@mntmn @crowdsupply I recently had my company order me a ThunderScope for my day job... I'm awaiting delivery.

Just today I was thinking that an MNT reform would work well as a controller/hub/visualization sever for my telemetry setup.

I'm currently using a RPI CM5 and Alchitry Pt FPGA board. But that means I'll have to roll my own battery setup, etc.

And now this post. Cool.

I think I'll try to get the company to buy MNT hardware for me to try out as a next gen platform.

#protonpack

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I see you have two Kintex versions of the processor. That's very interesting to me as an #FPGA dev.

I'm generally a cheap-skate, so I look at the price of those and question the value proposition for an exploratory side project with no real aim, but on the other-hand, it is still cheaper than a lot of the dev boards.

I'm also thinking I would like to build a mash-up with my Alchitry Pt based FPGA design that has a pair of coax run to the transceivers for telemetry.

@mntmn @crowdsupply Adding a top plate with a screen is an interesting idea.

For pass one, my telemetry recording box will just have a power, switch, a toggle switch and some LED's: toggle it on to start recording and watch the LED's to be sure it is happily recording. Toggle it off to stop the recording.

No display, because we don't want the complexity and we would have to deal with emissions off the screen, which risk disrupting the RF signals we are looking at.

@mntmn @crowdsupply I do have longer-term thoughts of having some remote status monitoring as a second phase, and the idea of streaming some summary-status data over wifi/udp and having a MNT-reform-type device receive the multiple streams, build them into a dashboard and display them and/or stream them via websockets to a website/phone based browser so multiple people could monitor the system in real time.

That's a stretch goal.