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It sounds interesting. Beyond controlling RC vehicles, what would be some applications of software defined radios (SDRs)? By the way, it looks like a USB-VGA d
by apo 8y ago
It sounds interesting. Beyond controlling RC vehicles, what would be some applications of software defined radios (SDRs)?
By the way, it looks like a USB-VGA dongle can be manipulated in a similar way:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16907260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16907260
- krallja 8y agoAM & FM audio transmission Amateur TV Ham radio Point-to-point communication Radio telescopy Receiving satellite signals Lots of opportunities to reverse engineer existing signals
- entity345 8y agoThere are not many commercial applications because it is usually much cheaper to implement in hardware and flexibility is not important.
- dfox 8y agoWe used to half joke that graphics card is in fact nothing more than very good and cheap DDS signal generator. And as for SDR applications: most of modern radio devices use software defined radios and many modern radio interfaces cannot be reasonably implemented in any other way.
- jedimastert 8y agoA YouTube channel called The Thought Emporium has a series about using a sdr called the HackRF to make a radio telescope and a satellite receiver for a few weather sats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGWFg7EDnyY&list=PLZLsjPxmF1BEi7vH6Qo9lHMLW0WKdjDEV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGWFg7EDnyY&list=PLZLsjPxmF1...