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Progress On My Software-Defined Radio

My homebrew software-defined radio tunes and captures 8MHz of FM broadcast spectrum, and I demodulate it using GNU Radio. Continue reading

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HackRF, A Software-Defined Radio Project

HackRF is a new, low-cost software-defined radio project. Watch this open hardware project, as it is designed and refined before your eyes! Continue reading

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Software Radio Baseband Digitizer PCB

I’m plugging away at building an inexpensive, high-bandwidth software-defined radio receiver. I built a bunch of PLL+VCO boards, filter boards, and quadrature mixer boards. But I still don’t have a good ADC to sample the signals I’m receiving. No longer! … Continue reading

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Signals from Space! (part 3)

In the last two parts, I used my homebrew software-defined radio to receive weather image signals from the NOAA-19 satellite and spent some time trying to calculate the satellite’s speed using frequency shift measurements. This time around, I’m going to … Continue reading

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Signals from Space! (part 2, and a Chronulator contest)

Quick recap: In part 1, I captured weather satellite signals with my software-defined radio prototype, using the audio input on my laptop. So, what can be done with these captured signals? The first thing I did after recording the NOAA-19 … Continue reading

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Signals from Space! (part 1)

I attempt to receive weather satellite signals with my software radio prototype — with surprisingly good results! Continue reading

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Software-Defined Radio Receiver: first signals!

I’m building a 100MHz to 1GHz software-defined radio receiver, trying to keep it as small and affordable as possible, while still being very flexible. Today my prototype hardware produced its first signals! Continue reading

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Breaking the Silence: Missiles, Radios, Toys and Cars

No more “Quiet Blog Syndrome!” What we’ve been up to at ShareBrained (hacking radio, designing toys, and racing cars), and how these things might turn up as ShareBrained projects. Continue reading

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