Earlier this year the successor to the hugely popular Raspberry Pi, the Raspberry Pi 2 was released. The Raspberry Pi 2 is a mini embedded computer that can run Linux.

Over on the RS Design Spark website Andrew Back has posted a tutorial showing how he installed GNU Radio and RTL-SDR on the Raspberry Pi 2. He also shows that the Raspberry Pi 2 runs the CPU intensive GNU Radio software well, utilizing 70% CPU when running osmocom_fft, a GNU Radio based spectrum analyzer. Andrew also installs and tests the gr-air-modes GNU Radio program which is an ADS-B receiver, finding that it also performed well with low CPU utilization.