GREducators

GNU Radio Educators

The mission of the GNU Radio Educators Group is to promote and support the use of GNU Radio in education, in the widest possible sense of the term - from Middle School through High School and Undergraduate to Graduate education, and for the general public. This includes both learning about GNU Radio (and DSP) as an end in itself, as well as using GNU Radio to facilitate wider exploration of, and interest in, science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Potential GNU Radio Educational Projects

No Hardware Necessary

• Experiment with noise, chirps and Morse Code.
• Make some phone tones.

Some Hardware Required

• Check out Ten Things You Can Do with Software-Defined Radio.
• Detect FM radio with a simple antenna, RTL-DSR dongle, and a laptop.
• Build a neutral hydrogen (HI) horn antenna, make a map of the Milky Way, and discover Dark Matter.
• Build a Magnetic loop Antenna, use it to monitor the strength of ELF submarine communication signals, to detect Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances.

More Challenging

• Detect cube-sats
• Communicate with the ISS

More Specifically Educationally Oriented

• Check out the WVU Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy DSPIRA Labs.

Tutorials and Other Guides and Resources

• GNU Radio Tutorials
• Field Expedient SDR: Introduction to Software Defined Radio

Goals

• Package all of the above up into coherent, well-documented, OOT modules.
• Develop High School / Undergraduate class activities / lesson plans / labs / curricula which leverage the above.
• Establish High School DSP Clubs, like Lego Robotics clubs, but better.
• Establish some form of DSP competition, sponsored by a big DSP company, with things like GPU Cards as prizes

GNU Radio Educators at GRCON 2018

We are planning a breakout session at GNU Radio Conference 2018. Please share your ideas here.

GNU Radio Slack Discussions

Go to the GNU Radio Slack Invite Page to join the project on Slack. Then subscribe to the #edu channel. Here are some snippets from some recent Slack Discussions.

Useful GNU Radio Wiki Internal Links

• Selected Academic Papers
• Tutorials

Past GRCON / FOSDEM Conference Papers

GRCON:

• Motivating Undergraduate Communication Theory Using GNU Radio, Peter Mathys, GRCON 2016
• Building Stronger Collaborations in Astronomy, Glen Langston, GRCON 2015

FOSDEM:

• Intro to Open Source Radio Telescopes, Martin Braun, FOSDEM 2018

CGRAN Out Of Tree Modules

• None that I can see!

External Repositories, etc.

Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy (see also their main web site).