Have you heard about RF listeners earlier? If not, Maker Wolf has designed an RF listener that lets you hear the RF sources. When we look at the RF receivers, it usually singles out a particular frequency and decodes it. But in this project, the handheld device takes a range of frequencies and plays it as audio without decoding it into some type of information.
When you turn it on you immediately hear a whole forest of sounds; rapid blips from Wi-Fi, the intermittent chirps of airport radar, the drone of a microwave oven, and so on
says the Maker Wolf.
With this handheld device, you can now listen to a sound that you have never heard before.
When testing the schematic, the designer realized that it would not be possible to have a 0V = 0 signal for an op-amp circuit. The zero signal was made at 224mV, but when the actual prototype was tried, the chopper was disturbing the zero-voltage point. Hence the chopper was given its own buffer. The below figure shows the rewiring required to do this in the first prototype hardware.
At the heart of this wideband directional RF receiver is theĀ AD8318Ā demodulator chip, of which the breakout board is available onĀ AmazonĀ that takes the RF signal as input and outputs the logarithmic amplitude signal. But before it becomes audible, the output signal is passed through several filters and amplifiers.
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