Having looked into the project last two days with Musfir and Sajith Sir, it seems this is a quite interesting project where students can make contribution. We have already seen some areas to be understood and to be explored. The hack camp suggested by Musfir would be a great start in that direction. Regards, On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Musfir Mohammed <mohammed.musfir@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all > > It is long since we had any noise from MES FSUG. Being a student of ECE I > happened to use a couple of Simulation tools and Softwares of which are > Simulink, Labview etc. I happened to come across a very useful and wonderful > tool called GNU RADIO which comes under the Software Defined radio project, > ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio ;) attending a workshop > at Amrita, Coimbatore. Rakesh sir whom I have copied is one person who has > much idea on this. > > http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki > > The above tool is far different from the current simulation tools as it > calls for a replacement of many of the bulky and expensive hardware in the > form of a software and a PC > The tool allows us to add custom blocks into the existing system thus > enhancing its scope and utiility > An example of a project is using GNURADIO is the open BTS > project http://openbts.sourceforge.net/ > > It would be of great impact to the students here if we could try to get into > the contribution of new blocks by using python code so that we can implement > various useful tools like the whose source code is available to us. The > signal processing blocks of the existing system are written in C++ and work > on Python. > > Some of the members here have tried out to solve this problem here. I think > it would be virtuous for us as well as the future batches to introduce them > to this venture. As part of this I would like to propose an idea of a > BLOCKSET Creation camp whereby we could try out building some prototype in > Python so that we could mobilize the venture. > > Every piece of contribution is valuable in this venture as it is a promising > solution to the grave scenario that exists today. Lack of proper tools for > educational and industrial purposes at economically viable condition. > > This project calls for people of expertise in Electronics and Communication > engineering and Computer Science. Kindly look into this matter and put forth > your suggestion. > > > -- > Thanking You > Musfir Mohammed > Department of ECE > 8th Semester > MES College of Engineering > > Member | IEEE : 90735154 > > > -- Raghesh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "MES-FSUG" group. To post to this group, send email to mes-fsug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mes-fsug-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mes-fsug?hl=en Our IRC channel #mes-fsug at irc.freenode.net. Webpage for GNULabs @ MESCE is at http://gnulabs.org/mesce/ Wiki: http://www.fosscommunity.in/wiki/Malappuram