Copasetic Flow

 Just a brief description of how I capture audio recordings during Project TouCans outings. First, where's the audio coming from? Project TouCans of course.  It's frequently in the air, embedded in its dipole antenna, so about a year and a half ago, we started piping audio to the round via Bluetooth. Specifically, the audio out from the RockMite feeds this Bluetooth transceiver, a 1Mii Bluetooth 5.3 Transmitter Receiver for TV to Wireless Headphones For the recording/receiving rig, I use a different Bluetooh reciver, an Alura . It's the only Bluetooth receiver I could find  that would receive the 1Mii. From there, I use a stereo connector splitter. One side goes to my Sony voice recorder microphone input. The recorder is fine with the fact that I don't have an attenuater in the line.  The other side of the splitter feeds my Bose Ultra QC noise cancelling headphones. Do be honest, I have those for work, not for palling radios. The whole system, over time, has ...

 Raspberry Pi released the Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 today. It's the same wireless module supporting both WiFi and Bluetooth that's used for the Pico W and the Pico 2 W, but it's packaged as a standalone module . Photo of Pi Radio Module 2 from release announcment I don't know if we'll wind up using this module on Project TouCans, but the external antenna you can see on the right-hand side of the module abovoe has been enticing at various points during the project. I know that extending the antenna would violate the conformance and RF certification that the module provides, but Project TouCans isn't a commercial product yet anway, so... There are games we can play with just the module itself though. The first of which would be to move from a Pico-W to a Pico and move the processor module inside TouCans, leaving only the wireless module on the ouside of the device.  TouCans Current Setup with Pico-W on the Outside This should make the whole rig more rugged, bu...