- Low cost radio telescopes are great fun.
A few other similar projects:
https://astrochart.github.io/
Https://arise.seti.org/
https://wvurail.org/dspira-
lessons/
https://www.haystack.mit.edu/haystack-public-outreach/srt-th...
https://pictortelescope.com/
https://github.com/0xcoto/virgo
by DoctorOetker
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- This seems to be an essentially empty boilerplate page?
"Instructions
Access setup guides and project resources through the documentation menu. We recommend starting with installation instructions, then following the software workflow for recording and processing data from RTL-SDR devices. "
There is no "documentation menu"?
- Very interesting project, I'd be interested in seeing their system architecture in more depth and what tricks they used to bring the unit cost down.
Another radio telescope project I saw a while ago """misused""" low cost universal GNSS receivers ICs (MAX2769) as their RF frontend, which I found to be novel since these chips operate in a weird performance regime of low resolution (1- or 2-bit output) but very high sensitivity.
- I'm in the long process (slow due to competing priorities) of building an 18" visual telescope because the views can be really cool and beautiful. Plus it blows my mind that I might be able to hand grind something to see light from deep space that could be thousands of years old.
So, my question is, are there any cool things I can do with a radio telescope that have that same sort of intrinsic cool/wow factor?
by bgoated01
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- Is the telescope design available anywhere for hobbyists to build? I can't seem to find anything in the article or in a separate search. I'd be interested in perhaps putting one of these together to do radio astronomy with my kids.
- Along the same lines: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6552/ad0542
- What an awesome story. Not too many stories about Aussies out there, but what Han brothers are doing with Unsloth in AI, and stories like this one, makes this fellow Aussie super proud!
by ngriffiths
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- I would have been all over this if we had one of these when I was in school. Very cool project.
by qwertyforce
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- fwiw pangram says it is 100% generated
by bdangubic
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- Can we have more stories like this on the front page please!
by zamadatix
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- It's a shame the title was so interesting, but not enough for a person to spend time write something about it in the body. Not just as a compare and contrast, but as a meaningful conveyance of the story and details. That's where a real article comes in - to be more than just an expansion of the original prompt.
Does anyone know if there is an official site/repo/page for this project somewhere with info about the actual design?
by bluebands
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- 100% AI generated (and probably by someone affiliated with said team -- for the purposes of college apps)
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