![]() That’s a shame because some of the 32-bit Arduinos might be able to do some interesting things with the right hardware. The IQ signals appear on the PC’s soundcard via a microphone or line-in jack, and don’t really route to the Arduino. We peeked at the schematic and the shield is more for letting the Arduino control the radio by changing the oscillator frequency rather than performing the SDR functions. There’s also a review video from Elektor about the board in the video, below. There’s also a series of Elektor articles about it. The board is available alone or as part of a kit that includes a book. The Si5351-based board uses that oscillator IC to shift RF signals down to audio frequencies and then makes it available to the PC to do more processing. If you want an introduction to SDR, Elektor now has an inexpensive RF shield for the Arduino. Software-defined radio or SDR means you get the RF signal to digital as soon as possible and do everything else in software. We always thought RF electronics would be immune to that, but the last decade or two has proven us wrong. Music synthesizers? RC controllers? Most likely, all microcontroller-based now. ![]() A project you might once have done with a 555 now probably has a cheap microcontroller in it. Microcontrollers tend to consume other kinds of electronics.
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