Collaborate Disseminate
With the mystery of fast radio bursts looking increasingly solved, astronomers need a new cosmic conundrum to ponder. And right on cue, a brand new noodle-scratcher has emerged from the depths of space – everyone, meet “odd radio circles,” or ORCs.Cont… Continue reading “Odd radio circles” are the latest cosmic mystery to stump astronomers
Researcher Ian Beer from Google Project Zero took six months to figure out the radio-proximity exploit of a memory corruption bug that was patched in May. Continue reading iPhone Bug Allowed for Complete Device Takeover Over the Air
A solar eclipse is coming up in just a few weeks, and although with its path of totality near the southern tip of South America means that not many people will be able to see it first-hand, there is an opportunity to get involved with it even at an extreme …read more
For two decades the Japanese VERA radio astronomy project has been gathering data to build up a 3D map of the position and velocity of objects revolving in our galaxy. The latest analysis indicates that the Earth is 2,000 light-years closer to the cent… Continue reading Earth is 2,000 light-years closer to galactic center than we thought
The HackRF is an exceptionally capable software defined radio (SDR) transceiver, but naturally you need to connect it to a computer to actually do anything with it. So the PortaPack was developed to turn it into a stand-alone device with the addition of a touchscreen LCD, a few buttons, and …read more
Continue reading HackRF PortaPack Firmware Spoofs All the Things
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
I suppose most of us have had the experience of going to the mailbox and seeing that telltale package in the white plastic bag, the sign that something has just arrived from China. This happened to me the other day, and like many of you it was one of those …read more
Continue reading Product Review: The tinySA, a Shirt-Pocket Sized Spectrum Analyzer
WiFi is an ubiquitous feature of the modern landscape, but due to power restrictions on most hardware alongside the high-frequency signal it’s typically fairly limited in range. This of course leads to frustration where a WiFi signal can be seen, but the connection is unreliable or slow. While most would …read more
Continue reading Long Range WiFi Broadcasts Open-Source Video Conferencing
Sweden’s Teenage Engineering already has a bit of a rep for out-of-the-box-thinking, but is perhaps best known for its digital instruments. Now the firm has added a radio into the mix for the Ortho Book 4.Continue ReadingCategory: Home Entertainment, T… Continue reading Teenage Engineering breaks out radio, instrument and speaker mashup
Sweden’s Teenage Engineering already has a bit of a rep for out-of-the-box-thinking, but is perhaps best known for its digital instruments. Now the firm has added a radio into the mix for the Ortho Book 4.Continue ReadingCategory: Home Entertainment, T… Continue reading Teenage Engineering breaks out radio, instrument and speaker mashup