wraggster
November 9th, 2013, 22:48
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Sometimes the best builds aren’t anything new, but rather combining two well-developed hacks. [Marc] was familiar with RTL-SDR, the $30 USB TV tuner come software defined radio, but was surprised no one had yet combined this cheap radio dongle with the ability to transmit radio from a Raspberry Pi. [Marc] combined these two builds (http://www.kprod.eu/blog/?p=26) and came up with the cheapest portable radio modem for the Raspberry Pi.
Turning the Raspi into a transmitter isn’t really that hard (http://hackaday.com/2012/12/10/transmit-fm-using-raspberry-pi-and-no-additional-hardware/); it only requires a 20cm wire inserted into a GPIO pin, then toggling this pin at about 100 MHz. This resulting signal can be picked up fifty meters away, and through walls, even.
[Marc] combined this radio transmitter with minimodem (http://www.whence.com/minimodem/), a program that generates audio modem tones at the required baud rate. Data is encoded in this audio stream, sent over the air, and decoded again with an RTL-SDR dongle.
It’s nothing new, per se, but if you’re looking for a short-range, low-bandwidth wireless connection between a computer and a Raspberry Pi, this is most certainly the easiest and cheapest method.
http://hackaday.com/2013/11/09/transmitting-data-with-a-pi-and-rtl-sdr/
Sometimes the best builds aren’t anything new, but rather combining two well-developed hacks. [Marc] was familiar with RTL-SDR, the $30 USB TV tuner come software defined radio, but was surprised no one had yet combined this cheap radio dongle with the ability to transmit radio from a Raspberry Pi. [Marc] combined these two builds (http://www.kprod.eu/blog/?p=26) and came up with the cheapest portable radio modem for the Raspberry Pi.
Turning the Raspi into a transmitter isn’t really that hard (http://hackaday.com/2012/12/10/transmit-fm-using-raspberry-pi-and-no-additional-hardware/); it only requires a 20cm wire inserted into a GPIO pin, then toggling this pin at about 100 MHz. This resulting signal can be picked up fifty meters away, and through walls, even.
[Marc] combined this radio transmitter with minimodem (http://www.whence.com/minimodem/), a program that generates audio modem tones at the required baud rate. Data is encoded in this audio stream, sent over the air, and decoded again with an RTL-SDR dongle.
It’s nothing new, per se, but if you’re looking for a short-range, low-bandwidth wireless connection between a computer and a Raspberry Pi, this is most certainly the easiest and cheapest method.
http://hackaday.com/2013/11/09/transmitting-data-with-a-pi-and-rtl-sdr/