Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Getting started and documentation beyond dialtone.py ?

2010-11-29 Thread Martin Braun
I guess I can throw in a couple of pennies here... Here at KIT we have a couple of students hacking GR-related projects, and most of them get something running within reasonable time, provided they've had some kind of previous programming experience. Here's some of the advice I give them: On

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Getting started and documentation beyond dialtone.py ?

2010-11-29 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/29/2010 03:24 AM, Martin Braun wrote: FWIW, a lot of people think GNU Radio is hard. Personally, I find the hardest bit is understanding signal processing. And no tool in the world can make that simple. If you really know how the DSP works, getting GNU Radio to do thy biddings is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Getting started and documentation beyond dialtone.py ?

2010-11-27 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:02 PM, madengr rfe...@everestkc.net wrote: I finally purchased a USRP2.  I have many years of RF/Microwave hardware experience but totally new to Python programming, not to mention C++.  I know some C for microcontrollers, a little Verilog on Xilinx hardware, and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Getting started and documentation beyond dialtone.py ?

2010-11-27 Thread Steve Mcmahon
3) I saw there was an actual gnuradio book, but looks like it was never published.  I'd be willing to buy this in PDF or ebook format; is it avaiable? Is this the book you're talking about? Let me know if you can find a copy. I would definitely buy it if I could find it.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Getting started and documentation beyond dialtone.py ?

2010-11-27 Thread madengr
I'll take a look at the OOP chapter. I was playing with Objective C for a while so have a little of OOP figured out, but just the basics. The USRP2 is a nice piece of hardware. There is a danger, on the WBX, of the LNA blowing out the second stage amp if greater than -10 dBm is applied (and

[Discuss-gnuradio] Getting started and documentation beyond dialtone.py ?

2010-11-26 Thread madengr
I finally purchased a USRP2. I have many years of RF/Microwave hardware experience but totally new to Python programming, not to mention C++. I know some C for microcontrollers, a little Verilog on Xilinx hardware, and some DSP theory. I have read Lyon's book and have taken his class, along