As Twitter descends into hellhole that Elon Musk is making it into, more hams are showing up on Mastodon, a “non-profit, abuse-free social network based on open web standards and principles.” I am @[email protected]. Mastodon.Radio is a space for the amateur (ham) radio community and anyone interested in shortwave listening (SWL). It’s run by Christopher, M0YNG. Thanks, Chris!
I’m finding it actually more interesting than Twitter for ham radio kinds of things. Here are three things that were in my feed yesterday.
FutureSDR WebAssembly SDR Live Coding
The author of FutureSDR, Bastian Bloessl, describes FutureSDR, as:
An experimental asynchronous SDR runtime for heterogeneous architectures that is:
- Extensible: custom buffers (supporting accelerators like GPUs and FPGAs) and custom schedulers (optimized for your application).
- Asynchronous: solving long-standing issues around IO, blocking, and timers.
- Portable: Linux, Windows, Mac, WASM, Android, and prime support for embedded platforms through a REST API and web-based GUIs.
- Fast: SDR go brrr!
Here, he does a little live coding that some of you might find interesting.
Open Ear
OpenEar is an open source ear training app for musicians that runs on Android phones and tablets. It includes exercises to help musicians master recognizing musical patterns. I’m wondering if it might also help those learning Morse Code. If you do download it and try it, let me know.
WTF?
Flashdancer (@[email protected]) shared this photo, noting, “I’m assuming that 403 years ago this person died very unexpectedly.”
