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ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification

75 pointsby ta988today at 6:56 AM14 commentsview on HN

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bArraytoday at 1:29 PM

Antenna design is a dark art, I like simple hacks like this.

> The two parts of the antenna are intentionally designed to create an omnidirectional radiation pattern without a pronounced directionality.

I worked on a project a while back to try to utilize this to detect the arrival direction of WiFi signals approximately based on received strength. Do this for enough base stations and you have a very crude positioning system.

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minimaltomtoday at 5:54 PM

Silver-coated wire? I don't have that lying around.

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