Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSOC] A HTML-based GUI for GNU Radio applications - How do I get started

[Martin Braun]

All that Marcus says is good, I just wanted to emphasize it. You should
gain some familiarity with GNU Radio, make sure you understand how it
works on a basic level, then suggest a path forward for your project.

I would start with a simple application, then think about how you wanted
to present that with an HTML5 toolkit. That's a good starting point for
a project proposal. Two things to keep in mind:
- GNU Radio is all about modularity, so think about how this can be
dynamically generated.
- Keep in mind other HTML-based projects (ShinySDR comes to mind) and
make sure to differentiate from those. This slightly overlaps with the
previous point.

Cheers,
Martin

On 03/13/2017 06:32 AM, Marcus Müller wrote:
> Hi Feroz,
> 
> you've linked to the wrong project's ideas list, but that's not a
> problem. Just for the rest of the readers of this mailing list:
> 
> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/GSoCIdeas
> 
> So, to put it this plain: The GNU Radio project has a lot of people with
> experience in signal processing, but on the user interface side, things
> are a bit slim. So, we can help you a lot with the signal side – but
> from your (excellent, by the way) website, it seems you've got some
> experience with cognitive vision, and that might come with a lot of
> skills that are helpful with (1D) signals.
> 
> So, what you'd ideally bring is a bit of experience on how to write fast
> visualization things in JavaScript – or at least a plan on what to look
> at, as well as to implement that with data coming from a server (which
> not necessarily is far away, might be running on the same machine for now).
> 
> To get a feeling on what you would implement as a web frontend, I'd
> recommend downloading one of the liveDVDs (the standard one is [1]), and
> clicking together a
> 
> signal source -> Throttle -> QT GUI Sink
> 
> flow graph.
> 
> To understand what's happening there, I'd say, start by reading the
> Guided Tutorials [2]. They'll hopefully explain. In essence, GNU Radio
> is a framework to shift around "chunks" of signal samples between
> blocks, and that means that the time intervals and sizes of the samples
> that hit the visualization sink are not uniform, you'd need to come up
> with a reasonable way of visualizing things.
> 
> I think in your proposal, should you decide to write one, you could
> elaborate a bit on what tools/libraries to use to implement the GNU
> Radio/server-side of things as well as how to partition the work between
> the JavaScript/HTML frontend and the Python/C++/GNU Radio backend (who
> decides what pixels to draw? Etc).
> 
> Hope that gives you something to start with,
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Marcus
> 
> [1] http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/GNURadioLiveDVD
> 
> [2] http://tutorials.gnuradio.org
> 
> On 03/13/2017 01:56 PM, Feroz Ahmad wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am an undergrad student from Delhi Technological University, New
>> Delhi. I got interested in the project A HTML-based GUI for GNU Radio
>> applications
>> <https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/SummerOfCode/2017/Ideas> listed in
>> GSOC idea list. 
>> I wish to know what skills are mentor looking in the candidate apart
>> from language skills. I also want to ask how shall I get started.
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>>
>> Feroz Ahmad
>> http://ferozahmad.com/
>> https://github.com/fz-29
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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