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This is a route that I was planning to take on Linux, so it is disappointing to hear that this was your experience. Is it possible that HDHomeRun as the backend to Tvheadend is the…

Emulators can take you quite far, though you need to research some of them on the net to figure out working combinations of OS versions and emulator versions. Here are examples of …

I thought that the joke in Alaska was that mosquitoes are the state bird.

Lots of large observatories use EPICS. Like Gemini, Keck, Kitt Peak, LIGO, etc.

There is also Electronics Plus in San Rafael. It is an old school electronics parts store, complete with the ability to sell you cable by the foot.

Many Bluegrass websites are labors of love created by musicians that are not experts in computing and web design. If you were to tell them that they are violating the ISO 8601 time…

If I can find a 5 volt compatible device that does what we need, then why would I even bother looking at 3.3 volt devices?

It sounds like you are suggesting that we build our own custom circuit boards. The people that I work for do not manufacture our own circuit boards. We largely do not have the expe…

No doubt. But lots of Arduinos have been used in scientific experiments because they are inexpensive and easy to work with. So the choices made in Arduino-like boards do affect us.…

Not if you are doing it for 10,000 signals or more.

I work for several beamlines at the Advanced Photon Source. There are probably far, far over 1,000,000 electronic signals at the whole APS facility that use 5 volt signaling. So al…

Yes, most scientific lab tools have some way of communicating with third-party tools. We tend to shun tools that do not, although some vendors are perplexed and/or annoyed by this.…

There are many of us that work with scientific instrumentation that has to retain compatibility with 5 volt logic levels. Many labs have equipment that is over 50 years old and whi…

If L1 is a problem, then L2 would be a problem as well. After all, at L2 the spacecraft is receiving its commands from the direction of the sun. However, the problem is not quite a…

Is this likely to work at Lunar distances anytime soon? I saw that the James Webb telescope people were unhappy about losing much of their communication time on the Deep Space Netw…