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  • Our 5th birthday is 6 March 2024 and we will be celebrating!

    → 9:00 PM, Dec 30
  • Happy Solstice and Holiday Season to all!

    We closed our #RFBitBanger Solstice Special with 36 kits that will go out as soon as we can kit them up.

    64 kits will be available on our eBay store in January 2024 for $175, shipping calculated separately.

    Thank you for supporting Batch 2!

    → 11:08 AM, Dec 24
  • Today’s #fpga meetup video recording can be found here: youtu.be/9F5q48_El…

    → 1:58 PM, Dec 19
  • 3 more days on our #RFBitBanger #HF #QRP #digital #Kit special.

    #opensource #hamradio results delivered to you.

    us.commitchange.com/ca/san-di…

    → 10:13 AM, Dec 18
  • Our most recent GEO/HEO #hamradio capable #opensource #communications #satellite meetup video recording is available. See how the sausage is made.

    Questions? Comments? Complaints? All are welcome at ori at openresearch dot institute.

    youtu.be/nq0Dpj02C…

    → 10:11 AM, Dec 13
  • Here is another example of what we do. Thank you to those that have made this humanitarian radio project happen.

    Our next Inner Circle newsletter will focus on #Ribbit.

    Have some PWA skills? Want to be part of something that will actually change the world?

    ribbitradio.org

    → 9:32 AM, Dec 12
  • Video recording of this week’s meetup about #Haifuraiya progress below. This #opensource microwave broadband transponder has space & terrestrial applications.

    Prototype works on the #hamradio microwave bands. Thank you to Analog Devices and AMD for the support this week.

    youtu.be/A62PU_XN8…

    → 9:46 AM, Dec 8
  • #RFBitBanger kits are available.

    #opensource #hamradio

    us.commitchange.com/ca/san-di…

    → 12:36 PM, Nov 28
  • Looking for a #STEM gift for someone in your life that loves #radio and building things? You can support high quality #opensource work at the same time with the #RFBitBanger #QRP kit.

    us.commitchange.com/ca/san-di…

    → 10:15 AM, Nov 27
  • Batch 2 of the #rfbitbanger #hamradio #qrp #kit available now at us.commitchange.com/ca/san-di…

    → 12:51 PM, Oct 31
  • Comments from ORI to the FCC on Advancing Understanding of Non-Federal Spectrum Usage

    If you haven’t had a chance to read the comments we filed with the FCC about non-federal #spectrum usage, then they can be found below. The ORI website update (linked below) includes the direct link to the PDF at the FCC, as well as the text. 

    Thank you to everyone that participated in this effort! We could not do this sort of work without you all. A special thank you to the ORI board for the support and direction. 

    We cited the amateur radio #FT8 mode, #WSJT-X, Grid Tracker, #SatNOGS, Dr. Estevez’s #MAIA #SDR software, Analog Devices PLUTO hardware, the #RTL-SDR, Web SDRs, and more to illustrate how non-commercial hardware and software can address fundamentally important questions at the United States FCC.

    www.openresearch.institute/2023/10/2…

    Our CEO will be an invited speaker about this exact issue, and more, at an upcoming IEEE USA CHIPS act event in San Diego, CA.

    → 9:50 AM, Oct 24
  • An FCC comment has been filed.

    www.fcc.gov/ecfs/fili…

    → 8:33 AM, Oct 10
  • Our most recent #fpga meetup video recording has been published.

    www.youtube.com/@OpenRese…

    → 7:23 PM, Oct 5
  • ORI is an innovative and welcoming organization, where technical work in #hamradio is enthusiastically encouraged.

    We have teams, projects, support, education, professional development, and a newsletter.

    Our most recent #FPGA meetup video recording:

    youtu.be/ukawddVJT…

    → 9:02 AM, Sep 30
  • ORI at QSO Today Academy 9-10 September 2023

    Open Research Institute presents two talks and an organizational showcase at the 9-10 September QSO Today Academy this upcoming weekend. www.qsotodayhamexpo.com

    This online event features a broad array of amateur radio talks. The speakers are engaging and inspiring. Q&A, connection, and conversation are a priority at QSO Today.

    See Dr. Daniel Marks speak about the RFBitBanger project and the SCAMP mode at 1300 US Pacific Time on 9 September. Details of the talk can be found at https://wze95h.qsotodayhamexpo.com/sessionInfo/_the_rfbitbanger_an_off_the_grid_emergency and the repository for this ORI project is github.com/profdc9/R…

    See Michelle Thompson speak about A Shortened HF Antenna at 0900 US Pacific Time on 9 September. Details of this talk can be found at wze95h.qsotodayhamexpo.com/sessionIn… and the ORI repository for this project is github.com/OpenResea…

    Please visit Open Research Institute’s exhibit at QSO Today Academy from the main portal.

    Thank you to everyone that supports work at ORI.

    → 1:18 PM, Sep 7
  • Bandpass filter boards for the #RFBitBanger have arrived. Batch 1 boards are black in color in honor of being launched at #defcon. Shown are the front and the back, with white text annotations for the capacitors, toroids, and connectors.

    → 10:30 AM, Sep 7
  • We reject censorship, exclusion, toxic politics, and silly turf wars in #hamradio.

    We help people get their projects completed. We do basic R&D in #opensource #digital #radio. We participate in the #regulatory process.

    Join our movement here: openresearch.institute/getting-s…

    → 7:50 AM, Sep 2
  • The #flexradio 6400 has been claimed. More surplus gear will be available for donations very soon.

    → 4:13 PM, Sep 1
  • 6400 with ATU kit and GPSDO upgrade:

    www.ebay.com/itm/36444…

    → 1:18 PM, Aug 29
  • Surplus FlexRadio 6600 available

    www.ebay.com/itm/36444…

    → 11:06 AM, Aug 29
  • The latest Inner Circle newsletter goes out tomorrow.

    www.openresearch.institute/newslette…

    Thank you to those that support our work.

    → 9:39 PM, Aug 27
  • Comments Solicited

    New Inner Circle Newsletter goes out tomorrow.

    www.openresearch.institute/newslette…

    Thank you to everyone that supports our work!

    → 9:37 PM, Aug 27
  • Comments Solicited

    Open Research Institute will have a Board of Directors meeting Tuesday 22 August 2023 at 1000 US Pacific. Agenda includes appointment of directors for the upcoming term, a vote on an insurance policy, and discussion of a launch opportunity.

    → 4:25 PM, Aug 21
  • Comments Solicited

    www.regulations.gov/document/…

    “The Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) invite public comments on areas of long-term focus and prioritization on open-source software security.”

    This has been received as being of great importance to CISA, ARSF, AREDN, and other significant contributors to the Amateur Radio Service.

    If you are interested in forming a working group about this RFI in order to provide comments from ORI then please get in touch via email ori@openresearch.institute

    → 10:52 AM, Aug 20
  • Another day of live #opensource digital radio demos at #defcon31 starts soon in the RF Village. Drop by the Flamingo before 6pm.

