Hackaday Europe 2026: High Performance SDR On The Cheap

Radios were once big complicated appliances, full of warm valves and paper-wrapped capacitors, all humming and glowing to capture signals from the aether and spit them out of a speaker. Every component was chosen to build the radio to suit a particular purpose. These days, we have altogether fancier technology that lets us build radios that can be reconfigured on the fly; software-defined radios, if you will.