PLUG Video: Schyler St Leger: Software Defined Radios (SDR)

[Brian Cluff]

Presented to the Phoenix Linux Users Group (PLUG) on August 13th 2015 by 
Schyler St Leger.

Description: Software Defined Radio (SDR) provides the perfect low-cost 
method to explore the world of RF (Radio Frequency.) SDR is a flexible 
radio system that utilizes software instead of specialized hardware to 
decode radio signals. It can investigate a wide frequency range and 
decode many different RF protocols. This talk will provide a basic 
understanding of SDR. It will then discuss some of the available and 
affordable hardware and software tools for exploring SDR. If time allows 
a live SDR demo will be included.

Schuyler St. Leger is a young maker. His passion for technology started 
at a very early age. His interests include 3D printing, electronics, 
hardware and software programming, software defined radio (SDR), 
robotics, computers, and tech innovations. Schuyler regularly speaks and 
teaches on these subjects. He dabbles in many software and hardware 
technologies including 3D CAD tools (Autodesk Inventor and 123D, 
SketchUp, and SolidWorks), LabVIEW, MATLAB, Python, Processing, Scratch, 
Linux, Arduino, and LEGO Mindstorms. He enjoys designing and making 
things as well as taking apart nearly everything to understand the 
details of how they work. He shows his projects at various maker events 
worldwide. Schuyler is a member a FIRST Robotics Competition team, Team 
Caution Robotics, and also a member of HeatSync Labs, Phoenix’s hackerspace.
His motto is “Don’t be afraid to break something!”
Schuyler lives in Phoenix, Arizona and is currently in high school at 
Brightmont Academy.

https://youtu.be/Wjik-PjJA1w

Brian Cluff