    RF Village is the home of the RF CTF and has its own dedicated speaking track.

    → 8:22 AM, Aug 12
  • RFBitBanger Kits Available: DEFCON31 Show Special

    • Built-in digital modes: CW, RTTY, SCAMP (FSK and OOK, multiple speeds)
    • Key jack supports straight keys and iambic paddles
    • #OpenSource hardware and firmware, Arduino UNO compatible github.com/profdc9/R…
    • External sound-card FSK digital modes supported (including FT4/FT8)
    • Experimental SSB support
    • Serial port support (2400 baud) for send and receive in keyboard modes

    Want one? Go here:

    us.commitchange.com/ca/san-di…

    → 7:11 AM, Aug 9
  • Visit our live #RFBitBanger QRP HF radio demonstrations at RF Village at #DEFCON31 11-13 August 2023.

    Learn more about this radio and find out how to get a kit you can build here: us.commitchange.com/ca/san-di…

    → 2:49 PM, Aug 8
  • The Federal Communications Commission Technological Advisory Council report from the Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Working Group final version has been delivered.

    It was an honor and privilege to be a part of it this effort. We look forward to applying for membership in the next charter of the TAC.

    → 7:25 AM, Aug 8
  • Updated #vhdl #fpga repository for Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing #cobs decoder.

    github.com/OpenResea…

    #ThankYou to all who support our work.

    → 7:08 PM, Aug 2
  • Neptune Update

    There’s two paths forward, each with two blockers, on #neptune (#opensource drone datalink using #hamradio bands).

    1. 2021.1 Petalinux build, where the #ADI #MATLAB transceiver toolbox works, but the #ADI TES profiles do not work.

    2. 2022.2 Petalinux build, where the #ADI #MATLAB transceiver toolbox doesn’t work, but the #ADI TES profile is correct.

    If you can help, please get in touch. We’ve got great things going on and want to demonstrate them on this hardware.

    → 8:34 AM, Jul 26
  • Meeting of the #FCC Technological Advisory Council on Dynamic #Spectrum Sharing has begun. The group meets weekly and is drafting a document about DSS with respect to FCC regulatory needs.

    → 12:05 PM, Jul 11
  • ORI accepts donations of Bitcoin

    Need to get something off your chest or out of your wallet?

    We can convert #Bitcoin to productive #OpenSource work.

    The QR code for our Bitcoin receive account.
    → 7:18 AM, Jul 10
  • 1 August is the deadline for submitting a talk to QSO Today Academy (was Ham Expo). Event is 9-10 September 2023.

    www.qsotodayhamexpo.com/speakerca…

    Great opportunity, wonderful crowd of attendees, and they enforce their code of conduct. It’s a safe and positive experience.

    #hamradio

    → 6:01 PM, Jul 9
  • Our next event with demonstrations will be at #DEFCON31

    defcon.org

    Catch us at RF Village #OpenSource Showcase.

    rfhackers.com

    → 8:33 AM, Jul 9
  • DEFCON31 pre-registration closes 5 July 2023 - ORI at RF Village

    If you are helping us at #DEFCON31, please know that pre-registration closes tomorrow 5 July. You’ll have to line up for tickets at the event (aka “linecon”) if you don’t go ahead and buy them in advance by tomorrow.

    ORI will be in RF Village, we’ll be a (limited) vendor this year (yay!), and we’ll have hands-down the best #hamradio band demonstrations at this massive event.

    Please sign up to help out at the tables. Many hands make light work. We’ll have #RibbitRadio, #RFBitBanger, Kent Britain’s PCB antennas, #Haifuraiya, #OpulentVoice, and whatever else we can cram into the van.

    10-13 August 2023 defcon.org

    Get in touch - it’s a fantastic event for open source digital radio. #DEFCON is the site of the largest amateur radio exam session on record in the US, eclipsing #Hamvention. Attendees are diverse, educated, and technically advanced, unlike traditional ham radio events.

    DEFCON also has a strictly enforced code of conduct, so it’s safe to attend and volunteer for.

    → 9:29 AM, Jul 4
  • An article about our Opulent Voice project has been published by #ARRL #QEX

    Click “contents” over at www.arrl.org/this-mont…

    Let us know what you think of the article.

    → 12:52 PM, Jun 26
  • Volunteer Opportunities This Week at ORI

    Our CEO Michelle Thompson W5NYV has received an award.

    Thank you Michelle, and congratulations to all recipients.

    www.sdbj.com/issues/wo…

    → 11:35 AM, Jun 19
  • Volunteer Opportunities This Week at ORI

    Greetings all!

    What do you need help with this week?

    Here’s some opportunities at ORI.

    1. Pierre and Ahmet are looking for people to help with mobile app design on #Ribbit. 

    The Ribbit Radio app is in both Android and Apple testing. The updates to #Rattlegram are incorporated into Ribbit Radio and the app is functional on both platforms. We have had excellent response for test teams and things are moving forward.

    To make the app as great as it can be, we could use some additional human resources for UX/UI/code development. If this sounds like something you are interested in, please join #ribbit on our Slack or write to me directly and I’ll get you in touch with the team leads. 

    1. #DEFCON volunteers for the booth/exhibit. We’ve got just enough people to cover it. It’s a great event. We have solid support from RF Village and we advertise to Ham Radio Village. If you have been sitting on the sidelines waiting for a chance to do something for ORI, this is the best event of the year. 

    defcon.org for details about DEFCON 10-13 August 2023 wirelessvillage.ninja for details about our Village, RF Hackers Sanctuary.

    1. FPGA designs for #Haifuraiya and #Neptune. Want to use MATLAB/Simulink, VHDL, and Verilog to make open source digital communications designs for aerospace, terrestrial, and drones? These designs run on updated FPGA stations in ORI Remote Labs, and everything is on the microwave amateur radio bands. When you see microwave frequencies mentioned, then it’s good to also say that “we use these bands or lose them”. We’ve got plenty to do. Get in touch on #haifuraiya or #neptune on Slack or to any ORI director. 

    2. Meander Dipole construction phase. Project #Dumbbell explores an overlooked HF antenna design. There’s been strong interest in these designs from multiple people (some of which are on this list), clubs, and organizations. We need to build the designs that #MATLAB says look pretty good. Time to make it work over the air and write up some construction and measured performance articles.  As always, there’s plenty more going on, but these projects have some specific needs, today. 

    Thank you to everyone that supports our work. I’d like to especially thank the #IEEE and #ARRL for being excellent partners to ORI. 

    -Michelle Thompson

    → 9:16 AM, Jun 5
  • Tune in to our current Project Lineup with this 2 minute video.

    youtu.be/cdo6Zb03S…

    → 5:35 PM, Jun 3
  • Thank you to all our volunteers!

