[hpsdr] Sasquatch II

[George Medakovich]

A detachable touch-sensitive screen and one or two assignable knobs, 
also detachable (wireless?).
Touch the screen for button presses.  Touch the screen to assign a 
slider to a physical knob.

See the earlier post on the Lemur.  Will the Computer Control Command 
standard support
display and selection from a waterfall display?  The digital music folk 
have been working
on this stuff for a long time - also see the earlier post on Lemur.  
I'll bet the OSC standard is
networkable, etc., and if it catches on you may eventually be able to 
buy a good control panel at your
local music store.

George, ae5ci

Ronald Cox wrote:
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> To all Sasquatch II hunters,
>
> I am also one of the lurkers following the Sasquatch discussion with 
> interest and also one that has all the HPSDR modules offered by TAPR 
> running in the shack now or on order. I find it interesting and 
> expected that with all the excellent talent working on these projects 
> very little progress is evident with regard to mechanical engineering. 
> All things mechanical seem to be on the back burner with little signs 
> of life. Why is this important to Sasquatch? Well you are talking 
> about buttons and knobs, enclosures and styling that are not the 
> strong talents of this group. I have been building TAPR projects since 
> the original TNC2 and have been a life member of AMSAT (# 185) for 
> most of the years of its existence. I would really be pleasantly 
> surprised if anything happens here with regard to buttons, knobs and 
> enclosures. That said, what do we need in Sasquatch? I would say that 
> a clearly documented and well publicized user interface so anyone 
> inclined to develop a human interface of any kind could do so with the 
> assurance that it will work reliably. What has been privately 
> discussed is using an extension of the Kenwood (TS-2000?) "Computer 
> Control Commands" which I understand to be a sort of de-facto standard 
> among radio developers these days. PowerSDR already has implemented 
> some of this, but I think it would be a real great step forward if 
> such an interface could be defined in the early stages of defining 
> Sasquatch.
>
> Ron, W9KFB
> Indianapolis, IN
> On Dec 11, 2008, at 4:11 AM, Ahti Aintila wrote:
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