Open Source and Rural Telecoms

UmTRX is an open source hardware transceiver and a partner project of Myriad-RF, and  the company who developed it, Fairwaves, have been deploying it to to create rural mobile telecoms networks at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. About the project The problems of rural telecoms are…
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DE0-Nano interface board

We’ve had a lot of interest in the DE0-Nano interface board that was announced on the site a few months ago. Unfortunately this board sold out very quickly indeed and Azio are not planning another manufacturing run. However, the design files remain available and anyone is free to manufacture, or…
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Myriad-RF at GNU Radio Conference 2013

The annual GNU Radio Conference starts in just under a week and we’re incredibly excited to be participating for the first time. On the first day there will be a presentation from Alexander Chemeris of Fairwaves on the…
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Our first award recognition

Great news. Myriad has received its first award recognition with the project being named as one of the six best RF technological developments from 2013.  The listing was announced by the industry magazine Electronics Weekly and has been short listed by an independent…
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Nuand’s BladeRF open source platform

Nuand’s bladeRF is an open-source software defined radio that launched earlier this year on the crowd funding website, KickStarter.  The Nuand platform combines USB 3.0 connectivity with a the same FPRF (field programmable RF transceiver) as the Myriad boards. At the heart of the board…
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New distributor on board – Digi-Key

Digi-Key has signed up to the Myriad RF initiative and boards are now available from the major distributor. Which is rather cool. Digi-Key is one of the world’s biggest electronic component distributors so this is fantastic news. To buy a board from Digi-Key go to the site’s product page.
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Open source hardware use is on the rise

2013: the Chinese year of open source? Move over snake, the Chinese calendar may say 2013 is your year, but you’ve been usurped by… Arduino. That’s right, 2013 is the year of open source hardware. This is especially true for open source RF hardware, with the Myriad RF from…
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Raspberry Pi base station

A really good video from PA Consulting on the power of open source hardware being used to cut the development and implementation cost of RF hardware. In this case the company has developed an open source base station using the Raspberry Pi and open source software connected to a…
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Myriad goes to university (s)

Very exciting news indeed. A deal has just been completed that will take Myriad into universities across Europe. The company that set up this open source hardware project has struck an agreement with the STFC’s Europractice project that will see Myriad RF brought to the research faculties and teaching labs…
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FFT software for spectrum analysis

In addition to software upgrades, we’ve also announced new software package that has been designed to receive wireless signals from Myriad RF board and display the data samples in time domain, performing  IQ constellation and real time FFT.(download here). The software can be used as Spectrum Analyser, configuring basic  set-up…
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Myriad software upgrade – v1r0.01 PC stable

We’ve just announced a few upgrades to our Myriad software package, which can be downloaded as a stable file for PCs here. The software update enables user to establish the SPI interface with Myriad RF board…
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And the winners are…

Thanks very much for the many registrations and tweets. The winners will be contacted next week (it’s a bank holiday weekend here in the UK) by email or Twitter. We’ll then have them posted out to you. Look forward to hearing about any projects that you can come up with?…
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