    Summary of projects at ORI and open Q&A. Office Hours video recording below:

    youtu.be/rvIUkvEUX…

    → 12:42 PM, Jun 2
  • Office Hours 30 May 2023

    Our regular meetup for #opensource digital radio work happens in about a half hour.

    We’ll have a roundup of projects and open discussion about advanced digital communications amateur radio project work.

    What’s not in the slides yet is the Digital Spark Gap project (NVIS HF signals intelligence) and a Polynomial Signal Representation proof of concept with RVJ Institute.

    We started a repo for the polynomial work here: https://github.com/OpenResearchInstitute/Polynomial_Signals_Representation

    And, some work happened yesterday to move things along towards some tractable demos with cubic polynomial splines. There’s a big role here for open source digital radio, since that’s where a lot of progress in polynomial signals representation came from in the first place.

    If you can join us, please do, if not, the recording will as always be on our YouTube account here: www.youtube.com/openresea…

    → 9:42 AM, May 30
  • Want to talk about #fpga and #hamradio and #innovative #opensource #digital work?

    Our weekly meetup is happening in a half hour.

    Want to be involved?

    openresearch.institute/getting-s…

    → 9:25 AM, May 23
  • Remote Labs Updates and Upgrades at ORI

    Message from our CEO, Michelle Thompson, about Remote Lab updates at ORI:

    Hello everyone!

    We’ve upgraded our FPGA stations in Remote Lab West. This will ripple outward to Remote Lab South as well.

    There are three stations now available remotely. Free for #opensource work, with dedicated volunteer staff.

    1. Xilinx zc706 + Analog Devices ADRV9009 Intended to continue support for space and terrestrial broadband transceiver work for Haifuraiya and similar projects.

    2. Xilinx zcu102 + Analog Devices ADRV9002 Intended to serve Neptune, the OFDM low-latency drone and aerospace datalink project, and similar projects.

    3. Analog Devices PLUTO SDR Remote JTAG access.

    The Analog Devices ADRV9371 will be retired and offered for sale.

    The zcu106 has been set aside in reserve upon request. The video chip on the zcu106 is desirable for Neptune, but the zcu102 has much better tools support at this time.

    The Trenz gear for the ADRV9371 will be offered for sale.

    The USRP X310 will be retired and offered for sale.

    Why?

    The 9371 did not get designed in to long-term commercial work out there in the marketplace like it looked like it would. It’s an excellent chip with JESD204B interface and a lot of solid design.

    The 9009 is a successor to the 9371 and has been designed into long-term commercial products. It has JESD204B interface as well and it did get support in the market that the 9371 did not manage to get. It’s much easier for us as an amateur and volunteer project to adapt to the 9009 than to keep doing extra work to use the 9371. We have already seen the benefits in terms of quicker response from Analog Devices, Mathworks, and active individual developers with respect to the 9009 path than the 9371.

    The 9002 was selected for drone and aerospace applications and has good support.

    If you’re on #fpga or #neptune you can see the progress in getting these stations accessible and our blocks integrated and demos working over the air.

    Thank you to the many people making difficult and ambitious work like this possible! There is a very long list of people to thank, from individuals in the community, to participants on the project teams, to the companies and organizations we collaborate and work with, and multiple foundations that have generously funded our work.

    Want to get more involved?

    www.openresearch.institute/getting-s…

    → 11:36 AM, May 22
  • github.com/OpenResea…

    #Neptune repository is live. The most recent protocol specification has been uploaded. Plenty to follow.

    Thank you to everyone that supports ORI’s work.

    → 11:39 AM, May 18
  • Video recording of today’s #FPGA Meetup.

    youtu.be/0uURem3tq…

    → 12:43 PM, May 9
  • Today’s check-in for the @MATLAB HDL Coder for Software Defined Radio class went very well. Theory about #FPGA and #DSP digital communications will be Tuesday-Wednesday and lab sessions Thursday-Friday.

    → 11:04 AM, May 1
  • If you have technical or outreach reports then please send them in. Friday is our “documentation day”. Having a regularly scheduled time for writing things down has saved nearly every one of our teams a lot of work over time.

    What’s on your mind?

    → 8:16 AM, Apr 28
  • #OpenSource Digital Radio #IEEE Group Announced

    A new #opensource group for #digital #communications has formed in #IEEE. This looks to be the first dedicated Open Source #hamradio friendly group in largest engineering professional society in the world.

    You do not need to be a member of #IEEE to join the Collabratec workspace linked below.

    ieee-collabratec.ieee.org/app/works…

    → 7:48 AM, Apr 27
  • Neptune Project Announced

    #Neptune is an #opensource implementation of an open protocol for high-throughput multimedia #drone communications from Open Research Institute. This protocol directly competes against the proprietary designs from DJI.

    Implementation prototypes use the #Xilinx Ultrascale+ and Analog Devices 9002 RFSOC. These development boards are accessible at no cost through ORI Remote Labs West. #Hamradio bands will be used to the fullest extent. Full #Vivado and #MATLAB licenses are included.

    A review of the #OFDM based physical layer draft specification will happen shortly and invitations are going out now. Participants must be proficient with the design review process, understand OFDM, accept our developer and participant code of conduct, and support open source work.

    To join as a participant please visit openresearch.institute/getting-s…

    Join the #neptune channel on ORI Slack.

    To keep informed about our work you should know about our newsletter at www.openresearch.institute/newslette…

    Thank you to everyone that has made this innovative and groundbreaking project possible. We deeply appreciate your support and we will be successful with this design.

    → 10:48 AM, Apr 25
  • Neptune has the strongest winds in the Solar System, with speeds over 2,000 kilometers per hour. It’s also the coldest planet, with temperatures as low as -220 degrees Celsius.

    #NeptuneProjectCountdown

    → 2:28 PM, Apr 24
  • It’s Missile Knows Where It Is Monday, and all of us hope you find your target this week.

    www.youtube.com/watch

    → 8:18 AM, Apr 24
  • Reminder of a fun event in San Diego, CA, USA coming up for #hamradio operators coming to #IMS2023

    ims-ieee.org/node/434

    → 9:26 AM, Apr 21
  • #FCC TAC AI/ML Working Group resumes next week. We will be co-hosting the Safe Uses of AI/ML sub-working group through September, and assisting in a white paper and regulatory recommendations.

    #regulatory

    → 5:29 PM, Apr 19
  • The Case of the Misbehaving Interleaver

    #bug #opensource #cpp #coding #programming #hamradio #digital #satellite

    youtu.be/PU2FDCpmS…

    → 10:03 AM, Apr 17
  • Want to learn more about how commercial interests are using #AI and #ML?

    We’re community partners with O’Reilly Media, and they have a report that might be of interest to you.

    www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/3…

    → 9:53 AM, Apr 16
  • HDL Coder for Software Defined Radio class has sold out.

    Thank you to everyone that helped spread the word.

    → 8:34 AM, Apr 16
  • Happy Friday!

    Today is #documentation day at ORI and we have a lot of great things in the works.

