Recently, the Red Pitaya team started a series of videos with tips and tricks on how to get the most out of this powerful multi-instrument. This episode shows how to turn your Red Pitaya into a time-domain reflectometer to measure cable length.

Just sayin'... The clip also involves a terminator... a 50Ω one!



Red Pi-what?
Red Pitaya is an open source measurement and control tool in size of a credit card (dimensions: 107 x 60 x 21 mm). It can replace many expensive laboratory measurement instruments. The Red Pitaya unit is a network attached device based on Linux operating system. It includes Radio Frequency signal acquisition and generation technologies, FPGA, Digital Signal Processing and CPU processing.

For more info, you may check our full free review.

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