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Long post about wanting to sell function generators.. but no link to buy?

It’s not a function generator. It’s a software person having a first stab at what they think a function generator is, and then discovering that it’s more complicated and harder than they realised.

It’s a first step in a learning project, not a product. They say as much in the article.

Well... it is a function generator by definition, and they are attempting to sell it, so it is also a product. I'm going to go ahead and also say that this person has had some hardware development experience as well. Not very many people could put all this together in a couple months without any HW background.

Not very many people could put all this together in a couple months without any HW background.

You are correct! I'm a professional EE by trade during the day.

I've had a lot of fun on this first pass learning about direct digital synthesis, STM32 microcontrollers, and serial consoles. The next revision, which I'm just beginning to work on, will feature a whole nother batch of electronic concepts I'm interested in. Small sampling of what I expect to learn about next inlcudes: chebyshev filters, error budgets, and multistaged opamp design.

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