[Saturday: 6 miles on Macintire Road; Sunday: 1 hour of rowboating; today: 3.4 miles]
The May/June 2018 issue of QEX magazine had an interesting construction project in it, an audio frequency vector network analyzer based on an arduino-like platform and featuring a touch screen interface. Sounds cool.
I got on to the mailing list for the project and a guy was getting a circuit board batch made. I pitched in for one board. Then I ordered the parts and got the board all populated. Yesterday I got the arduino programming loaded.
Now I am working on the enclosure. Today I found a plastic box and fashioned a light aluminum cover. I think I can hang the whole thing off of the cover. The only thing I will need to do to the box is drill a hole for the USB programming/power cable. The next step is to do the layout of the cover. I will have the touch screen, three banana plug terminals and one BNC connector. I have some salvaged “pin” connectors instead of the banana plug things. They are smaller. But I don’t know if the matching plug-in parts are readily available.
Here you can see the board and the touch screen in operation and sitting on the enclosure I hope to use.
