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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Thumbgps-devel] the serial alternative/radio noise
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:06:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120312220623.GB18256@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw59xuf3qjgMVUG+mFRWQv7SFmX5sxxzezH=CFntA+GVqg@mail.gmail.com>

Dave Taht <dave.taht@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,
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-12 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-12 21:54 Dave Taht
2012-03-12 22:01 ` tz
2012-03-12 22:06 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2012-03-12 22:59   ` Dave Taht
2012-03-12 23:22     ` Dave Taht
2012-03-12 23:51       ` Dave Taht
2012-03-13  1:31         ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-03-13  1:26       ` Patrick Maupin
2012-03-13  2:46       ` Ron Frazier (NTP)
2012-03-13  1:28     ` Eric S. Raymond

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