I’ve finished laying out the base station PCB, hurrah!
As ever I’ve laid it out using Eagle – this time I’ve managed to keep it to two layers so that’ll save me some money in PCB manufacture costs. Click it to enlarge.
I’ve finished laying out the base station PCB, hurrah!
As ever I’ve laid it out using Eagle – this time I’ve managed to keep it to two layers so that’ll save me some money in PCB manufacture costs. Click it to enlarge.
I was a little premature with my previous post. I can’t quite draw the schematic diagram yet – I need to work out the antenna!
Texas Instruments have produced an excellent guide, examining a number of different types of antenna for embedded applications. The table below summarises the pros and cons of a number of different antenna solutions and is taken from that guide.
There are going to be three main elements to the CatTrack design:
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