The archive
A curated list of links to interesting articles, conferences, and websites that I have been compiling throughout the last 10 years.
I run periodical checks to find broken links but a rouge one might slip through. In that case, try the internet waybackmachine.
The links are groupd by category (see menu on the right) and also tagged where relevant:
- [Talk] Conferences, mostly on software and electronics.
- [Documentary], [VintageDocumentary] Documentaries, mostly technical, some historical and a few combining both aspects.
- [Shop] on-line shops on topics that I am interested.
- [Spanish] Resources in Spanish.
- [Podcast]
- [YouTube]
Radio
Software Defined Radio (SDR)
- 2018 Software-Defined Radio for Engineers - Free eBook by Analog Devices link
- I/Q Data for Dummies link
- [Talk] 2013 Balint Seeber - Defcon 21 - All Your RFz Are Belong to Me - Hacking the Wireless World with Software Defined Radio link
- [Talk] 2015 Balint Seeber - Hacking the Wireless World with Software Defined Radio - 2.0 link
Historic
- Naval radio operations during WWII - Jerry Proc link
- Cold war navy radio technology (mostly Canadian) - Jerry Proc link
- Wireless Operator Training WWII RAF (BBC) link
- World War II US Navy Radio - Rob Flory’s site link
- US Navy Radio Communications - 1950s & 1960s http://www.navy-radio.com/
- [Vintage Documentary] The Communications Officer Afloat (released 1974) link
- [Vintage Documentary] Staff Film Report 66-43B U.S. Army Communications Vietnam link
- [Vintage Documentary] Amateur radio in former Soviet Union link
- [Vintage Documentary] Amateur radio station in Lithuanian Parliament during soviet military rampage in 1991 link
Misc
- Retrotechtacular: WW2 paraset spy radio used by French resistance link
- [YouTube] German WW2 wettersonde, radiosonde type C in operation by LA6NCA link
- Global Frequency Database - catalog of signals and stations link
- HF underground database - wiki/catalog of signals and stations link
- Letter beacons link
- Hellschreiber beacon in a microcontroller link.
- [Talk] DEFCON 19: Build your own Synthetic Aperture Radar link
- [Talk] Notacon 10 - DC to Daylight A whirlwind tour of the radio spectrum, and why it matters link
- [Shop] Martin RF supply: US-based RF components shop link
- [Shop] RF parts: US-based RF components link
- Real world RF filter design and construction link
- Troposcatter Communication Networks link
- The Conet Project: recordings of number radio stations in the HF bands link
- Radio direction finding link
Space and air comms.
- [Talk] 2013 Hugo Teso, Hack in the box security conference - Aircraft Hacking: Practical Aero Series link
- [Talk] 2014 Hugo Teso, SEC-T - Going deeper on aviation security link
- [Talk] 2015 Hugo Teso, Rooted CON - And last but not least important… link
- [Talk] 2015 Balint Seeber - Rescuing ISEE-3 with Software-Defined Radio link
- [Talk] 28c3: Building a Distributed Satellite Ground Station Network - A Call To Arms link
- NASA deep space network link
- Japanese planespotter building software for ADSB, ACARS, VDL and more link
- US military UHF TACSAT/DAMA link
Magnetic loop articles
- VE2LJX - “To automatically tune a loop antenna” link
- KK5JY - magnetic loop controller link
- EA7BDD - loop antenna collection link
- VE3UK - loop antenna collection link
- F5RDS - magnetic loop link
- M0HWD - magnetic loop link
- VK2RH - magnetic loop link
Electronics
- The construction of a triode link
- [Shop] Antique Electronic Supply link
- Nostalgia air - Online Antique and Vintage Radio References link
- Electronics books from the tube age link
- Building the Apolo Guidance Computer (in your basement) link
- AGC Schematics link
- [YouTube] linuxgeek81: channel on microcontroller electronics link
- KiCad best practices link
- Building a Random Number Generating Geiger Counter link
- Octopart: the component database link
- Kicad video series: from concept to manufacturing link
Embedded Systems
- Embedded linux bootlin (former free electrons): resources on embedded linux. link
- Linux device drivers: the book by Corbet et al. published by O’Reilly. link
- Serial programming guide for POSIX operating systems link
- Serial programming HOWTO link
- Computers in spaceflight link
- Beej’s guides: home of the Beej’s guides for IPC, network programming, GDB and C link
- Programming in C, UNIX System Calls and Subroutines using C link
- What every programmer should know about memory link
- UML for C programmers link
- Misc. AVR resources link
- Modern C++ in embedded systems link
- Coverity scan - static analysis link
- Sonarsource code analysis tools link
- Lessons in algorithms SparkFun style link
- Mastering stack and heap for system reliability: Part 1 – Calculating stack size link
- A step-by-step guide to using static analysis to debug embedded software link
- FreeRTOS Add-ons link
- [YouTube] Code generation for embeddded devices with magicdraw link
- PID without a PhD link
- ARM, Docker and RasberryPi link
- [YouTube] FPGA design with Free Software: The Lattice iCE40 HX1K/HX8K FPGA link
- Redis: in-memory data structure store link
- quantum leaps on state machines link
- osPID an open-source PID controller linl.
