An Overview Of The FM Bug Transmitter
The FM Bug transmitter is meant to be something fun that anyone can build given enough time and effort. The actual quality of the transmitter is not very good as you saw in the video, but it works up to 100 feet away and you can understand what comes out the other end. The build process was a little more tedious than usual, but there was no software to develop so things weren't all that bad.
What To Do Now
There's miles upon miles of things you can do to make this project better. The antenna could be improved, the board layout could be improved, you could add filtering on the output so you don't have a really wide bandwidth. You could even design a better amplifier so the signal travels farther. There's a lot of ways this project can be improved and used, so get to it and try to improve it!
Conclusion
The transmissions from the FM Bug transmitter weren't the clearest, but I'm moderately happy with how it came out. I was however, super bummed I couldn't include my undercover video...that's the whole point of the bug! Either way as a final disclaimer for you guys, don't do anything illegal with this and be sure to lookup in your respective countries what the allowable power transmissions are. So my real conclusion is, have fun with this bad boy but don't be one.
If you have any further questions, I implore you...don't be shy, take a look at the forums or ask a question there. I check them out regularly and love getting comments & questions.
The FM Bug transmitter is meant to be something fun that anyone can build given enough time and effort. The actual quality of the transmitter is not very good as you saw in the video, but it works up to 100 feet away and you can understand what comes out the other end. The build process was a little more tedious than usual, but there was no software to develop so things weren't all that bad.
What To Do Now
There's miles upon miles of things you can do to make this project better. The antenna could be improved, the board layout could be improved, you could add filtering on the output so you don't have a really wide bandwidth. You could even design a better amplifier so the signal travels farther. There's a lot of ways this project can be improved and used, so get to it and try to improve it!
Conclusion
The transmissions from the FM Bug transmitter weren't the clearest, but I'm moderately happy with how it came out. I was however, super bummed I couldn't include my undercover video...that's the whole point of the bug! Either way as a final disclaimer for you guys, don't do anything illegal with this and be sure to lookup in your respective countries what the allowable power transmissions are. So my real conclusion is, have fun with this bad boy but don't be one.
If you have any further questions, I implore you...don't be shy, take a look at the forums or ask a question there. I check them out regularly and love getting comments & questions.