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Chibi - A Simple Open Source Wireless Stack

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NewsChibi is an open source wireless stack. Chibi means "midget" in Japanese which describes this stack quite well. It's a no-frills stack that just has three main functions: init, send, and receive. Its meant to be a simple way to establish wireless communications with a wireless radio without getting into a lot of protocol complexity. See this blog post for more info.
 
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OpenBTS

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NewsOpenBTS (OpenBTS on Wikipedia) is a Unix application that uses a software radio to present a GSM air interface to standard 2G GSM handset and uses a SIP softswitch or PBX to connect calls. OpenBTS blog. Interesting.
 
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OpenTag

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NewsHmm, this OpenTag is interesting. From the Wikipedia article: "OpenTag is a DASH7 protocol stack and minimal RTOS, written in C. It is designed to run on microcontrollers or radio SoCs.". It does DASH7 Mode 2, which sounds nice. There is a SourcForge page for it: OpenTag. It looks like activity on the project isn't very high, though.
 
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flashrom

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Newsflashrom (Wikipedia: Flashrom) is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It is designed to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images on mainboards, network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various other programmer devices.
 
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Nostalgia: CanAce - Jupiter Ace emulator

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NewsCanAce is a Jupiter Ace emulator. Jupiter Ace uses Forth as the programming langauge instead of BASIC, which was more common on home computers at that time.
 
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Unprotecting ADE DRM-protected epub files (acsm)

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GNU/LinuxIf you have been unlucky enough to download .acsm files on your Linux machine, and feeling cheated, this is the cure: A WINE Remedy for acsm epub DRM Adobe ADEs. It is not a very quick solution, but it works. If you get an error about P11-Kit and run the 64-bit version of Linux, you might need to employ this fix: (look at answer 1): Wine can't find gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so.
 
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Virtual USB Analyzer

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NewsThe Virtual USB Analyzer is a free and open source tool for visualizing logs of USB packets, from hardware or software USB sniffer tools. As far as we know, it's the world's first tool to provide a graphical visualization along with raw hex dumps and high-level protocol analysis.
 
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rtl-sdr

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NewsA cheap way to get into SDR is with a cheap usb dongle and the rtl-sdr project. Getting Started With RTL-SDR is a nice guide for getting started with it. The rtlsdr.org wiki has some info. Most of the tools you will use need GNU Radio, so you better install that. Tools: Gqrx, multimon, multimonNG,
 
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fhem

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Newsfhem is another home automation project. From the description on the web page: "Fhem is a GPL'd perl server for house automation. It is used to automate some common tasks in the household like switching lamps / shutters / heating / etc. and to log events like temperature / humidity / power consumption."
 
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wikiHow

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NewsI hadn't seen this before now: wikiHow - How to do anything. From their "about" article: "Imagine a world where anyone can easily learn how to do anything. A world where access to comprehensive step-by-step instructions in multiple languages enables billions of people to improve their lives, in both ordinary and extraordinary ways."
 
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