you did some work with SDR. I'm interested in getting started in that area. Can you point to some useful resources to get started in that, and antenna design?
- mysterydip 8y ago
  Not them but since it's offtopic anyway, here's what I used: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ bought the kit off Amazon and was able to set it up on Windows and Linux after following a few instructions. There's tons of software and projects out there to expand it, and that website has links to a lot of them.
  - aswanson 8y ago
    Thanks!
- madengr 8y ago
  Antennas: ARRL Antenna Compendium for the layman. Antenna Theory and Design by Stutzman and Theile for a textbook. Books by Constantin Balanis or John Krauss are good too. Modern Antenna Design by Milligan for a practicing engineer reference book. DSP: Understating Digital Signal Processing by Richard Lyons is a excellent as it has theory and practicality. Discrete-time Signal Processing by Oppenheim and Schafer for a textbook. I don't know what would be a practicing reference book as I'm a hardware guy. Comms theory: Digital Communications by Sklar for a textbook. SDR: SDR covers such a broad area, you need a little of everything. RF hardware, DSP, FPGA/HDL, comms theory, python/C++ programming This looks really good, but I have never read it: https://www.analog.com/en/education/education-library/software-defined-radio-for-engineers.html https://www.analog.com/en/education/education-library/softwa... I keep notes here for when you want to build GR from source (though I have not used GR 3.8 yet): https://rfpoweramp.com/category/sdr/gnu-radio/ https://rfpoweramp.com/category/sdr/gnu-radio/
  - aswanson 8y ago
    Much obliged, sir.
xtiansimon 8y ago
I remember the trailer for BigTrack used a 1/8 audio jack for both the circuit connection between the tank and the lift-bed and as the trailer's hitch.
- beamatronic 8y ago
  You could use a paper clip and complete the circuit and make it dump the load

aswanson 8y ago

Off topic but in another thread I saw you did some work with SDR. I'm interested in getting started in that area. Can you point to some useful resources to get started in that, and antenna design?

mysterydip 8y ago
Not them but since it's offtopic anyway, here's what I used: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ bought the kit off Amazon and was able to set it up on Windows and Linux after following a few instructions. There's tons of software and projects out there to expand it, and that website has links to a lot of them.
- aswanson 8y ago
  Thanks!
madengr 8y ago
Antennas: ARRL Antenna Compendium for the layman. Antenna Theory and Design by Stutzman and Theile for a textbook. Books by Constantin Balanis or John Krauss are good too. Modern Antenna Design by Milligan for a practicing engineer reference book. DSP: Understating Digital Signal Processing by Richard Lyons is a excellent as it has theory and practicality. Discrete-time Signal Processing by Oppenheim and Schafer for a textbook. I don't know what would be a practicing reference book as I'm a hardware guy. Comms theory: Digital Communications by Sklar for a textbook. SDR: SDR covers such a broad area, you need a little of everything. RF hardware, DSP, FPGA/HDL, comms theory, python/C++ programming This looks really good, but I have never read it: https://www.analog.com/en/education/education-library/software-defined-radio-for-engineers.html https://www.analog.com/en/education/education-library/softwa... I keep notes here for when you want to build GR from source (though I have not used GR 3.8 yet): https://rfpoweramp.com/category/sdr/gnu-radio/ https://rfpoweramp.com/category/sdr/gnu-radio/
- aswanson 8y ago
  Much obliged, sir.

xtiansimon 8y ago

I remember the trailer for BigTrack used a 1/8 audio jack for both the circuit connection between the tank and the lift-bed and as the trailer's hitch.

beamatronic 8y ago
You could use a paper clip and complete the circuit and make it dump the load