We’re excited to announce that we’ll be running an SDR workshop this year – presented by Jon Szymaniak – one of the developers from Nuand’s BladeRF, and Alex Page our local SDR guru and PHD student.
In last year’s SDR workshop, we gave lots of examples of projects you could do with RTLSDR, and pointed to the software you could use to do them. However, we didn’t have time to get into the details of that software, or explain any radio theory. This year, we are expanding the SDR workshop into a longer, more comprehensive session to cover those topics.
To start, we’ll talk about radio fundamentals: bandwidth, sampling, modulation, coding, etc. This will provide you with enough background to understand how things communicate using RF. Then, we will move on to an example application using gnuradio and other tools. You will follow along with your own laptop and SDR as we reverse-engineering something wireless and then – if your SDR can transmit – mess with it.
In a bit of a change for us, we’re going to be charging for this workshop. If you have your own SDR, your ticket to the class is 5 bucks, which gets you the training, as well as a CD-ROM filled with scripts, tools, and various other software to help you hack all the Hz. If you don’t have an SDR yet, we have a registration option that gets you all that, plus 1 RTLSDR. The cost for that ticket is $25.
If you’re interested, you should register soon – the class is limited to 30 seats. Registration is at http://rocsdr2015.eventzilla.net/