Hacker News Reader

Comment by jacquesm | Hacker News Reader

I don't think you should call something 'open source' until you've released the source, but other than that this is an extremely impressive project. HAM's have been doing EME since forever (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Ear... ), it is a very neat trick.

It almost looks as if the EME bounce capability of this antenna is a fig leaf or an afterthought, my own 'applications' list would be a lot of things, but not that.

View on HN

Apparently it’s a way to attract attention and support. I’ve been following picoIDE which got some attention here on HN 4 months ago [1]. When asked then where the src is, the answer was in a few weeks. Fast-forward a crowd-supply campaign (no mention 4 months ago) to the tune of 350k and the repo is still empty.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45949352

It's open source. Here is the GitHub: https://github.com/open-space-sdr/main

Have you actually looked in that repo? No hardware source and a few things related to sdr or fpga but nothing that allows someone to build this.

You can find all the software there (for every demo shown on the website), but it's not "build-ready" given the hardware isn't released yet as the website makes clear. The repo is from last year but not generally advertised.

I suppose HN picked up on this project again because of the moon mission this week.

It was discussed a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790672

I think mrtnmcc put up that repo as a response to my comment. And you're right there is no way to build it from what's posted.

Repo has been there, but I pushed an update for the latest demos, thanks for the reminder :)

You have to understand this is a relatively sleepy personal project at this point still.