Thanks! I'm happy with my current job, but would love to play with your eval boards (in my copious spare time :) when they're available. Send me an email (jon@jrock.us) and I'll buy a couple to try when they're ready.
It's rare when I see a startup on HN where I initially think "this is impossible", but do a little math and find that it's actually quite possible. Easy? No. But you're going to have a much better time working with the laws of physics in your favor than you would if you came up with something theoretically impossible :)
In the interim, check out http://wsprnet.org/. There are lots of people on the forums that are interested in weak signal work. If you have (or get) a ham radio license, you can try sending WSPR from a raspberry pi with a long wire connected to an I/O pin. It's pretty cool! (I've been meaning to set this up at work to see if I can get the signal at home on various bands, especially VHF around 144MHz or 1.2GHz. If that works, I have no doubt that you guys will be successful. And I think it will work.)
It's rare when I see a startup on HN where I initially think "this is impossible", but do a little math and find that it's actually quite possible. Easy? No. But you're going to have a much better time working with the laws of physics in your favor than you would if you came up with something theoretically impossible :)
In the interim, check out http://wsprnet.org/. There are lots of people on the forums that are interested in weak signal work. If you have (or get) a ham radio license, you can try sending WSPR from a raspberry pi with a long wire connected to an I/O pin. It's pretty cool! (I've been meaning to set this up at work to see if I can get the signal at home on various bands, especially VHF around 144MHz or 1.2GHz. If that works, I have no doubt that you guys will be successful. And I think it will work.)