Pocket Chaos: Coding (and Decoding) on the R36S
Intro There's something slightly absurd about turning a tiny retro handheld into both an app development platform and a weak-signal radio decoder. The R36S - cheap, hackable, and rough around the edges - wasn't built for any of this. That's exactly why it works. The Constraint Advantage Modern development hides inefficiency. The R36S exposes it. With limited CPU, RAM, and screen space, you're forced to: Write tighter code Design simpler interfaces Think in constraints, not abstractions That same constraint-driven thinking applies perfectly to signal processing tasks like FT8. ...