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<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.667px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">Raspberry-Pi DVB transmitter: The benefits of open-source hardware</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box">Is this Raspberry-Pi-based device the world&#39;s smallest DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) transmitter?</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">I was first alerted to the benefits of open-source some years ago while talking to a couple of very experienced engineers. These guys, who worked for a multi-billion-dollar company with a global footprint, had been asked by their manager to complete a project in a ridiculously short time frame.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">They concluded that their only hope was to use open-source, which was an unusual decision for a company of that size and a bit of a culture shock. Open-source software has a long pedigree, of course, but most companies do not open up their hardware designs.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">Lime Microsystems is one company that evangelizes an open-source philosophy and provides full details of its wireless chips. As a result, the open-source community has embraced the software defined radio (SDR) boards from Lime and is creating some exciting applications, which greatly extend the functionality of the device through the use of a natively enabled app store.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">This digital TV transmitter, which is based on a combination of a LimeSDR Mini and a Raspberry Pi Zero, provides a perfect example.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.eeweb.com/profile/paul-dillien/articles/raspberry-pi-dvb-transmitter-the-benefits-of-open-source-hardware" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">https://www.eeweb.com/profile/paul-dillien/articles/raspberry-pi-dvb-transmitter-the-benefits-of-open-source-hardware</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#FF0000" size="3" style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">•</strong></font><font size="2" style="box-sizing:border-box"></font><span> </span><font size="2" style="box-sizing:border-box">Our thanks to<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Stephen, G7VFY</strong><span> </span>for spotting this item</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

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