the archive

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

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

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