Oscilloscope probe for iPod, iPhone and Android

Pretty much every app available in stores and markets, there are several programs oscilloscope, with which one can make its electronic companion to an almost full-fledged and digital oscilloscope. To the microphone input is used, allowing the measurements to 44.1 or 48.0 kHz. Even triggers is possible! Also for the Pc there are a number (even free and very powerful) programs to stress / time create charts. This is possible thanks to a stereo input, even a 2-channel presentation.
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Antenna tuning for FM stations

Everyone knows these small, nice, and recently in Germany allowed FM transmitter for MP3 player, which you can hear music in your car without cables. Unfortunately, the sound quality is due to permanent faults but very much to be desired. This is sometimes in the statutory, rather low transmission power. But you can improve a little bit, by pimps, the antenna a bit. For this I use an old and well proven principle of the antenna. In other words, just a cable in a certain length, which must be calculated beforehand. The best thing is when the length of the cable length frequency wavelength, or fractions thereof. The FM spectrum is in the VHF band II between 87.5-108 MHz, the mean count on us is thus 97.75 MHz.
Now we calculate:
Speed ​​of light [m / s] / frequency [1 / s] = wavelength [m]
in numbers:
300 million [m / s] / 97.75 million [1 / s] = approx 3.07 [m]
Since no one has fixed on a 3m long antenna, you can also use a fraction of them, eg 1/8 or 1/4. Ie 77 cm or 38 cm.

Then I have the body of my ultra-cheap, illegally produced in China by children, housing my FM transmitter and have opened the aerial search, which was glued a small strip of copper in the body. I have then extended the same time. At the point where it was soldered with a small antenna cables to the board, I then simply soldered on my 38cm cable. But the best thing now would be really, if we take this new antenna cable out of the case and simply hangs on the device, so the length to its best advantage. But I wound for aesthetic reasons, this cable and herded into the enclosure. Experimentally, I've also found that if I bridge the small SMD capacitor, which is located directly after the antenna connector on the motherboard, the range has again raised discreetly. Why can not explain it, maybe even one of my readers know the reason. Have fun listening to music!

eject iPod by linking

ipod.jpg Has to do nothing but tinker with, but after I looked for even the fingers sore after that, I just publish it.
The actual ejection takes a VB Script using drive eject through the workplace. Consequently, the script works with all iPods, but only those that are configured for use as a hard disk drive. It does not matter if the iPod is a USB / FireWire cable or docking station. This can then also other external hard drives, USB drives or CD / DVD drive eject easily. read the full post ...