Stephan Sloan

RF Spectrum and Tower Lover, tinkerer, 3D Printer, RaspberryPi fan, I know it can be done.

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

@blind_via Kiddos come first and second and…..
Anyone who knows and has the capacity will be supportive. The rest is noise.
God bless you and your children.

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

Shape the future you want…

Hardware designed and made in the USA - “Chinese Chips Prohibited” (CCP)
State machine - no base operating system, no excess code.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

This is the wrong path to 2045.

Your robotics and AI should not be shaped by commercial messages.

But in 2026 there are folks just dripping ready to have an Ad injection layer.

I was offered to work on one, I declined.

For a lot of reasons.

Shape the future you want…

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

@therealcarlin Eh- big surface mount part- easy enough to swap out

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

@blind_via I don’t understand this model but have you looked at https://t.co/M4KcQH03TO

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

When I grow up I will have something like yours- until then it’s an Altoids tin.

[Mehdi @MehdiHacks]

@ElecNotes I have the Tekbox adapter set.
They're useful and handy for quick tests but they have limits too (that's why they're cheap)
For anything serious (metrology grade, high frequency) I use adapters from Huber Suhner or similar high quality brands.

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

A weather balloon could lift that little fella pretty high.

[SAWT @AI_in_LEO]

Card-Sat V0 is done! This is a business-card sized satellite.

Many lessons learned here. At ~$80/sat I was north of beating $50SAT out for the title of cheapest satellite but at least I got to learn to make custom radios, solar panels etc.

Next up: deployment & comms tests

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

A painter’s extension and a cooperative palm tree can work too.

Nice work!

[K3RRR @K3TripleR]

Ross Johnson: "I found this great 5Core 48” DJ speaker stand tripod on ebay to use with my JPC-12 antenna. For $21 including shipping and tax, the light gauge steel tubing (about 5lbs total) is quite stable and durable. Yes, some of the parts are plastic and probably would not stand up to a 50mph dive off the back of a pickup, but it seems pretty capable of delivering good service as an affordable field stand… folds down to about 28”, extends to 54”.

I had to drill a hole in the provided top plate to run a 10mm bolt up through my counterpoise disk and into the antenna base, but that was the extent of the mod’s. I set it up with my G90 in the backyard and added 4 counterpoise wires out to tent stakes. It was a quick stable setup and the 10-15mph wind had no effect at all.

The best QSO of the day with stand fulling extended was well over 1300mi… Connecticut to Kansas, 5-9 on 20 watts. It will definitely have a home in the POTA activation kit stored in my pickup."

[Natalie F Danelishen @Chesschick01]

I always think of this quote on memorial weekend.

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

@anuj_tnr Aaaaannnnddddd we’re back!

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

@anuj_tnr Same here

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta….

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Radio Frequency test equipment, finally built like it's 2026. Zero driver installs, PoE and USB-C, automatic device discovery and networking, and a SKILL.md to write your test software.

Smash your test development schedule and ship to production faster with @NineFivesRF.

https://t.co/LLj7TApHZk

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

Does Claude ask anybody else about quitting until tomorrow or that it might be a good spot to stop in a project??

[i2cjak @i2cjak]

My CLAUDE md starts with “I was born a poor black child”

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

@jeffreywestling It has The Poster too!

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

The Pipeline and The Poster
Nice new site NTIA!

[Scott S. Patrick @ScottatPatrick]

NTIA Relaunches https://t.co/E570ZfG6Da. Lots of good stuff. Check it out.
https://t.co/vEm5Fj71Jp

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

American Embedded!! 🚀

[i2cjak @i2cjak]

as soon as my next Framework expansion card is finished, jlcjak and I (Also Cooper if there's a mechanical aspect) are open for business again as American Embedded. We are accepting new clients!

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

I thought “Skin In the Game” was the name of your favorite strip club?

[Lou Pai, CEO, Enron Energy Services (parody) @EnergyPeddler]

I gotta say, I tried reading Antifragile and thought I was unintelligible gibberish but maybe I’m just a retard

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

@FattestFatTony My goodness- that’s the perfect representation of Mayor Mamdani

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

@BrianRoemmele You had me at, “vast context window…”

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

@yacineMTB I have a PicoScope 2205A MSO in the loop for development work. It’s an oscilloscope and logic analyzer and is small and travels well

[Stephan Sloan @TheStephano]

@elonmusk Coming up on the 116th anniversary of his “Man in the Arena” speech in Paris on April 23rd I believe