    Have a great weekend. Thank you to everyone that supports our #opensource #digital #radio work.

    → 11:09 AM, Apr 14
  • We’re about halfway full for our HDL Coder for Software Defined Radio class.

    Please help spread the word. Details below.

    us.commitchange.com/ca/san-di…

    → 10:14 AM, Apr 13
  • Thank you to our community for the great response!

    We have 5 students for the HDL Coder for Software Defined Radio Class and can accommodate 7 more.

    Please help spread the word.

    us.commitchange.com/ca/san-di…

    → 9:28 AM, Apr 13
  • An archive of our newsletters can be found at www.openresearch.institute/newslette…

    → 11:53 AM, Apr 11
  • us.commitchange.com/ca/san-di…

    HDL Coder for Software Defined Radio: Taught by Mathworks, presented by ORI.

    Training for #opensource #hamradio work. Please forward the link to anyone you think would benefit.

    → 11:11 AM, Apr 11
  • We are proud to present our April 2023 Inner Circle newsletter, featuring Dr. Daniel Estevez and his case study of #Amaranth and Maia #SDR.

    mailchi.mp/db8a4ece0…

    #opensource #hamradio #digital #communciations #pluto

    → 10:33 AM, Apr 11
  • Remote Labs update: ADRV9002-EVAL #transceiver board physically installed on the ZCU106 Xilinx UltraScale+ board, with an aluminum sheet for structure. Connected to the VM Keroppi in Remote Lab West. Not powered up yet.

    → 11:14 AM, Apr 9
  • #RFBitBanger prototyping digs into the details of iambic paddle support. More display boards have been built and testing continues.

    Thank you to everyone supporting this #digital #HF #QRP kit project.

    → 11:44 AM, Apr 5
  • Submit your talk idea for this year’s RF Village at #DEFCON. Need support? We’re there for you.

    docs.google.com/forms/d/1…

    → 9:12 AM, Apr 5
  • #FCC #TAC resumes - ORI to continue to support #opensource and #hamradio #regulatory work in the United States. Charter extended to 7 September 2023, with a two-year extension offered.

    Thank you to everyone supporting our work at ORI.

    → 8:43 AM, Apr 5
  • Our #FPGA class from @matlab for advanced digital communications gets a “Go Flight” from ORI board. Subsidies available for #opensource and #hamradio developers. 1-5 May 2023 0900 PDT, held virtually. 1 hour system check-in 1 May. Two full days 2-3 May. Deploy on hardware 4-5 May.

    → 8:35 AM, Apr 5
  • NEWSDR 2023 on Friday June 2 at WPI #sdr #radio

    The New England Workshop on Software Defined Radio (NEWSDR) is being hosted in-person at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) on Friday June 2, in Worcester, Massachusetts, with two exciting tutorials (“USRP FPGA Programming with RFNoC” and “AI for Wireless Communications”) scheduled the evening before on Thursday June 1. Many thanks to the support of our generous event sponsors Mathworks and NI/Ettus Research.

    We are excited and truly honored to have presenting at NEWSDR 2023 our keynote speaker Dr Thomas Rondeau (Principal Director for FutureG & 5G, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering) and our invited speakers Professor Muriel Medard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) and Professor Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University (NEU), Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT)).

    To learn more about this event, as well as to register for free to attend NEWSDR 2023, and to present a poster during the networking sessions, please visit our website at the link below.

    newsdr.org/workshops…

    → 7:24 PM, Apr 4
  • Paul Williamson reports, “See our new video, an official Unboxing of the EVAL-ADRV9002 dual-channel Narrow/Wide-band RF Transceiver (3 GHz to 6 GHz) that we are adding to ORI Remote Lab West.”

    Free to use for #opensource work.

    youtu.be/fAO2b7YvO…

    → 5:17 AM, Apr 4
  • Overview of Neuromorphic Computing: Challenges and Opportunities by Sakib Hasan, PhD

    We support #IEEE in many ways. Here’s a recording of a recent talk. ORI volunteers helped with logistics and audio/visual expertise.

    youtu.be/fSOpdgQXI…

    21 March 2023 Overview of Neuromorphic Computing Challenges and Opportunities by Sakib Hasan PhD

    Dr. Hasan explains, “#Neuromorphic #Computing promises orders of magnitude improvement in energy efficiency compared to the traditional von Neumann computing paradigm. The goal is to develop an adaptive, fault-tolerant, low-footprint, fast, low-energy intelligent system by learning and emulating brain functionality which can be realized through innovation in different abstraction layers including material, device, circuit, architecture, and algorithm. As the energy consumption in complex machine learning tasks keeps increasing exponentially due to larger data sets and resource-constrained edge devices becoming increasingly ubiquitous, neuromorphic computing approaches can be a viable alternative to a deep convolutional neural network that is dominating the field today. In this talk, I introduce neuromorphic computing, outline a few representative examples from different layers of the design stack (devices, circuits, and algorithms) and conclude with a few important challenges and opportunities in this field.”

    → 8:50 PM, Apr 3
  • FPGA meetup tomorrow - final review of class proposal, Remote Labs updates

    Please join us tomorrow at 1000 US Pacific for the final review of the MATLAB/HDL Coder class proposal from MathWorks (on Zoom).

    Meeting link will be on the mailing list and on Slack.

    For reference, here’s the outline below for “HDL Coder for Software Defined Radio”

    COURSE OUTLINE Day 1 - Generating HDL Code from Simulink & DSP for FPGAs Preparing Simulink Models for HDL Code Generation (1.0 hrs) Prepare a Simulink model for HDL code generation. Generate HDL code and testbench for simple models requiring no optimization. • Preparing Simulink models for HDL code generation • Generating HDL code • Generating a test bench • Verifying generated HDL code with an HDL simulator Fixed-Point Precision Control (2.0 hrs) Establish correspondence between generated HDL code and specific Simulink blocks in the model. Use Fixed-Point Tool to finalize fixed point architecture of the model. • Fixed-point scaling and inheritance • Fixed-Point Designer workflow • Fixed-Point Tool • Fundamental adders and multiplier arrays • Division and square root arrays • Wordlength issues and Fixed-point arithmetic • Saturate and wraparound. • Overflow and underflow Optimizing Generated HDL Code (4 hrs) Use pipelines to meet design timing requirements. Use specific hardware implementations and share resources for area optimization. • Generating HDL code with the HDL Workflow Advisor • Meeting timing requirements via pipelining • Choosing specific hardware implementations for compatible Simulink blocks • Sharing FPGA/ASIC resources in subsystems • Verifying that the optimized HDL code is bit-true cycle-accurate • Mapping Simulink blocks to dedicated hardware resources on FPGA

