Red Pitaya board on sale

[Terry Fox]

I'm not sure if I sent this info to tacos already... so here goes.

Elektor magazine is offering the Red Pitaya board for about half price right 
now.  It was about $500, it is now just under $250 if you are a subscriber 
to Elektor, and just above $250 if you are not a subscriber.

What is a Red Pitaya, I hear you ask.  Well, it can be a fruit, but this 
version is not.  It is a small credit-card sized card that the company touts 
as a programmable instrument.  They have code to make it a two-channel 
oscilloscope, a two-channel signal generator, a spectrum analyzer (two 
channels!), an LCR meter, and other fun stuff.

The Red Pitaya has a Xilinx FPGA/SOC hybrid chip, with:
two-channel, 125Msps, 14-bit ADC
two-channel, 125Msps, 14-bit DAC
lower-sample rate ADC & DAC (100ksps IIRC)
extra GPIO
multiple USB ports
Ethernet port
(one USB can have a Wifi adaptor in it)

I have been very interested in the board for a while, but it cost too much 
as a toy at $500.  At the sale price, that's a different story.

All ya-all know how interested I am in SDRs.  Well, someone has turned the 
Red Pitaya into an SDR receiver, that interfaces with Winrad or HDSDR, - 
which probably now includes Linrad as well.

I do NOT have any interest in the company, other than I think this is a 
great board, at a great price.

Here are some links:
The board and info: http://redpitaya.com/
Elektor Sale site: http://www.elektor.com/development/red-pitaya/
SDR in Hackaday: 
http://hackaday.com/2015/03/02/using-the-red-pitaya-as-an-sdr/
SDR information: 
http://pavel-demin.github.io/red-pitaya-notes/sdr-receiver/

I hope the sale goes on for a little while longer.  I'm expecting my board 
to arrive any day now (RSN).
73, Terry, N4TLF