Misc. Software
- Notes on the practice of software engineering by Joel Spolsky link
- [Talk] Software as art - TED talk link
- MIT course notes - Mathematics for Computer Science link
- Magic: the Gathering is Turing complete link
- Shodan - The Internet-of-Things browser link
- [Doucmentary] 2016 Zero Days, a documentary on Stuxnet link
- [YouTube] Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond link
- Open-source NASA software link
- Open-source NASA projects link
- Code contrcts for .net link
- PyDBC method preconditions, method postconditions and class invariants for Python. link
- OpenJML program verification tool for Java link
- Python library for making nomograms link
- Making tmux Pretty and Usable Making tmux Pretty and Usable link
- Pandoc - a universal document converter https://pandoc.org/
- mapbox SDK https://www.mapbox.com/.
- 1959 - “Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers” link.
- 0x10c wikipedia a hard science fiction game with a custom-built 16bit processor that never really took off. Mentioned in osnews.
Personal websites
- M1GEO link
- EA4GPZ link
- S53MV link
- YO3GGX link
- G4ILO Silent Key link
- AJ4VD link
- LA6NCA Collector of WWW2 German radios link
- David Taylor’s website on satellite radio link
- EA1DDO link
- EA1CDV link
- EB5AGV link
- PA0FRI link
- DD4WH link
- Richard Andersson link
- Nathan Chantrell link
- KK5JY - Several loop antenna designs link
Data visualization and Photography
- ~1940 - Chart of electromagnetic radiations link
- ~1980 - Integrated Space Plan link
- Radiation Dose Chart link
- Moebio Labs - A data scientist portfolio on visualization link
- History of the internet - link
- PIctorial COmmunication Language link
- What is probabilisty computing link
- Visual complexity link
- Edward Tufte The visual display of quatitative information link
- Explaining Diagrams: a short introduction link
- Martin Miller on behance link
- Martin Miller personal website link
- Most powerful supercomputers and brains link
- Just Landed - 61 Hours - H1N1 link
- COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center of Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkings University link to arcgis, raw data on COVID-19 propagation link to github repository.
- [SPANISH] Problemas en la fotografía de museos link
- Plex - IBM typography link
- C64 Yourself - Send your images back to 1982 link.
Misc
- What caffeine actually does to your brain link
- The artifacts of geek history in Jay Walker’s library link
- THE office link
- [Talk] 2011 Jeri Ellsworth DTV engineering link
- [Talk] 2013 DEF CON 18 - Zoz - Pwned By The Owner: What Happens When You Steal A Hacker’s Computer link
- Braitenberg Vehicles simulator link
- The sailing laboratory named after Gagarin link
- [Documentary] [SPANISH] Hackers del espacio link
- Dilbert will be an engineer link
- [Talk] 2013 bionerd23 Radioactivity is in the Air for You and Me link
- [Documentary] Inside Chernobyl - Robots min 9:23 link
- [Documentary] Chernobyl 3828 link
- [Shop] 0-day clothing link
- Mental Model Musings - System Thinking link
- [Shop] Dudek modern goods link
- Easy, Fast & Cheap Method For PDF Book Binding link
- Nuclear battery kit link
- The open source calculator link
- Tallinn manual 2.0 on the international law applicable to cyber operations link
DIY
- Handmade miniature v12 engine featured in Hackaday link
- [YouTube] Patelo complete engine collection link
- [Vintage Documentary] M48 Patton Tank: “Birth of a Tank” 1954 US Army; The Big Picture TV-292 link
- [Shop] Servocity: mechanical components shop link
- The heirloom chemistry set: link
- [YouTube] Richard Feynman lectures on Physics link
- Kenbak implementation in arduino link.
Cold war
- Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine link
- Cold war locations to visit in Scandinavia and the Baltics link
- KGB Hack and the story behind 23 link
- History of NSA general-purpose electronic digital computers link
- Cryptology’s Role in the Early Development of Computer Capabilities in the United States link
- Nakskov submarine link
WW2
- [Talk] 2013 Anja Drephal WW2 Hackers Stalin’s best men, armed with paper and pen link
- Beeping the enemy into submission link
- The Kammhuber Line link
- The German tank problem link
- Weapons target assignment problem link
- Military robots and the laws of war link
- VCF East: Enigma machines in the flesh link
- Weather Station Kurt link
Software
- Quake III code review link
- CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation link
- Buggy software and missile defense link
- Comefrom statement, sibling of goto link
- Brainf*uck programming language link
- A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers link
Space
- SatNOGS Open Source global network of satellite ground-stations link
- The librespace community website link
- 360 panorama of the Space Shuttle by National Geographic.
- [Podcast] Small Steps, Giant Leaps https://player.fm/series/small-steps-giant-leaps
Licensing: I do not hold the copyright of these resources. If you want to reuse them, check the license of the original source and/or contact its publisher.