-Message: 1 Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 22:49:14 +0100 From: Benedikt Heinz zn000h@gmail.com To: osmocom-sdr@lists.osmocom.org Subject: new SDR project (bladeRF) on kickstarter Message-ID: CAFXU+zENpDgdfCTZu-U17GbMw-xg4BifyyPu4BwzTjK9p_mn5Q@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hi everyone,
just stumbled across this SDR on kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1085541682/bladerf-usb-30-software-defin... (found via hackaday) Maybe this is interesting for some of you.
Cheers,
hunz
I saw this too. It looks like a great piece of kit. Doesn't the dollars he's asking seem a bit steep though? Maybe not, and I'm hoping this comes off as a serious question. If it were opened up so that the dollars asked was lower then there'd be a lot of backers, which in turn drives build costs down further? If HackRF is half as good as I think it's going to be, then the $$ is definitely way to high. Just my (possibly uninformed) opinion.
--Jeff
I saw this too. It looks like a great piece of kit. Doesn't the dollars he's asking seem a bit steep though? Maybe not, and I'm hoping this comes off as a serious question. If it were opened up so that the dollars asked was lower then there'd be a lot of backers, which in turn drives build costs down further? If HackRF is half as good as I think it's going to be, then the $$ is definitely way to high. Just my (possibly uninformed) opinion.
Honestly this is actually very cheap for what it is. I think the rtl-sdr has spoiled people, expecting very cheap prices.
The hack rf target price was 300$ IIRC, so it's not even half the price and it doesn't nearly have the bandwidth, sample rate, on-board DSP capability or the ability to do full duplex. They're really not in the same category.
Cheers,
Sylvain
On 03.02.2013 14:20, Jeff Murri wrote:
-Message: 1 Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 22:49:14 +0100 From: Benedikt Heinz zn000h@gmail.com To: osmocom-sdr@lists.osmocom.org Subject: new SDR project (bladeRF) on kickstarter Message-ID: CAFXU+zENpDgdfCTZu-U17GbMw-xg4BifyyPu4BwzTjK9p_mn5Q@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hi everyone,
just stumbled across this SDR on kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1085541682/bladerf-usb-30-software-defin... (found via hackaday) Maybe this is interesting for some of you.
Cheers,
hunz
I saw this too. It looks like a great piece of kit. Doesn't the dollars he's asking seem a bit steep though? Maybe not, and I'm hoping this comes off as a serious question. If it were opened up so that the dollars asked was lower then there'd be a lot of backers, which in turn drives build costs down further? If HackRF is half as good as I think it's going to be, then the $$ is definitely way to high. Just my (possibly uninformed) opinion.
The bladeRF offers some more functionality compared to the HackRF. The HackRF is a quite "stupid" device just passing digital samples to and from the host. The bladeRF has also an FPGA, which allows you do to some processing on the device or even standalone operation. So you can not just compare the price and the output in MSPS.
Greetings Felix
PS: Sorry Jeff for spaming your inbox.
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