It’s the vision that elicited a beatific smile from Alan Turing, a Bela Lugosi-like cackle from John von Neumann, and a cannabis-tinged giggle from 1970s-era PC creators: Imagine a universal machine, ...

Matt Ettus has the sly smile of someone who sees the invisible. His hands fly over the boards of his Universal Software Radio Peripheral, or USRP, snapping them together with an antenna like Lego ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Single HD frame of NBC's Law and Order captured, demoded and decoded via software. More than 100 ...

If you have software-defined radio hardware and you are only using someone elses’ software, you are missing out on half of the fun. [Tech Minds] shows you how easy it can be to roll your own software ...

Your kid has a toy remote control fire truck. You have an RTL SDR. See where this is going? [Jacob] couldn’t resist tearing into the why and how of the truck’s remote control protocol. The entire ...

No doubt most tech and electronic enthusiasts have encountered buzz around SDR, software-defined radio, and asked themselves “what’s the sudden big deal,” if the technology existed for decades? The re ...

Another new piece of hardware gearing up to launch via the Crown Supply website is the StixRF a 70 MHz – 6 GHz SDR receiver, packaged in a small convenient to use USB stick. No timescales or pricing ...