Why is this a breakthrough? Just because the platform costs under $100?
This was worth upper 4- to 5-digit of dollars of equipment before.
I work in this industry and sold more than one kidney for this stuff.
Same for the ESP-SDR project. Most likely it can be used for transmitting on S-Band for satellite control in the future (with an amplifier, dish, maybe some filtering). The HF-Frontend is Wi-Fi certified and therefore quite clean. I've forwarded this project to a friend who's close to ESA staff.
Yes. That's a very modern design. Lots of MIMO.. so I assume you will find that beast in cellular base stations.
I'd more see it as a huge jump in the higher frequencies.
>2GHz basically became cheap now over night.
Thanks to Claude&co. it now only takes maybe a few hours to find (or brute force ) potential registers to spit out raw I/Q streams. The last huge breakthrough there was the now rather old Rtlsdr project around the Osmocom dudes.
OpenAI seething that they didn’t pick a fucking name for their platform.
The Rigol DHO800 has 1.25Gbps 12 bit ADC and cost less than $500, that is entire machine. I doubt the ADC parts cost more than 10% of machine.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/09/06/2024-19...
"A resolution of 12 bit or more, but less than 14 bit, with a “sample rate” greater than 400 MSPS;"