Last weekend I spent some time compiling the open source signal analysis software sigrok and its GUI pulseview on OS X. While it still isn’t running perfectly smooth and there’s a major bug preventing saving ones captures, I still found it quite interesting to play with. It supports a variety of devices for data acquisition …
For quite a while I felt like I missed out while my colleagues were competing in a fun little game called Blobby Volley 2. While the game itself is open source software, I wasn’t able to find any build for macOS. So I took the Linux version of the source code and ported it over …
TNT stands for Thumb2 Newlib Toolchain, a GCC/Newlib based toolchain project I started quite a while ago. Trying various other toolchains like CodeSourcery, summon-arm-toolchain and YAGARTO, I realized none of them really seemed to have the smallest ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers in mind; They were wasteful with RAM as well as flash memory. TNT has been …
A while ago I already managed to compile gqrx on OS X, but then Alexandru Csete decided to move on to a new audio backend called pulseaudio. Sadly there is no proper pulseaudio port for OS X. Thus I bring you my branch of gqrx 2.1 which runs quite well on OS X. This release …
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Qt has a great tool for building self contained application bundles on OSX, it’s called “macdeployqt”. Though I recently had a really weird bug while using it. When I ran the application normally everything was fine, but once I used the macdeployqt all the icons were missing. After a while investigating this I realized not …
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Due to my recent acquisition of an RTL-SDR compatible radio module (Some would call it DVB-T stick) I started playing with radio transmissions. Doing so I found POCSAG (pager) transmissions which I tried to decode using multimon. Sadly multimon was very broken, after I finally managed to compile it on OS X I realized it …