The Thought Emporium shows how to receive clear images directly from GOES-15, 16 and 17 and Himawari 8 geostationary weather satellites with software-defined radio. It covers the extra effort needed to receive GOES data.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN commenters credit it for inspiring their own satellite-reception hobby and praise the channel's high-quality content.
“The Thought Emporium makes really high quality content.”HN comment, 2022
Inspired a hobby of receiving GOES satellite imagery
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I'm in the process of setting up an antenna for receiving data from the GOES-15 weather satellite. I'm just starting out but got inspired after watching this video (no affiliation with the channel). this video People have been able to get some stunning pictures of the earth from those satellites. Examples: linklinklink If you're interested, check out r/rtlsdr, which is where I first was introduced to the hobby. It's full of helpful people.
Strongly recommendsnotsoundApr 2022
“The Thought Emporium makes really high quality content.”
High quality content across varied projects from the channel
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The sequel to this video: this video The Thought Emporium makes really high quality content. He does a lot of things, most recently covering things in metal, but in the past they have made videos on gene editing, growing opals, and making holograms. It’s a lot of different topics, all presented very well.
RecommendsjedimastertDec 2018
“A YouTube channel called The Thought Emporium has a series about using a sdr called the HackRF”
Series on using HackRF for radio telescope and satellite reception
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A YouTube channel called The Thought Emporium has a series about using a sdr called the HackRF to make a radio telescope and a satellite receiver for a few weather sats. this video
Cites itbarbazooMay 2023
Prompted a question about satellite downlink encryption
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I was just watching this video and I wonder if some satellites encrypt the content before sending it to earth.
