Hackaday’s report from Hackaday Europe 2026 follows Anders Nielsen’s effort to build a transparent, low-cost software-defined radio rather than rely entirely on a closed off-the-shelf platform. The project progressed from soundcard tests to a dual-ADC design, and the live demonstration received the full FM broadcast band at once.
For experimenters, the useful takeaway is the tradeoff between bandwidth, sampling depth, clocking, filtering, and careful PCB layout. The report also describes planned front-end, low-noise-amplifier, and filtering improvements—practical areas for amateurs exploring SDR receiver design.
Original source: Hackaday Europe 2026: High Performance SDR On The Cheap
