Open source software, radios, and other tech miscellanea...
Recently I've been trying out egui as a possible candidate framework for my SDR project, uda . There's lots I like about egui, and I think its immediate-mode GUI will be nicely suited to SDR which tends to involve lots of visualizations. One type of chart that uda will need is a Waterfall plot , a type of plot that visualizes signal energy in different frequencies over time. egui does not seem to…
One of the topics I hoped to blog about was my design process for software. This post will dive into some speculative planning I've been doing for some open source software I've been thinking about. Lately I've been working on a couple of DSP libraries in Rust. One is Yagi, which will provide core DSP functions (filters, FFT, modulation, and other math). The other is Uda, which will provide a GNU…
I came down with the flu that's been going around and have spent the past few days lethargic and feverish. It has sucked. One of the upsides to not going out much during the pandemic was that I generally wasn't getting sick. But, there is maybe a silver lining to this experience. Being vaguely delirious with fever is a good time to reflect on one's mortality. It makes me appreciate that having…