{"id":8,"date":"2017-06-04T19:02:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2017-06-05T22:28:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T21:28:48","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Andy and\u00a0I&#8217;m an Electronic Engineer from Gloucestershire\u00a0in the UK. \u00a0I&#8217;ve around 10 years&#8217; experience designing lots of different products, from RF receiver front ends to simple NMEA decoders. \u00a0Most of\u00a0my designs\u00a0involve RF in one way or another.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0work a lot with\u00a0embedded C and I tend to favour the PIC microcontroller for simple tasks. \u00a0I try to use the lowest power microcontroller I can get away with. \u00a0There&#8217;s no point in using a <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.farnell.com\/raspberry-pi\/raspberrypi-modb-1gb\/raspberry-pi-3-model-b\/dp\/2525225\">\u00a334\u00a0Raspberry Pi<\/a> to decode <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NMEA_0183\">NMEA data<\/a>\u00a0when a <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.farnell.com\/microchip\/pic16f54-i-ss\/mcu-8bit-pic16-20mhz-ssop-20\/dp\/1084319\">50p microcontroller<\/a> will do the same job!<\/p>\n<p>I use gnuradio a fair bit at home, mostly just decoding whatever signals I can find with an ageing Ettus B210. \u00a0I&#8217;ve also got an Airspy which can come in handy when I don&#8217;t need to transmit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve documented a few little projects I&#8217;ve done at home in the past, see my home page for links:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\">https:\/\/www.burningimage.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CatTrack is my latest project!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Andy and\u00a0I&#8217;m an Electronic Engineer from Gloucestershire\u00a0in the UK. \u00a0I&#8217;ve around 10 years&#8217; experience designing lots of different products, from RF receiver front ends to simple NMEA decoders. \u00a0Most of\u00a0my designs\u00a0involve RF in one way or another. I\u00a0work a lot with\u00a0embedded C and I tend to favour the PIC microcontroller for simple tasks. \u00a0I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningimage.net\/cattrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}