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Tracking Orangutans With Drones and GNU Radio

Anyway, the TL;DR is that this is a summary of my trip to Borneo in May this year with v2.0 of my drone based orangutan tracking system, developed in partnership with International Animal Rescue (IAR).

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GNU Radio Developers & Users Meetup at 35c3

GNU Radio Users and Developers Meetup at 35c3 Meetup Logo Quick overview of 35c3 35c3 is the 2018 instance of the annual conference of the Chaos Communication Club. It’s happening in Leipzig, Germany from the 27th to the 30th of December, and it hosts around 16·10³ people, all into different topics of technology, security, and effects of technology on privacy, policy and society as a whole.

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Website Update: Goodbye Flask, Hello Hugo!

Once again, we’ve done an overhaul of our website. All web content (that is, excluding the wiki) is now statically generated by Hugo.

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Open-Source Software and SDRs: Alive and Well in 2018

Open-source software initiatives require an active ecosystem of contributors…

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GSoC 2018 MIMO - Week 11 - Final Receiver Structure

After discussing the proposed MIMO-OFDM receiver structure (see post of last week) with my mentors this week, we decided to do some major changes in the structure of the receiver to meet some general requirements.

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GSoC 2018 gr-modtool - Week 10 - Mock GUI

As planned for Week 10, I have created a mock GUI for the modtool. I have also added the commits from the branch yaml, which contained the cli and core modules for the XML to YAML conversion, into the branch swapnil_next​. I have also condensed all the remaining work of the other PRs into the main PR.

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GSoC 2018 MIMO - Week 10 - Designing the MIMO-OFDM Receiver

After finishing the MIMO-OFDM transmitter last week, I approached the receiver this week and thought a lot about its structure. Before I want to propose a structure for the MIMO-OFDM receiver, let us first have a look at the current SISO-OFDM receiver

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GNU Radio v3.7.13.4 Release

Dear Community, we’ve released a new version of our 3.7 maintenance line – 3.7.13.4. Whilst this maintains binary compatibility with its predecessor, it fixes build breakage on systems with boost 1.67, it fixes a bunch of out-of-bound vector accesses (which on some systems triggered bug safeguards which aborted the applications doing them), and it also fixed a bug in how the “Skip Head” block deals with tags.

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GSoC 2018 gr-modtool - Week 9 - XML to YAML Converter

As planned for Week 9, an XML to YAML generator has been added to the modtool. A new CLI command, update, has been added to the existing modtool commands that serves the purpose of conversion of XML scripts to YAML scripts. The functionality can also be achieved through the API class, ModToolUpdate. I would like to thank my mentors and HÃ¥kon VÃ¥gsether for helping me throughout.

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