Right now I’m focused on story development and integrating it with the daily-puzzle system I built last time I was between jobs.
This is a years-long slow-burn side project.
My career moved away from the frontend long ago—this is my first React app, with a Django backend running on AWS Lightsail.
Oh! That reminds me of an idea I had once for a “kid-powered computer”. Here is a sketch that I made to illustrate how a disk-drive works: https://flic.kr/p/an8kAA
I’ve had at least one job where the employment agreement actually mentions intellectual-property exceptions. So, I just brought that up with the recruiter/HR person and they whipped out a form where I describe my existing project. Someone (a lawyer?) reviews it to make sure I’m not competing in the same field as the company and everything was good.
That document (DA 18-980) talks about "importing two-way VHF/UHF radios... used primarily for short-distance, two-way voice communications."
In other words: cheap walkie-talkies that don't comply with FCC regulations.
Such radios typically max out at 5w.
The LimeSDR claims 10dBm - which I believe means about 10milliwatts.
In other words, that FCC memo is concerned with radios being sold that are something like five hundred times as powerful as a LimeSDR. And therefore much more likely to interfere with other transmissions.
Just downloaded it and tried it out. For the instructions it has, you can tap a part and it lights up the bounding box for that piece in the original image.