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LuaRadio: a lightweight software-defined radio framework built on LuaJIT

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Re: LuaRadio: a lightweight software-defined radio framework built on LuaJIT

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God where won't this run and super fast? When discussing benchmarks, main dev Mike Pall is willing if people pay him to port to PPC for Xbox360 and PS3 and what not. Haha. Who knows what we can do with this guy's creative juices! http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-03/msg00305.html

Mike Pall has been looking for a new LuaJIT maintainer [0] for almost a year. 0. http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Looking-for-new-LuaJIT-...

Finding someone who is competent, willing, and available is remarkably difficult.

Re: LuaRadio: a lightweight software-defined radio framework built on LuaJIT

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A tiny reminder about the sophistication of luajit http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851#comment-57761

Do you know if there are any updated benchmark results since the quoted ones are a bit outdated now.

Not at all, but I have vague memories of luajit author publishing papers about his techniques ..

Re: LuaRadio: a lightweight software-defined radio framework built on LuaJIT

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This is very cool. I have been programming since the mid 1960s (took an extension course at a local college when I was in high school) and except for a few work projects, I have not really touched hardware projects. I might give SDR a try. Does anyone know how the quality of SDR compares to buying short wave, etc. Radios?

mcHF QRP transceiver. home-brewed amateur radio project. Firmware is released as open source and most project files are released as well.

Continues RX coverage 2-30 Mhz 5W output power CW, SSB, AM and FM – transmit and receive

http://www.m0nka.co.uk/?page_id=2

Re: LuaRadio: a lightweight software-defined radio framework built on LuaJIT

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Interesting. GNURadio is horrific to work with programmatically, and the UI is only passable. Unfortunately, the tricky part seems to be writing all the hardware-specific integration blocks and such, so cleaner programmatic interfaces in other languages aren't really useful. Hopefully we can get some competition in this area.

Why is it so hard to work with? There is a module creation tool, and you can use c++ or Python. The QT gui works well.

The C++ and python bindings suck. They are incredibly overcomplicated.
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