Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
Super excited (and rather surprised!) to win the 1st place prize in the Homebrew Contest at this month’s River City Amateur Radio Communications Society club meeting last night! My entry was something I’ve been working on over the past few months on and off to get ready in time for this month’s contest. There were …
Running Packet Radio apps in a Docker container, on a Raspberry Pi? Are you mad I hear you ask?Isn’t it hard enough to get ax25 and Packet Radio up and running on the Pi anyway? Having done this a few times already, this was my thinking, and I had the crazy idea that encapsulating most …
In my last post (part 2, also see part 1 here), I talked about Twitter’s API rate limits. Since many Packet Radio transmissions are duplicates by their nature, for example, beacon packets and ID packets, it’s important to have some kind of mechanism to prevent sending these through to Twitter. The approach I used was …
Quick update on my project to build an Amateur Radio Packet to Twitter bridge (see here for the first post). I’ve moved the node.js code to a Raspberry Pi 3. So far I have up and running: OAUTH authentication with Twitter (covered in my first post) Installed node.js on the Raspberry Pi Parsing ax25 Packets …