Thanks to Michael Gray it’s possible to have fun playing around with the GNU Radio SDR software without any special hardware, via a bunch of over-the-air captures from a USRP that he has put online. Of course it’s possible to utilise a standard sound card for input instead of using something as specialised as the [...]
Back with Tiger/OS X 10.4 running on a G4 iBook, GNU Radio (GR) compiled without too much effort. A recent post to the GR mailing list suggested however that the task might not be so straightforward with Leopard/OS X 10.5 running on an Intel Mac. Not deterred – or rather wanting to avoid having to [...]
It hasn’t taken me long to arrive at the opinion that upgrading to OS X Leopard (10.5) was a bad idea. This wasn’t something that came about through a desire to be one of the first kids on the block to use Apple’s latest installment of shiny operating system goodness. But rather due the fact [...]
It is with some sadness that I write this post as I make the return trip to Scotland. As today is my first journey on the UK East Coast Mainline with National Express as operator. I’d heard some time ago that GNER had lost the franchise for the route, but had been trying to pretend [...]
The fun had making and experimenting with the ‘light wand’ at our last off-site meeting signaled the start of what is turning out to be a creative and very enjoyable working relationship between myself and PSD. And whenever one of us comes up with the outline for an idea that would require a [...]