    Day 2 - DSP for FPGAs Signal Flow Graph (SFG) Techniques (SFG) Techniques and high-speed FIR design (2.0 hrs) Review the representation of DSP algorithms using signal flow graph. Use the Cut Set method to improve timing performance. Implement parallel and serial FIR filters. • DSP/Digital Filter Signal Flow Graphs • Latency, delays and “anti-delays”! • Re-timing: Cut-set and delay scaling • The transpose FIR • Pipelining and multichannel architectures • SFG topologies for FPGAs • FIR filter structures for FPGAs Multirate Signal Processing for FPGAs (4.0 hrs) Develop polyphase structure for efficient implementation of multirate filters. Use CIC filter for interpolation and decimation. • Upsampling and interpolation filters • Downsampling and decimation filters • Efficient arithmetic for FIR implementation • Integrators and differentiators • Half-band, moving average and comb filters • Cascade Integrator Comb (CIC) Filters (Hogenauer) • Efficient arithmetic for IIR Filtering

    CORDIC Techniques AND channelizers (2.0 hrs) Introduce CORDIC algorithm for calculation of various trigonometric functions. • CORDIC rotation mode and vector mode • Compute cosine and sine function • Compute vector magnitude and angle • Architecture for FPGA implementation • Channelizer

    Day 3 - Programming Xilinx Zynq SoCs with MATLAB and Simulink & Software-Defined Radio with Zynq using Simulink IP Core Generation and Deployment (2.0 hrs) Use HDL Workflow Advisor to configure a Simulink model, generate and build both HDL and C code, and deploy to Zynq platform. • Configuring a subsystem for programmable logic • Configuring the target interface and peripherals • Generating the IP core and integrating with SDK • Building and deploying the FPGA bitstream • Generating and deploying a software interface model • Tuning parameters with External Mode Model Communications System using Simulink (1.5 hrs) Model and simulate RF signal chain and communications algorithms. • Overview of software-defined radio concepts and workflows • Model and understand AD9361 RF Agile Transceiver using Simulink • Simulate a communications system that includes a transmitter, AD9361 Transceiver, channel and Receiver (RF test environment) Implement Radio I/O with ADI RF SOM and Simulink (1.5 hrs) Verify the operation of baseband transceiver algorithm using real data streamed from the AD9361 into MATLAB and Simulink. • Overview of System object and hardware platform • Set up ADI RF SOM as RF front-end for over-the-air signal capture or transmission • Perform baseband processing in MATLAB and Simulink on captured receive signal • Configure AD9361 registers and filters via System object • Verify algorithm performance for real data versus simulated data Prototype Deployment with Real-Time Data via HW/SW Co-Design (2.0 hrs) Generate HDL and C code targeting the programmable logic (PL) and processing system (PS) on the Zynq SoC to implement TX/RX. • Overview of Zynq HW/SW co-design workflow • Implement Transmitter and Receiver on PL/PS using HW/SW co-design workflow • Configure software interface model • Download generated code to the ARM processor and tune system parameters in real-time operation via Simulink • Deploy a stand-alone system

    -Michelle Thompson

    → 7:40 PM, Apr 3
  • Video recording of the FPGA meetup from 28 March 2023. Proposal from @MATLAB for an advanced digital communications #FPGA course and then Remote Labs reports. youtu.be/XbeO_kTnb…

    → 6:58 PM, Mar 30
  • New #AI Channel on Open Research Institute Slack account

    Greetings all!

    You’ll hear about our new URL for Slack in the upcoming Inner Circle #newsletter, but here’s some advance news. We are now:

    openresearchinstitute.slack.com

    Thank you to everyone that helped make this change smooth and painless!

    And, we have a brand new channel about Artificial Intelligence. Check in to #ai to talk about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 

    → 12:20 PM, Mar 30
  • Today’s #FPGA standup meeting video recording can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch

    → 7:19 PM, Mar 21
  • FPGA standup and then office hours in about a half hour.

    Link posted to the list and Slack.

    Presentations range from #amaranth to #adrv9002 and #training.

    See you there!

    → 9:33 AM, Mar 21
  • Neuromorphic Computing IEEE Virtual Presentation Today

    We support #IEEE.

    Here’s the abstract for today’s virtual presentation.

    “IEEE CS SD 2023 Invited Seminar Series: Lecture 2

    #Neuromorphic #Computing promises orders of magnitude improvement in energy efficiency compared to the traditional von Neumann computing paradigm. The goal is to develop an #adaptive, fault-tolerant, low-footprint, fast, low-energy intelligent system by learning and emulating #brain functionality which can be realized through innovation in different abstraction layers including material, device, circuit, architecture, and algorithm. As the energy consumption in complex machine learning tasks keeps increasing exponentially due to larger data sets and resource-constrained edge devices becoming increasingly ubiquitous, neuromorphic computing approaches can be a viable alternative to a deep #convolutional #neural #network that is dominating the field today. In this talk, I introduce neuromorphic computing, outline a few representative examples from different layers of the design stack (devices, circuits, and algorithms) and conclude with a few important challenges and opportunities in this field.”

    Learn more and sign up to attend this presentation at events.vtools.ieee.org/m/350928

    → 8:43 AM, Mar 21
  • Neptune has Only Been Visited up Close Once

    “The only spacecraft that has ever visited Neptune was NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, which visited the planet during its Grand Tour of the Solar System. Voyager 2 made its Neptune flyby on August 25, 1989, passing within 3,000 km of the planet’s north pole. This was the closest approach to any object that Voyager 2 made since it was launched from Earth.” -Matt Williams

    #NeptuneProjectCountdown

    → 8:37 AM, Mar 21
  • Video recording of our weekly #fpga meetup at ORI is here: youtu.be/Y6KILNssz…

    → 12:38 PM, Mar 18
  • Fridays are our #Documentation Days. We try to improve our work by spending focused time on documentation and explanation. This improves accessibility and sustainability.

    Thank you to all our volunteers and supporters!

    → 8:53 AM, Mar 16
  • Neptune’s Surface Gravity is Almost Earth-like

    Neptune is a ball of gas and ice, probably with a rocky core. You cannot stand on the surface of Neptune without falling through the clouds. However, if you could stand on the surface of Neptune, you would be able to. The force of gravity pulling you down is almost exactly the same as the force of gravity you feel walking here on Earth.

    #NeptuneProjectCountdown

    What it might look like at the surface of Neptune. Blue smeared clouds with faint structure.
    → 8:27 AM, Mar 14
  • A Remote Lab expansion is in the works, with an additional #radio card from #AnalogDevices @ADI_News

    #OpenSource #satellite #hamradio #drone

    → 8:01 AM, Mar 14
  • Updating the Opulent Voice Interleaver

    The interleaver for Opulent Voice needs to be updated because the frame size has increased. We are incorporating RTP, UDP, and IP layers into the existing OPUS and 4-ary MFSK layers and now have what we think may be the final frame size.

