Other than solving puzzles and waxing the absence of robots, San Francisco’s Nerd Salon bent the brains of developers, engineers, consultants, network administrators and more at 111 Minna last night – with the introduction to Matt Ettus from GNU Radio’s open source software radio project.
build your own – check out the GNU Radio wiki
from GNU Radio:
GNU Radio is a collection of software that when combined with minimal hardware, allows the construction of radios where the actual waveforms transmitted and received are defined by software. What this means is that the digital modulation schemes used in today’s high performance wireless devices are now software problems.