Pranking Colleagues with the USRP B210 Software Defined Radio

The Ettus USRP B210 is an advanced $1,100 software defined radio that is capable of both transmit and receive. Balint, one of the researchers at Ettus, has posted a video showing how he was able to play a light hearted prank on some of his colleagues using the B210.

Earlier in the year we posted about how Oona Raisanen was able to use her RTL-SDR to receive and decode restaurant pagers (the wireless devices given out at some restaurants to notify you when your food is ready).

Balint used his USRP210 controlled by a mobile phone app to transmit a fake signal to his colleague’s pager, causing it to activate before his food was ready.

You Can Page Me Anytime - USRP B210 + GNU Radio (teaser)

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warren

AVOID AT ALL COST!
EXTREME PIA TO SET UP, YOU WILL WASTE WEEKS GETTING THIS P.O.S. TO WORK!

john Doe

Just because you are not capable doesn’t bring all the remaining population at your level. Did you try to read the documentation or did you expect to use it like a 7$ chinese dongle?