    Since convolutional encoding is used for Opulent Voice payload, an interleaver is necessary to get the best bit error rate performance out of the convolutional encoder. The interleaver is used over both the physical layer header (Golay encoded) and the data payload (a 1/2 rate Convolutional code). Opulent Voice is an open protocol that we use for our HEO/GEO uplink. It can also be used terrestrially on the #hamradio bands at 70cm and above. Find out more at www.openresearch.institute/2022/07/3…

    The distance that an interleaver spreads out bits in a frame is the most familiar performance measurement. It’s commonly called “spread” or “minimum interleaved distance”. However, we learned about another metric that is important in Turbo codes. Several papers refer to the measure of randomness of the mixture of bit position reassignments as “dispersion” (for example, see cgi.tu-harburg.de/~c00e8lit…). That particular paper cited another paper (reference [6]) as defining dispersion.

    Following that citation led to a paper but this paper didn’t mention dispersion or explain the equation. Going back to the original paper, we started working with the definition for dispersion that we had. This used the cardinality of the set of indices of original bit positions vs. permuted bit positions. This seemed straightforward enough. But, after trying this in MATLAB, we always got the minimum dispersion value, so there must be something wrong with our interpretation.

    Volunteers then spent time trying to figure out if dispersion is important enough metric for a single convolutional code, like we have in #OpulentVoice. In other words, should we simply not simply choose the polynomials that result in the largest minimum interleaved distance? Selecting the right interleaver based on a balance between how far apart it spreads the bits vs. how randomly the bits are distributed is a useful selection methodology for Turbo codes, but may not be strictly necessary for a single convolutional code used with 40 mS frames.

    Everyone is welcome to join in the discussion and work to create quality #OpenSource work for #digital communications at ORI. Please see openresearch.institute/getting-s… to be welcomed to our community.

    → 9:01 AM, Mar 13
  • “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

    When people in your community, whether it’s #OpenSource or #hamradio, speak up about unethical behavior from wealthy or powerful people, listen to them.

    Look at the evidence.

    And then, take action.

    The Orwell statue at the BBC in on the right. It has been put through a filter that splits the colours. The wall the statue is in front of has an engraving of the quote If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"
    → 7:40 AM, Mar 12
  • Thank you to www.qrz.com

    We appear alongside #QSOtoday Ham Expo.

    If you haven’t attended a #HamExpo, then please check it out at www.qsotodayhamexpo.com

    When you go to QRZ.com news page, there is a grid of icons representing the news stories of interest for that day. Open Research Institute appears here alongside other major events in #hamradio
    → 9:34 AM, Mar 8
  • Thank you for the strong support for the #Ribbit and #RFBitBanger. We’re looking forward to sharing these projects and much more with you at #DEFCON in August 2023.

    Stay informed through our newsletter, the Inner Circle.

    www.openresearch.institute/newslette…

    → 8:47 AM, Mar 8
  • See the latest video about the #Ribbit project here: www.youtube.com/shorts/gL…

    Thank you to everyone on the team working hard to bring this new communications mode to life.

    → 8:59 PM, Mar 7
  • We’re planning an open source digital communications class for FPGA that heavily leverages MATLAB, Simulink, and HDL Coder. Please get in touch if you have opinions about which elements of @MathWorks course catalog you’d like to learn more about.

    → 10:09 AM, Mar 7
  • There are no Plans to Visit Neptune Again.

    We have to settle for Voyager 2‘s photographs of the planet Neptune for now. In 2021, the Trident proposal was passed over for Davinci and Veritas. There may be a Chinese mission launching in 2024.

    #NeptuneProjectCountdown

    → 8:59 AM, Mar 7
    1. There are no Plans to Visit Neptune Again: We have to settle for Voyager 2‘s photographs of the planet Neptune for now. in 2021, the Trident proposal was passed over for Davinci and Veritas. There may be a Chinese mission launching in 2024.

    #NeptuneProject

    → 8:56 AM, Mar 7
  • Currently reading: Software-Defined Radio for Engineers by Travis Collins 📚

    → 5:03 PM, Mar 6
  • Today is our birthday! Read about what we do in our March 2023 Inner Circle Newsletter.

    www.openresearch.institute/2023/03/0…

    Whiteboard block diagram of our Opulent Voice implementation for the next demonstration.
    → 9:52 AM, Mar 6
  • #Maia from @destevez@mastodon.social is working well in ORI Remote Labs West. Excellent instructions, useful code, all open source: github.com/maia-sdr/…

    A computer monitor with a spectrum display of a WiFi signal using Maia SDR Firmware for Pluto. Factotum can be seen looking at the screen through his glasses on the extreme righthand side of the screen. Instructions were clear and accurate. It can record signals using SigMF as well as display them.
    → 7:39 PM, Mar 4
  • Thank you to everyone that helps ORI succeed!

    We’ve overcome difficulties, grown, and had a lot of success over the past year.

    Our March newsletter will celebrate our anniversary and future.

    Subscribe at eepurl.com/h_hYzL

    Abstract landscape image with text "Just because we carry it well doesn't mean it isn't heavy"
    → 8:23 AM, Feb 26
  • “Advances in AI for Web Integrity, Equity, and Well-Being” presented by Srijan Kumar PhD

    youtu.be/CjmDMFCP0…

    → 8:55 AM, Feb 22
  • March 2023 Inner Circle Newsletter editing is underway. Inner Circle is a non-technical update on everything that is happening at ORI. March is our anniversary month and we will have several very special announcements.

    Sign up at this link eepurl.com/h_hYzL

    → 2:14 PM, Feb 18
  • In case you missed it: February 2023 Inner Circle Newsletter from ORI

    www.openresearch.institute/2023/02/1…

    Our logo, which is our initials in gray and white and black, on a rippled water background.
    → 11:03 AM, Feb 18
  • A Home for Curiosity and Adventure

    Next Inner Circle #newsletter goes out on Tuesday 14 February. Subscribe using the QR code below or the link here: eepurl.com/h_hYzL

    Want to be part of our open source #radio #art #science #opensource community?

    We “get you.” And, we have your back.

    → 10:45 AM, Feb 12
  • Another Inner Circle newsletter is coming soon. It is a non-technical update on everything that is happening at ORI.

    Sign up using the QR code in the image below or use this link eepurl.com/h_hYzL

    [eepurl.com/h_hYzL](http://eepurl.com/h_hYzL)
    → 8:43 AM, Feb 11
  • Today’s #opensource #digital #radio uplink work in the lab is documented in the image below. Our uplink design is called Opulent Voice and is a big step forward for open source digital voice modes. Thank you to all our volunteers who are helping make work like this possible.

    A triptych of three images. The top one is the GNU radio flowgraph defining the Opulent Voice transmitter test for today. We are adding push to talk functionality. The bottom left is a photo of the lab setup, wtih an Optimized Tomfoolery RTL-SDR and a Stringfellow resistive splitter. The bottom right is the results on the spectrum analyzer.
    → 4:03 PM, Feb 7
  • Today’s FPGA Standup meeting video recording can be found at youtu.be/mAxCoc_hR…

    → 1:19 PM, Feb 7
  • Courtney Duncan (N5BF) speaks about the value of amateur radio in science and engineering.

    youtu.be/HW4O1UsoW…

    → 3:44 AM, Feb 7
  • While Research and Development generally focuses on new and innovative ways to do things, we also invest time in opening up the way things were done in the past. We have some very special space-related source code to share with you in the coming weeks and months.

