OTA: CrowdCell Hackathon, LimeSDR Projects, Alphabet’s Loon, and More

Vodafone and Lime Microsystems have announced the first in a planned series of annual hackathon events designed to benefit the Telecom Infra Project, focused on developing on top of the LimeSDR powered CrowdCell platform. A part of the Telecom Infra Project, which aims to drive innovation in the telecommunications arena…
Alphabet's Project Loon

OTA: Cave Rescue Radios, Spectrum Pricing, Clones, and More

This fortnight’s big news was, of course, the successful rescue of 12 children and one adult stranded in a Thai cave by flooding, and there’s a surprise twist in the tale: the rescue was carried out using USB radio transceivers designed by a radio ham. Hackaday explains that members…
Virginia Tech SDR-based GPS spoofer

OTA: LoRa Testing, Homebrew Antennas, Reactor Monitoring, and More

Engineer Mark Zachmann has posted of his work using the LimeSDR Mini to test low-power long-range LoRa radios, as part of an Internet of Things (IoT) project. “I’m working on a LoRa system at 915MHz. LoRa is a frequency modulation method used on low power IOT devices. Being able to…
Acoustic Communications at Argonne National Laboratory