nico.ninja A deep dive journey about electronics, computers, radio and so on

  • Flipper Zero APRS Transceiver

    A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a cool project in which YO3GND uses the Flipper Zero’s internal CC1101 radio as an APRS UHF transmitter. The C1101 radio can transmit and receive from 300 to ~1 GHz and is the core of the Flipper Zero’s Sub-GHz radio. I thought it...


  • Improving filtering in my SDR receiver

    A while ago, I built and made available a dual-band VHF/UHF OpenWebRX+ Internet SDR receiver, https://sdr.nico.ninja. Time passed, and things changed. I replaced both RTL-SDR.com v3 SDR receivers with my old, unused HackRF One. I also decided to cover just the VHF ham radio band, from 144 to 148 MHz...


  • RadioBerry on a Yaesu FT-80C

    A note for the readers: This project is fully documented (from a technical perspective) in reynico/radioberry-setup Shortly after finishing the Vertex VX1700 RadioBerry build, my dad showed up at the workshop with a Yaesu FT-80C he had stored away for years. The radio was fully working - nothing wrong with...


  • RadioBerry on a Vertex VX1700

    A note for the readers: This project is fully documented (from a technical perspective) in reynico/radioberry-setup Mid last year, my father introduced me to RadioBerry, an open-source FPGA-based Raspberry Pi Hat platform for HF SDR transceivers (0 to 30 MHz). The board uses an AD9866 modem chip and an Intel...


  • Leverage

    I first learned about the concept of a lever when I was a kid, working on a construction site. Despite being a hostile job (especially for a young person), having to carry construction debris with a wheelbarrow (a second-grade lever) or mix cement with a shovel (a third-grade lever) made...