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RTLSDR-NEXT: A Ground-Up Rust Rewrite of the RTL-SDR Driver

2mon 7d ago by lemmy.radio/u/vk6flab in amateur_radio@lemmy.radio from www.rtl-sdr.com

Thank you to Matthew Delashaw, who has written in and shared a guest post with us. Matthew has rewritten the 2013 librtlsdr library from the ground up in Rust. His motivations for doing so and the results are explained in the post below: I actually started down this path as an 'interest'. There was a Ham radio Technical Interest Group I was planning on attending a meeting. I had already wanted to convert my Raspberry Pi into a fallback radio receiver for potential internet outages and listening to storm chasers on SKYWARN. Now I have the 'v4' dongle, and a