KiwiSDR: BeagleBone Software-defined Radio (SDR) with GPS

A project in Salt Lake City, UT by Valent F(x)
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Turn your BeagleBone Black into a wide-band (0-30 MHz) SDR with a multi-user web interface. Includes a software-defined GPS receiver.
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Backers: 294
Average Pledge Per Backer: $241

Funded: $70,757 of $50,000
Dates: Mar 17th -> Apr 16th (30 days)
Project By: Valent F(x)
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Latest News

Week 4: Profit sharing with our Open Source contributors

April 15th - via: kickstarter.com
We are very pleased to announce a profit sharing agreement with our two Open Source contributors: András Retzler, HA7ILM, who is the author of OpenWebRX on which our user interface is based and Andrew Holme creator of the Homemade GPS Receiver the... (Read More)

Week 3: Manufacturing software support

April 8th - via: kickstarter.com
The first boards from the pilot production run have been shipped from Seeed. Next week's report should have a board bring-up report. Developed this week was support for initializing and writing a unique serial number to the board EEPROM. This will be... (Read More)

Week 2: 100% reached, Auto-discovery implemented

March 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks very much everyone for getting us to 100% of our goal. This ensures that we can build the minimum number of units required to support the reward prices. Lots going on. In addition to keeping up with your many emails, questions and comments a... (Read More)

KiwiSDR is live on Kickstarter! BeagleBone Software-defined Radio (SDR) with GPS

March 24th - via: seeedstudio.com
KiwiSDR is a software-defined radio (SDR), covering shortwave, the longwave & AM broadcast bands, various utility stations, and amateur radio transmissions, world-wide, in the spectrum from 10 kHz to 30 MHz. (Read More)

Week 1: 50% reached, manufacturing partner Seeed Studio

March 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks everyone for getting us to 50% of our goal. But we know there are no certainties with Kickstarter, so we are working very hard to get the word out. Many thanks to you who have contributed stories and tips to RTL-SDR.com, The SWLing Post,... (Read More)

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