https://blog.herlein.com/tags/rf/ Recent content in Rf on Greg Herlein Hugo en &copy; 2018-2026. All rights reserved. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:01 -0800 https://blog.herlein.com/post/whale-ham-radio-backhaul/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:01 -0800 https://blog.herlein.com/post/whale-ham-radio-backhaul/ <p>Two and a half years into my whale song project I&rsquo;ve killed one platform, walked away from a $13K dev kit, gotten my ham license, and pivoted to (water-borne) drones. I can do that link myself across the Bay of Banderas with a radio I&rsquo;m now legally allowed to key up. Read on.</p> https://blog.herlein.com/post/claude-code-gocat/ Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:01 -0800 https://blog.herlein.com/post/claude-code-gocat/ <p>In my <a href="https://blog.herlein.com/post/claude-code/">previous post about Claude Code</a>, I talked about using VS Code devcontainers to safely run Claude in &ldquo;dangerous mode.&rdquo; That was great for a typical software project. But what about something harder? What about porting a complex hardware-interfacing library from Python to Go, where you need to deeply understand USB protocols, radio registers, and firmware internals?</p> <p>That&rsquo;s exactly what I did with <a href="https://github.com/gherlein/gocat">gocat</a> – a Go library for controlling the YardStick One sub-GHz RF transceiver. And Claude Code was instrumental in making it happen.</p>