Up on Kickstarter, [Michael Ossmann] is launching the HackRF, an inordinately cheap, exceedingly capable software defined radio tool that’s small enough to lose in your laptop bag. The HackRF was the ...

HackRF is an open-source USB-powered software-defined radio (SDR) peripheral able to transmit or receive radio signals ranging from 30 to 6,000 MHz. The project aims to create a single software ...

Since the days of Alan Turing, the promise of a digital computer has been that of a universal machine, one that can be a word processor one minute and a robot brain the next. So why are radios, a ...

Generations of hobbyists hardware hackers have spent countless hours messing with piles of radio gear, happily tinkering away in garages and basements looking for new ways to connect to people around ...

Most wireless gadgets, like the 3G antenna in a phone, operate using a fixed radio frequency band. But HackRF could potentially receive and transmit any radio frequency from 100 megahertz to 6 ...

When it comes to electromagnetic waves, humans can really only directly perceive a very small part of the overall spectrum, ...