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| novicefedora:
Will going through undergraduate textbooks allow me to design my devices? That is assuming I learn from them. Can an electronics undergraduate design something like a Wave Bubble? |
| tggzzz:
Please stop asking questions[1] that would lead to people making illegal and dangerous devices. Dangerous because they might prevent other people getting help in critical situations. In addition, if someone caught you using one, they might crack your skull - but that wouldn't cause me to lose any sleep. [1] e.g. https://www.eevblog.com/forum/rf-microwave/are-there-any-online-resources-available-to-make-my-own-signal-jammer/msg3160220/#msg3160220 |
| novicefedora:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 28, 2020, 03:00:49 pm ---Please stop asking questions[1] that would lead to people making illegal and dangerous devices. Dangerous because they might prevent other people getting help in critical situations. In addition, if someone caught you using one, they might crack your skull - but that wouldn't cause me to lose any sleep. [1] e.g. https://www.eevblog.com/forum/rf-microwave/are-there-any-online-resources-available-to-make-my-own-signal-jammer/msg3160220/#msg3160220 --- End quote --- Is that a veiled threat or lack of faith in my ability to defend myself. Why is there always a presumption that I wouldn't use it ethically? Anyway what I asked here is different I'm asking if an undergraduate be able to build a device like Wave Bubble? Or do they have to have the knowledge of graduate or post graduate? |
| westfw:
--- Quote ---Will going through undergraduate textbooks allow me to design my devices? --- End quote --- I'm going to say "no."Things may have changed since I went to college (class of 1981), but my EE degree was very long on theory (calculus, physics, digital logic, semiconductors, measurements, analysis, etc) and awfully weak on the practicalities of actually building anything.Going through the textbooks will probably allow you to understand, in principle, how "your devices" work, and next to nothing about how to find a power transistor capable of amplifying a RF signal of the frequency and magnitude necessary to build a high power transmitter. |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: novicefedora on July 28, 2020, 09:29:25 pm ---Why is there always a presumption that I wouldn't use it ethically? --- End quote --- Because you give no indication that you have either the knowledge or intention to use it ethically. Usually people asking such questions are up to mischief, or worse. So that's the way to bet. In addition, sooner or later another reader might come along and think "oooh, kewl, i'll do that" - and hurt a bystander. Thus I wouldn't post how to make explosives, nor how to use "naked" laser chips. --- Quote ---Anyway what I asked here is different I'm asking if an undergraduate be able to build a device like Wave Bubble? Or do they have to have the knowledge of graduate or post graduate? --- End quote --- Who cares what the answer might be? What will you do differently depending on the answer? |
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