Task was to send an animated PNG from one raspberry pi to another using two handheld radios (walkie Talkies).
Prerequisites: EECS 120, or instructor permission.
Course objectives: To develop skills for analyzing and synthesizing algorithms and systems that process discrete time signals, with emphasis on realization and implementation.
Why should you care? Digital signal processing is one of the most important and useful tools an electrical engineer could have. It impacts all modern aspects of life and sciences; from communication, entertainment to health and economics.
Office Hours
W 4:15-5:15pm Cory 506 (after discussion)″Discrete Time Signal Processing,″ by A.V. Oppenheim and R.W. Schafer, Prentice Hall, Third Edition. Book Store Link
Additional Material:
“Wavelets and Subband Coding” By Martin Vetterli and Jelena Kovacevic. Freely available here.
“Foundation of Signal Processing” and “Fourier and Wavelet Signal Processing” By Martin Vetterli, Jelena Kovacevic and Vivek Goyal version freely available Here
Technician Ham Radio License Manual 21$ Amazon (make sure it's 2018-2021 !)
It was discovered by Eric Fry that DVB-T dongles based on the Realtek RTL2832U can be used as cheap Software Defined Radios (SDR). Basically the chip allows the transfer of raw samples to a host computer. The samples can then be used to digitally demodulate and process almost anything that is transmitted between 27-1700Mhz!
Several homeworks/Labs will use the SDR. Each student in the class will receive a dongle and will be able to experiment with its capabilities. The final project will also be based on SDR. Several possibilities are writing an FM receiver, digital radio receiver, Police scanner, GPS receiver, NOAA weather alert receiver or satelite imagery and more.
In addition, each student will get a Baofeng UV-5r hand held radio. This will be used in Labs and the final project in the class. Every student in the class will take a HAM radio licensing exam, and be licensed by the FCC to operate the radios.
If you wish to earn credit for ham radio licensing, consider taking EE198-13 Quick intro to Amateur Radio
Articles and Links:
A list of the topics that will be covered is given Here, in the order that they will be covered This may change based on time.