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congratulations to the team for the hard work and dedication to taking one step closer to a truly open source ap. but BladeRF is pushing...a thousand dollars..
by nimbius 6y ago
congratulations to the team for the hard work and dedication to taking one step closer to a truly open source ap.
but BladeRF is pushing...a thousand dollars...too rich for most :(
- the_only_law 6y agoMy very limited knowledge of SDR’s from when I was researching a project is that for a lot of use cases, the cheap ones just don’t have the bandwidth or frequency range. I ended up getting a limesdr which was enough to serve my needs, but it was still around $400 for the usb version.
- jacquesm 6y agohttps://www.nuand.com/product/bladerf-xa4/ https://www.nuand.com/product/bladerf-xa4/ $480 for the smallest. And while too rich for most is one way to look at it, another is that $1K would not even buy you a proper monitor all that long ago, and that this is a very low volume production. I think the price point is actually quite impressive, I expected it to cost substantially more, especially given the BOM, there are some pretty impressive bits on there, and those connectors and PCB are also not exactly free.
- invokestatic 6y agoI do not think wiphy runs on the xA4 because the FPGA is not powerful enough. So if you want to run this project, you'll need to shell out at least $720 for the xA9. I probably will.