Roll Your Own SDR
If you have software-defined radio hardware and you are only using someone elses’ software, you are missing out on half of the fun. [Tech Minds] shows you how easy it …read more Continue reading Roll Your Own SDR
Category Archives: gnu radio
Listening to a Flashlight — Lunar Flashlight
If you’ve been looking for a practical example of using GNU Radio, you should check out [Daniel Estévez’s] work on decoding telemetry captured from the Lunar Flashlight cubesat. The cubesat …read more Continue reading Listening to a Flashlight — Lunar Flashlight
Hacking the RF Protocol of an Obscure Handheld Game
When you think old school handheld games, you probably imagine something like Nintendo’s Game Boy line or the Sega Game Gear. But outside of those now iconic systems, there was …read more Continue reading Hacking the RF Protocol of an Obscure Handheld Game
GNU Radio Decodes Voyager Data
With the 44th anniversary of the launch of Voyager I, [Daniel] decided to use GNU Radio to decode Voyager data. The data isn’t live, but a recording from the Green Bank …read more Continue reading GNU Radio Decodes Voyager Data
The Raspberry Pi Pico As An SDR Receiver
With the profusion of cheap RTL-SDR devices and the ever-reducing prices of more capable SDRs there might seem to be little place left for the low-bandwidth devices we’d have been …read more Continue reading The Raspberry Pi Pico As An SDR Receiver
A Few Of My Favorite Things: Amateur Radio
Hackaday has among its staff a significant number of writers who also hold amateur radio licenses. We’re hardware folks at heart, so we like our radios homebrew, and we’re never happier than when we’re working at high frequencies.
Amateur radio …read more
Learning SDR and DSP Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, November 11th at noon Pacific for Learning SDR and DSP Hack Chat with Marc Lichtman!
“Revolution” is a term thrown about with a lot less care than it probably should be, especially in fields like electronics. It’s understandable, though — the changes to society that have …read more
Software Defined Radio Academy Goes Virtual
They say every cloud has a silver lining. It’s hard to find a positive among all the bad news about the current global pandemic, but it has pushed more conferences and events to allow online participation either live or after the fact. A case in point: The Software Defined Radio …read more
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Pulling Data From News Feed Telemetry
We are used to seeing shots from TV news helicopters every day, they are part of the backdrop to life in the 21st century. But so often we hear them overlaid with studio commentary, so it’s interesting to hear that their raw audio contains telemetry. It caught the attention of …read more
TEMPEST Comes To GNU Radio
As we use our computers, to watch YouTube videos of trucks hitting bridges, to have a Zoom call with our mothers, or even for some of us to write Hackaday articles, we’re unknowingly sharing a lot of what we are doing with the world. The RF emissions from our monitors, …read more