Packetry Preview

Note: This is a crosspost of a Cynthion update on Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/great-scott-gadgets/luna/updates/packetry-preview

Due to the delays caused by the chip shortage, there’s not been a lot to report on the LUNA hardware front recently – but behind the scenes, we’ve been hard at work on the software stack which will accompany it. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be making some more updates about that work.

One of LUNA’s key features is its ability to act as a passive sniffer: it can be connected between a computer and the USB devices connected to it, capturing all the traffic between them. This...

Free Stuff - September 2022

The September recipient for the Great Scott Gadgets Free Stuff Program is Brett! Brett volunteers at the Wasatch 100 in Utah. The Wasatch 100 is a 100 mile endurance run through the Wasatch National Forest. Brett is planning to use the HackRF One we are sending him to streamline the race aid station communications. We look forward to seeing the solution he comes up with.

OsmoDevCall: "Osmocom SIMtrace2 Tutorial"

I've presented an SIMtrace2 Tutorial - SIM protocol tracing: how and why as part of the OsmoDevCall talk series on Osmocom and related technology.

You can find the video recording at https://media.ccc.de/v/osmodevcall-20221019-laforge-simtrace2-tutorial

InfiniTime 1.11

We released InfiniTime 1.11 a few days ago. The timing of the release did not align with the monthly community update, so we decided to write a small blog post to highlight a few new features and provide new about the PineTime community!

October update: An Ox, no bull

I hope that the good news and all the announcements of this month will make up for the much delayed publication date - which is something I sincerely apologize for. This month we’re announcing the Ox64 - a sub $10 Linux capable single board computer, we are bringing you news that both the Star64 and QuartzPro64 now boot Linux (and run it well too already!) and share all the latest PinePhone Pro development. 

Introducing Opera Cake

Starting this week, we are shipping Opera Cake, our multi-use antenna-switching add-on for HackRF One!

This add-on board has two primary ports, each connected to any of eight secondary ports, and it is optimized for use as a pair of 1x4 switches or as a single 1x8 switch.

As a 1x8 switch, Opera Cake can connect your HackRF to a variety of antennas at once, such as a long wire antenna for HF bands, a discone for VHF and UHF, a dipole for 2.4 GHz, and a dish for a satellite band. Once connected to your Opera Cake you can switch between...

Pseudo-Doppler Redux, ShmooCon 2018

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/6wF6g2f8aIQ

Back in 2018 Michael Ossmann teamed up with Schuyler St. Leger at ShmooCon to present “Pseudo-Doppler Redux”; a talk about taking a modern approach to the implementation of pseudo-doppler direction finding (DF) with Software Defined Radio (SDR). This presentation demonstrates what pseudo-doppler direction finding is and gives an example of Opera Cake usage.

We hope you enjoy watching the presentation!

Deployment of future community TDMoIP hub

I've mentioned some of my various retronetworking projects in some past blog posts. One of those projects is Osmocom Community TDM over IP (OCTOI). During the past 5 or so months, we have been using a number of GPS-synchronized open source icE1usb interconnected by a new, efficient but strill transparent TDMoIP protocol in order to run a distributed TDM/PDH network. This network is currently only used to provide ISDN services to retronetworking enthusiasts, but other uses like frame relay have also been validated.

So far, the central hub of this OCTOI network has been operating in the basement of my home, behind a consumer-grade DOCSIS cable modem connection....

Harald "LaF0rge" Welte: Deployment of future community TDMoIP hub

I've mentioned some of my various retronetworking projects in some past blog posts. One of those projects is Osmocom Community TDM over IP (OCTOI). During the past 5 or so months, we have been using a number of GPS-synchronized open source icE1usb interconnected by a new, efficient but strill transparent TDMoIP protocol in order to run a distributed TDM/PDH network. This network is currently only used to provide ISDN services to retronetworking enthusiasts, but other uses like frame relay have also been validated.

So far, the central hub of this OCTOI network has been operating in the basement of my home, behind a consumer-grade DOCSIS cable modem connection....

Паттерн внедрение зависимостей в .NET nanoFramework для микроконтроллеров

Сегодня сломаем привычный мир инженеров и разработчиков встраиваемых систем на микроконтроллерах. В .NET существует замечательный паттерн программирования, как внедрение зависимостей (Dependency injection, DI). Суть паттерна заключается в предоставление механизма, который позволяет сделать взаимодействующие в приложение объекты слабосвязанными. Эти объекты будут связаны между собой через абстракции, например, через интерфейсы, что делает всю систему более гибкой, более адаптируемой и расширяемой. Но когда ведется разработка для микроконтроллеров, все зависимости обычно жестко завязаны на используемых устройствах, и замена датчика иногда приводит к существенному переписыванию программного кода. Напишем приложение на .NET nanoFramework для микроконтроллера ESP32, используя паттерн DI с возможностью легкой замены датчиков и LCD...