Qorvo and Nordic have announced a joint reference design for a UWB-based smart lock application for Aliro and Matter and have started shipping their first production batch, welcome Vaaman to the Qorvo RF Accelerator, check out community projects using Discovery Dish, and Zeke Wheeler’s upcoming talk at Teardown 2025.

UWB-Based Smart Lock Reference Design

Qorvo and Nordic have announced a joint reference design for a UWB-based smart lock application to introduce developers to Aliro and Matter access control. Learn more about the collaboration.

Welcome Vaaman

Congrats to Vaaman, the reconfigurable edge computer, which successfully funded as of March 27, 2025. Vaaman is part of the Qorvo RF Accelerator, and uses the Qorvo QPC6324 RF switch on the Vaaman 2TX 2RX SDR HAT

Vaaman Single Board Computer (front and back)

Vaaman 2TX 2RX SDR HAT

Discover Dish Community Projects

Check out these ten community projects that use KrakenRF’s Discovery Dish satellite receiver powered by Qorvo’s QPL9547 RF amplifier.

Apr 10, 2025

Community Projects

A featured update from the Discovery Dish project

Thanks to all our supporters, Discovery Dish is now out in the community, and we have seen you all doing great things with it! Below is a highlight reel of all the reviews and use-cases we've seen our customers sharing online.

by KrakenRF Inc

DIY Space Communication Talk at Teardown 2025

Young innovator Zeke Wheeler’s use of magnetometers and accelerometers for position sensing has never been used before in satellite tracking equipment. Come hear how he did it at Teardown 2025, June 20-22nd in Portland, Oregon.

A Tale of Two Trackers: DIY Space Communication

How an 13 year-old designed, built and 3D printed homemade equipment to speak with an astronaut on the International Space Station over amateur radio