Collaborate Disseminate
The days when software defined radio techniques were exotic are long gone, and we don’t miss them one bit. A case in point: [Laakso Mikko’s] research group has built a …read more Continue reading Phase Coherent Beamforming SDR
[VK3YE] knows there are at least two things wrong with the cheap antennas you get with most SDR dongles. First, they are too short. You’d like to have enough to …read more Continue reading Improving Cheap SDR Antennas
Dipoles are a classic builder’s antenna, after all they are usually little more than two pieces of wire and a feedline. But as [Rob] shows us in the video below, …read more Continue reading A Cheap Dipole Antenna from an Extension Cord
Last month, I found myself Googling: Is weed legal in Nevada? This was the day after arriving in Reno for Wild West Hacking Fest – Way West 2021. I kept noticing that the hotel smelled like it from the moment we arrived. I was attending one of the fi… Continue reading A New Consultant’s 1st Con – Wild West Hackin Fest – Way West 2021
With rescue and recovery efforts at the horrific condo collapse in Florida this week still underway, we noted with interest some of the technology being employed on the site. Chief …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 4, 2021
An SDR add-on for the Raspberry Pi isn’t a new idea, but the open source cariboulite project looks like a great entry into the field. Even if you aren’t interested …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Hat Adds SDR with High Speed Memory Access
Retro tech is cool. Retro tech that works is even cooler. When we can see technology working, hold it in our hand, and use it as though we’ve been transported …read more Continue reading How to Run a First-Generation Cell Phone Network
Join us on Wednesday, June 2 at noon Pacific for the Satellite Comms Hack Chat with Paul Marsh! All things considered, space isn’t that far away; you could drive the …read more Continue reading Satellite Communications Hack Chat
We loved it a few weeks ago when an international team of hackers managed to record and decode telemetry and images from SpaceX launches. And now it looks like SpaceX …read more Continue reading The Last Days of the Wild West
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