Collaborate Disseminate
‘Hearing voices’ doesn’t have to be worrisome, for instance when software-defined radio (SDR) happens to be your hobby. It can take quite some of your time and attention to pull …read more Continue reading Whispers From The Void, Transcribed With AI
For those living in the continental US who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to an NTP server or a GPS device, the next best way to make sure the …read more Continue reading A Repeater for WWVB
It is perhaps humanity’s most defining trait that we are always striving to build things better, stronger, faster, or bigger than that which came before. Taller skyscrapers, longer bridges, and …read more Continue reading Real-Time Beamforming with Software-Defined Radio
For as mysterious, fascinating, and beautiful as lightning is at a distance, it’s not exactly a peaceful phenomenon up close. Not many things are built to withstand millions of volts …read more Continue reading Neon Lamp Detects Lightning Strikes
Before YouTube, you had to watch your educational videos on film. In the 1970s, if you studied radio, you might have seen the video from Universal Education and Visual Arts, …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: 1970s Radio
You turn the dial on your radio, and hear a powerful source of interference crackle in over the baseline noise. You’re interested as to where it might be coming from. …read more Continue reading Supercon 2024: How To Track Down Radio Transmissions
The world’s militaries have always been at the forefront of communications technology. From trumpets and drums to signal flags and semaphores, anything that allows a military commander to relay orders …read more Continue reading Radio Apocalypse: Meteor Burst Communications
[Bill Dudley] had a problem. He had an Onkyo AV receiver that did a great job… until it didn’t. A DSP inside failed. When that happened, the main microprocessor running …read more Continue reading Onkyo Receiver Saved With An ESP32
[Jamie] decided to build a generator, and Lego is his medium of choice. Thus was created a fancy levitating generator that turns a stream of air into electricity. The basic …read more Continue reading Levitating Lego Generator Runs On Air
GPS is an incredible piece of modern technology. Not only does it allow for locating objects precisely anywhere on the planet, but it also enables the turn-by-turn directions we take …read more Continue reading Writing a GPS Receiver from Scratch