    → 4:37 PM, Feb 6
  • It’s Missile Knows Where it is Monday!

    May you know where you are at all times this week, and also have greatly reduced errors.

    youtu.be/6iBeRfOAA…

    → 9:54 AM, Feb 6
  • Including the public in decision-making is key to defeating corruption.

    us.transparency.org/news/2022…

    → 3:49 AM, Feb 5
  • Thank you to all our teams!

    There was a tremendous amount of progress made this past week in both terrestrial and space projects.

    → 2:01 PM, Feb 4
  • Interested in HF? We have a pair of projects that are fresh and innovative designs for antenna design and QRP.

    www.openresearch.institute/getting-s…

    → 6:03 AM, Feb 3
  • Robery Chyla presents about N-Trace for RISC-V today at the first of what is expected to be a regular program of technical talks.

    → 8:14 AM, Feb 2
  • Tomorrow is the next RISC-V Community Sessions “N-Trace for RISC-V explained”

    See you there!

    #OpenSource #riscv

    → 1:33 PM, Feb 1
  • Great meeting with NASA today. It was welcoming and encouraging. We’ll be taking full advantage of all the advice given.

    Thank you to all our volunteers working hard to get our #OpenSource #digital #radio work into space.

    → 12:34 PM, Feb 1
  • Improving the Capabilities of Cognitive Radar & Electronic Warfare Systems

    “Improving the Capabilities of Cognitive Radar & Electronic Warfare Systems”

    presented by Tim Fountain, Global Market Segment Manager

    Thanks to sponsors Association of Old Crows, specifically the AOC Granite State Chapter.

    “Journal of Electromagnetic Dominance” is their house organ.

    There are a number of resources for this webinar. Slides and the white paper are on our Slack account at phase4ground.slack.com. Please contact a board member of ORI for access to the Slack.

    Tim Fountain is introduced.

    A cognitive RF system is designed to perceive the RF environment. System converts the RF spectrum and associated energy into a stream of RF IQ data. So far, so good. But we add AI/ML to make autonomous decisions about what we are seeing in the RF spectrum.

    A course of action is determined without human intervention.

    For electronic warfare (EW) we want to

    1. deny the use of the RF spectrum by an adversary. We also want to
    2. protect the platform we have against jamming and other things. We want to
    3. deliver supporting information to another system - we aren’t standalone in many situations. This third aspect is less relevant to ORI, except for our work in larger standards like OpenRAN.

    Emerging threats are enumerated.

    We think of htis as static library of known quantifiable and repeatable characteristics. We develop something like a PDW or pulse descriptor words. And we have countermeasures to these. It’s like a lookup table of asshattery.

    The slides have a static library RADAR/EW system graph, with search and tracking. That’s the place that we are starting from in terms of jamming, denying, harassing transmissions.

    However, there are problems with this approach. We have mode agile attacks. These can come from anywhere. Non-conforming, non-traditional, and totally not in our library! What to do?

    We can’t counter these threats (is this a true axiom?) and the platform is at risk.

    The static library is considered ineffective. What new concepts work? AI/ML? Why not, let’s try it.

    Classify and counter, on the fly. This is a game of cat and mouse since attackers, just like in infosec, are also using AI/ML.

    Flexible and continuously adaptable AI/Ml systems are considered to be required.

    An AI/ML analysis and threat counter system is now under dicussion in this talk.

    There is an upcoming session with Mathworks that focuses on “how to develop” these critical subsystems.

    But, how do we train them? That is where we are going next in this talk.

    We see a landscape of things and we look at them in time and frequency. Sometimes we can miss “typing” the emitters if we limit ourselves to just time and frequency.

    The most commonly used AI techniques (claimed here) are ANN and DNN, or artificial and deep neural networks.

    Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Algorithms are cited strongly here.

    Tim said his wife uses Fuzzy Logic to make decisions and then immediately attempted to frame it as a compliment. I am not sure how to react to this, as I happen to be a “wife”. It did not come across as a compliment, until it was redefined without any additional supporting comments (i.e. “just kidding”). I am glad I am not in “a room” for this talk, because I expect most men laughed at this joke.

    Moving on.

    Heuristics, Support vector machines, and Markov decision processes are mentioned.

    Significant computational resources are required at this tactical edge - this seems like a great place for FPGA, and FPGA is indeed mentioned. Maybe federated learning would be the right answer, but it’s not on this slide.

    Wideband cognitive systems use more electical power, compared to static library systems.

    Manuverability and flexibility comes at a cost, always.

    Mode-agile threats can also enter low-power RF modes, operating at or below the noise floor. This means we need a high dynamic range. Wider bandwidth and higher dynamic range ar diverging requirements.

    Jamming - is a big deal.

    Challenges? There are alot.

    The requirements for training are the most critical part. The data sets must be rich and real, and these data sets, as we know, do not in general exist.

    Iterative HWIL approaches can make up part of the gap.

    Terabytes of data and you are looking for that one CW signal. Joint time-frequency analysis can be the way forward here. Looking at the whole recording (this assumes you can record) then you have time vs. amplitude and persistence display. ZoomOut and ZoomIn are introduced. These are products. 100 nS barker code is an example signal “found” through these methods.

    “How to use MATLAB and simulink to create these signals to analyze and close the loop for new training data sets for the things of interest”. <=== other talks.

    Hardware in the Loop Settings revisited: classic requirements Vee shown on the graphs.

    “What does FEDS give you?” Access to the IQ stream. AXI4 stream for IQ data. Zynq ultrascale. Like, what we have at ORI.

    Customer implements the DSP, but we have the sandbox where we can drop custom code.

    We really should duplicate this, since it would help us in our open source work.

    “If you can visualize it, you should be able to drop it into the container”

    FEDS is the thing that does this, over at R&D.

    Open source tools specifically mentioned. Maybe there is a path forward here that we can leverage.

    Support package for the FPGA is mentioned. They are using Vivado AI, where we are not (yet).

    HIL/SIL system for algorithm development and testing. See slide 32.

    It’s complex, time consuming, and training and the data sets are the crucial part. This is where the cheese is binding, as they say. See slide 33.

    This was a wonderful talk about something a lot of folks at ORI know a lot about and want to do for open source work… right up until the joke/comment about the presenter’s wife and fuzzy logic.

    Speaking for myself, as the person summarizing this talk for my team, who happens to be “a wife”, I’d really like to not feel like a joke in technical seminars? Equating women with old and largely discredited fad techniques like Fuzzy Logic derailed my attention and enthusiasm for a webinar. This was a talk I was very much looking forward to attending. It made it much harder to pay attention to, understand, and then synthesize for teaching others.

