[XCSSA] XCSSA Meeting: High voltage, Hardware Hacking, and other fun stuff (Mon, June 15th, 7pm back in the NTC building, old room 140 (not the basement))

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Jun 17, 2009, at 11:47 PM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio  
wrote:

> X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
>> We ended up having a pretty cool little meeting the other night..  
>> back in our
>> old digs, room 140.
>>
>> Fredrik wasn't able to make it out to show his high voltage fractal  
>> art.. but
>> I ended up showing the AMD PIC in action.. and we reflashed one and  
>> booted a
>> USB live CD distro from flash drive.. but then Bruce gave an Ad  
>> Hoc, but very
>> detailed white board session on exactly how the new digital  
>> broadcast system
>> works.. from the analog and digital spectrum/sideband diagrams and  
>> coding
>> schemes.. to how the new digital boxes work.. what their feature  
>> sets are,
>> and how new "rotorless" phase based electronically controlled high  
>> gain
>> antennas work.  Very informative!  Thanks Bruce!
>>
>>
> I am sorry I had to miss it.  Did anyone video tape the presentation?

Ditto

Tim