Originally posted on GNU Radio Blog
The summer has come to an end -- along with the Summer of Code for GNU Radio. It was a great season in terms of student participation, and as the students are preparing their last commits, this seems a good time to summarize their efforts.
All students presented their work (either in person, or via poster) at this year’s GNU Radio Conference in Boulder, Colorado.
gr-inspector
With gr-inspector, GNU Radio now has its own out-of-tree module, which serves as a repository for signal analysis algorithms, but also as a collection of fantastic examples. This module was created and worked on by Sebastian Müller, who was funded by Google Summer of Code (GSoC), and Christopher Richardson, who participated as a Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) student funded by the European Space Agency. Sebastian also created a video demonstrating some of the features:
Both Sebastian and Chris have written up their efforts on their own blogs.
PyBOMBS GUI
Ravi Sharan was our other GSoC student, primarily working on a GUI for PyBOMBS, our installation helper tool. Ravi also worked on a bunch of other things, and has summarized his efforts as well.
The PyBOMBS GUI is written in Qt, and is a nice extension to our out-of-tree module ecosystem:
While some developers prefer the comfort of their command line environments, we hope that the PyBOMBS GUI will ease the entry for more new developers. The GUI ties in nicely with CGRAN, and with the correct setup, users can directly launch installation of out-of-tree modules from their browser.
Want to participate? Have ideas?
We will definitely apply for GSoC and SOCIS again next year! If you want to participate as a student, it helps a lot to get involved with the community early on. We also recommend you sign up for the mailing list, and get involved with GNU Radio by using it, reporting and fixing issues, or even publishing your own out-of-tree module. For more ideas, take a look at our summer of code wiki pages.
If you simply have ideas for future projects, those are welcome too! Suggest those on the mailing list, or simply edit the wiki page.
By Martin Braun, Organization Administrator for GNU Radio
