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PART Telescopes – Bringing radio astronomy within reach of rural schools

114 pointsby openrocketsyesterday at 3:12 PM30 commentsview on HN

https://mag.openrockets.com/p/how-an-australian-teen-team-is...


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DoctorOetkertoday at 3:51 AM

This seems to be an essentially empty boilerplate page?

"Instructions

Access setup guides and project resources through the documentation menu. We recommend starting with installation instructions, then following the software workflow for recording and processing data from RTL-SDR devices. "

There is no "documentation menu"?

peterusyesterday at 4:36 PM

Very interesting project, I'd be interested in seeing their system architecture in more depth and what tricks they used to bring the unit cost down.

Another radio telescope project I saw a while ago """misused""" low cost universal GNSS receivers ICs (MAX2769) as their RF frontend, which I found to be novel since these chips operate in a weird performance regime of low resolution (1- or 2-bit output) but very high sensitivity.

bgoated01yesterday at 3:54 PM

Is the telescope design available anywhere for hobbyists to build? I can't seem to find anything in the article or in a separate search. I'd be interested in perhaps putting one of these together to do radio astronomy with my kids.

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armcatyesterday at 4:10 PM

What an awesome story. Not too many stories about Aussies out there, but what Han brothers are doing with Unsloth in AI, and stories like this one, makes this fellow Aussie super proud!

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ngriffithsyesterday at 4:17 PM

I would have been all over this if we had one of these when I was in school. Very cool project.

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qwertyforceyesterday at 6:10 PM

fwiw pangram says it is 100% generated

bdangubicyesterday at 4:01 PM

Can we have more stories like this on the front page please!

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zamadatixyesterday at 4:28 PM

It's a shame the title was so interesting, but not enough for a person to spend time write something about it in the body. Not just as a compare and contrast, but as a meaningful conveyance of the story and details. That's where a real article comes in - to be more than just an expansion of the original prompt.

Does anyone know if there is an official site/repo/page for this project somewhere with info about the actual design?

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bluebandsyesterday at 4:58 PM

100% AI generated (and probably by someone affiliated with said team -- for the purposes of college apps)

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