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Mobile Phone Basestation created on Raspberry Pi

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Basestation created on Raspberry Pi

Wireless experts from PA Consulting have used a Raspberry Pi to run a mobile phone basestation that operates a private network. The team hooked the Raspberry Pi up to a radio interface and, using Open Source software, implemented the functionality of a mobile basestation. Along with two mobile phones with sim cards, PA created all the functionality to make the phones talk to each other. PA set up its Raspberry Pi in a screened room to ensure no laws on frequency spectrum were broken.

Read their article and watch the video here.

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Interface board for Olimex UEXT modules for Raspberry Pi

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RPi-UEXT

Olimex have brought out a new board which allows the Raspberry Pi to have access to UEXT modules like Relay modules, Thermocouple sensor modules, 3-axis magnetometer and accelerometers, Zigbee, WiFi, GSM, GPS etc.

You can purchase one here: RPi-UEXT.

This is a fantastic little board that works not only to give access to UEXT but also breaks out the GPIO pins very neatly. At only a little under 4 euros, you can’t really go wrong – it’s cheaper than the similar Pi Cobbler boards.

The Olimex blog post announcing it can be found here and there is a post looking at the release announcement here.

A comprehensive look at what you can do with the board is contained in the original pre-release announcement.