    Aside from that, we’ll try and take full advantage of the content presented here and follow up with R&D and Mathworks and Xilinx.

    → 10:41 AM, Jan 31
  • Professional and Personal Development Through Open Source Work

    Notes on Multirate processing from P.P. Vaidyanathan’s book www.amazon.com/Multirate…

    If you enjoy learning about concepts like multirate processing and would like to participate in open source implementations, then ORI has space for you. implementations, then welcome aboard. You will feel right at home at ORI.

    → 8:44 AM, Jan 31
  • Experiments with a “meeting focus day of the week” have been successful so far in 2023, with an increase in uninterrupted work.

    Our meeting focus day is Tuesdays for Phase 4, and other projects are trying it out within their teams.

    What strategies have worked for you?

    → 11:36 AM, Jan 30
  • Currently reading: Multirate Systems And Filter Banks by P. P. Vaidyanathan 📚

    → 11:26 AM, Jan 30
  • We’ve updated and streamlined our Getting Started page.

    www.openresearch.institute/getting-s…

    → 1:18 PM, Jan 27
  • #FPGA meetups and Office Hours are scheduled for Tuesday 31 January 2023. 1000 US Pacific 1400 US Pacific Zoom links sent out to the mailing list and Slack beforehand. www.openresearch.institute/getting-s…

    → 11:48 AM, Jan 27
  • K4OGO speaks out about #hamradio culture.

    www.youtube.com/watch

    → 11:23 AM, Jan 26
  • We have people working all over the world today to advance the cause of open source hardware and software.

    Thank you to all our volunteers for your time and expertise.

    → 1:05 PM, Jan 25
  • FPGA meetups and office hours start back up today.

    Thank you to those that support our work.

    → 10:16 AM, Jan 24
  • Michelle Thomposon ORI CEO @abraxas3d: San Francisco for #IEEE OpCom conference 3 Feb - 5 Feb San Diego for #IEEE Information Theory and Applications conference 12 Feb – 16 Feb She is available for meetups at ori@openresearch.institute

    → 11:18 AM, Jan 22
  • Interested in #polyphase? Well, we are making some moves here.

    If you’re interested in working on #OpenSource #FPGA designs for receivers that use #multirate processing, then please see openresearch.institute/getting-s… and let’s get some things done.

    → 10:08 AM, Jan 21
  • Thank You For Supporting Rattlegram!

    Thank you so much for those that have donated to #rattlegram continuing development. It means the world to all of us at Open Research Institute to get so much honest and authentic support from the community.

    While the financial support is deeply appreciated, we value your time, expertise, engagement, and attention much more.

    Join the Ribbit Project mailing lists at www.openresearch.institute/mailing-l…

    #hamradio #opensource #innovation

    → 9:28 AM, Jan 20
  • Worth reading.

    slate.com/human-int…

    Peer review is what we do. What constitutes peers is often damaged by powermongers & gatekeepers.

    We’d love to hear your opinion.

    → 9:46 AM, Jan 19
  • Welcome to our new volunteers in the following areas:

    Protocol development SBIR/STTR grant work

    “We couldn’t do what we do without you”

    → 8:56 AM, Jan 16
  • Fridays are “documentation days” at ORI.

    Thank you to everyone that helps contribute to our weekly reports!

    We’ll continue this practice in 2023.

    → 8:48 AM, Jan 13
  • ORI Book club finished reading: Blind Man’s Bluff by Sherry Sontag 📚

    → 5:38 PM, Jan 10
  • We’ve updated our mailing list page to include the #Ribbit and #Rattlegram list.

    Please visit www.openresearch.institute/mailing-l… and sign up.

    A powerful frog cartoon holding a handie-talkie radio is hovering over a QR code that takes you to the Ribbit Radio website at https://www.ribbitradio.org/
    → 1:30 PM, Jan 10
  • SBIR solicitations in the US are open. We are looking forward to the process.

    Do you have an #opensource project that could use an #SBIR partner?

    ORI can help.

    Get in touch: hello at openresearch dot institute.

    → 1:20 PM, Jan 10
  • Report on “shelf life” of #3dprint #PLA #antenna parts metallized with conductive spray paint coming soon.

    #prototyping

    → 10:14 AM, Jan 8
  • A highlight of 2022 was our #opensource HEO/GEO #hamradio #satellite design proposal published by #JAMSAT.

    The first page of the full Haifuraiya open source HEO/GEO satellite proposal for JAMSAT. Kindly translated by Mikio Mouri. Many JAMSAT members contribute to and support ORI.
    → 10:48 AM, Jan 7
  • Thank you for a wonderful start to 2023! Team meetups resume next week.

    Stone carved with the word Gratitude is placed on top of a field of other similar stones.
    → 9:56 AM, Jan 6
  • Did you know we have a Trello board to track tasks for various projects?

    We have an opening for a volunteer for Cell Matching (NiCd) data analysis and destructive testing.

    Details here: trello.com/c/HDjJEcM…

    → 1:24 PM, Jan 5
  • HamCation 2023: Call for Open Research Institute Volunteers (booth/housing provided)

    Please find details at

    www.openresearch.institute/2023/01/0…

    Spread the word - we’re here to help #opensource projects in #digital #communcations and #hamradio

    photo from HamCation 2022 with Paul KB5MU staffing the Open Research Institute Booth. It was the most colorful and best lit booth in the show! On the table are tie-dyed shirts for sale, lots of information about our work, and behind the table were a lot of extra chairs for seating and conversation.
    → 12:52 PM, Jan 5
  • We have a non-technical newsletter for people that want to keep in touch and up to date with what we’re doing, and the next issue will be out soon. Don’t miss it - sign up using the QR code below or click the link eepurl.com/h_hYzL

    QR code that links to [eepurl.com/h_hYzL](http://eepurl.com/h_hYzL)
    → 12:05 PM, Jan 4
  • The #pluto #SDR has been a workhorse in our Remote Labs.

    From above, a Pluto SDR and an Ayecka SR-1 pro can be seen connected to CHONC, which is the computer providing virtual machine support for hardware in Remote Lab West.
    → 9:57 PM, Jan 3
  • Maintenance is happening in the Remote Labs - MATLAB from 2021a to 2022b. Getting things ready for when we open back up.

    → 8:12 PM, Jan 2
  • Do you have a favorite Microblog for #MicroMonday? We do!

    @MustBeArt is our postmaster and factotum. Thank you Paul for helping ORI in so many ways.

    → 10:02 AM, Jan 2
  • A “bit” of #retrocomputing.

    The retrocomputing shield from HackerBoxes. Shown is the Z80 and the 6502 boards soldered up and ready to get to work doing some 8-bit magic.
    → 9:39 AM, Jan 2
  • ATA Hackfest 2019 - rainbow over radio telescopes.

    → 8:02 PM, Jan 1
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