Rick Evans - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Start building kits (Score 1) 301

by Rick Evans on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @12:09AM (#31827208) Attached to: Where To Start In DIY Electronics?

I'm the builder/owner of an Elecraft K2 (sn 27xx) and it's a fantastic radio.
It's also a REALLY intimidating first electronics kit and rather expensive.

I'd suggest an MKARS80 instead. http://www.radio-kits.co.uk/mkars80page.html

Price: UKP 55 for a full kit.
Simplicity: Originally designed to be built by hams in India. No surface-mount parts, not many transformers to build.
Features: LCD frequency display, a few big knobs, VOICE comms instead of Morse Code.

The manual is a little light on explaining the theory of operation, but quite solid build instructions.

I'm getting the urge to order one for myself now. Why don't I own this already? Sheesh.

Rick, KG4FER

Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac 398

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @05:53PM from the vlc-generally-rocks dept.

plasmacutter writes "The Video Lan dev team has recently come forward with a notice that the number of active developers for the project's MacOS X releases has dropped to zero, prompting a halt in the release schedule. There is now a disturbing possibility that support for Mac will be dropped as of 1.1.0. As the most versatile and user-friendly solution for bridging the video compatibility gap between OS X and windows, this will be a terrible loss for the Mac community. There is still hope, however, if the right volunteers come forward."

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