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1. ErroneousBosh · 1790880359 · focus · HN ↗

   > undocumented feature that lets the firmware bypass the fixed WiFi and Bluetooth functionality and instead capture raw IQ baseband samples

   So kind of like those TV USB sticks that you can adapt into proper SDRs?

   1. brcmthrowaway · 1790880594 · focus · HN ↗

      Yep, Matt Ettus converted that to hundreds of millions of dollars

      1. CamperBob2 · 1790887293 · focus · HN ↗

         Not with RTL-SDR specifically but by introducing one of the first open-architecture SDRs, the USRP.

         RTL-SDR is the cheapest imaginable commodity implementation of SDR technology, while USRP was... well, pricy enough to bring in some solid revenue and get his company bought. More power to him, it was (and is) an incredibly useful platform.

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