Hackfest1405

= First EU Hackfest May 2014 =

The first official EU hackfest was held at KIT, in the rooms of the IIIT (many thanks to Nico Otterbach and his colleagues for providing the facilities!).

TSB modifications

 * Martin Braun: Research on moving the packet indicator tag to the end
 * multiply_matrix_ff

ZeroMQ

 * From our off-site hackfest in Aachen: Johannes et al

gr-specest

 * Moritz, Manu, Marcus and Felix

Multi-FSK modulator and demodulator for robust PLC

 * Damian, Jesus, Vlad, Nico and Oliver

GSoC Projects

 * gr-benchmark: Marcus
 * gr-radar: Stefan
 * Wrote unittests for FSK and CW simulators
 * Started with synchronized USRP sink/source
 * gr-trellis: Jan
 * Wrote a unittest for siso_f producing posti
 * Wrote scripts to use with gr-benchmark for viterbi_s, metrics_c and metrics_f, and siso_f (producing posti)

gr-rds
TX seems to work



gr-fosphor

 * Sylvain
 * Fix bugs in the frequency axis
 * Add zoom support
 * Preliminary support for CPU OpenCL implementation (with no cl/gl interop requirement)

gr-homematic

 * Andre
 * Receiver for TI CC11xx-based devices
 * PHY working quite good, filters settings could be optimized
 * Preamble+sync word detection working, de-whitener working, CRC not tested yet

Photos of the Event
First Day:



Moritz, Nico, Jesus and Attila



Damian, Vlad, Martin,Matt and Marcus





Videoconference with the guys in Aachen

Second Day:





Sylvain (tnt), Moritz, Dimitri, Jan and Stefan



Andre and Bastian

Third Day:





Concluding the hackfest with a nice barbecue