[Thumbgps-devel] the serial alternative/radio noise

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Mar 12 18:06:23 EDT 2012


Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com>:
> I AM curious if there is one of the gps boards we've looked at than
> can 'just fit' on this header. Or, for that matter, a RTC.

How often do I have to sing the "this kind of customization won't scale"
song?  

> Now, I actually brought this up because in looking at this I realized
> anew what a huge radiator of various forms of electronic noise this
> is. - 2.4ghz and 5.x ghz radios, and a variety of possible waveforms
> from the cpu - and I'm curious as to what extent gps is affected by
> these frequencies.

You and I have observational evidence that it's not an issue even for
low-end, poorly-shielded hardware,
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