Kilakila: A Software-Defined Radio Satellite on a Shoestring Budget
Syed
Short talk
Time
June 22, 2025 1:30-1:50 PM
Location
Talk Track Two
Good Ancestor Kilakila is an experimental communications cubesat offering extensive software-defined and hardware-defined radio capabilities. Built on a shoestring budget with a very rapid timeline, the satellite showcases many of the usual suspects of open hardware, including:
- LimeSDR-XTRX software defined radio
- Raspberry Pi Compute Module
- Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller
- Zephyr real-time operating system
- Raspberry Pi Camera Module
This talk will walk through a the good, the bad, and the ugly of the design process, hardware architecture, and planned satellite operations.
Made possible with generous support from Lime Microsystems.
