Author Archives: Takis

a new era

the collective of interconnected computers has switched to the most centralised model ever. It’s like when people left the countryside and gathered to big cities, computers are staying together in big houses they name data-centers and create new communities called … Continue reading

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New domain

Hello dear friends. The blog has moved again to our new domain that will now host all personal information and activities. The new domain is takis.org !

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New blog and site URL

Time to make some changes in my life. That’s why I’m also changing the domain that this blog is hosted. We are moving from http://takis.name to http://takiss.tk Don’t ask about the double S 😛 All requests to the old site … Continue reading

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ADS-B SDR and Dump1090 performance

Quite some time ago I’ve been testing ADS-B Mode S reception with a RTL-SDR dongle and various embedded devices using SoC. The results were very good, and therefore I dediced to make an outdoor enclosure to be as closer to … Continue reading

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Gnuradio gr-wxgui on Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10

I’ve spent almost one week of my free time trying to make the latest gnuradio work under Ubuntu 12.04.2LTS I’m so happy that I finally managed to compile gnuradio with gr-wxgui that I’d like to share with you the way. … Continue reading

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My first FPGA test

This is my first FPGA test ever! I bought this incredibly cheap Xilinx FPGA board from ebay: Xilinx FPGA and in a few days I’ve managed to display my own message into an 2×16 LCD!

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Head World Cup Rebels I.sl 2013

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Asterisk GSM 3G voice gateway (FCT) using Raspberry pi and huwaei modem for under $100!

A success story today! After playing for about one month with chan_dongle and Huawei dongles I’ve managed to compile and run it to raspberry! It makes a brilliant lightweight portable open source PBX with a GSM module consuming under 5W!!! … Continue reading

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Google’s best in Greece as of July 2012!

Α: αντ1 αθηνοραμα ανεκδοτα αμκα ανταρσυα αλφα ασεπ αργυρω ανεξαρτητοι ελληνες αστρολογια Σα πολύ τηλεόραση δε βλέπουμε; και είμαστε ακόμη επηρεασμένοι από τις εκλογές νομίζω.. β: βασεις 2011 βικιπαιδεια βασεις 2012 βημα βιοιατρικη βίκυ σταμάτη βιογραφικο βετ365 βεροπουλος βουλη ΟΚ, … Continue reading

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GNUradio on Raspberry Pi

After about 2 days of messing with Debian on the Raspbery Pi I got an out of memory error during the compilation of UHD. Seems like I have to cross compile. AGAIN… [ 58%] Building CXX object lib/CMakeFiles/uhd.dir/usrp/usrp1/soft_time_ctrl.cpp.o [ 59%] … Continue reading

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