Trying To Run DOOM With The Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver
Experiments running DOOM on the Raspberry Pi 4's V3DV Vulkan driver, contributing patches for missing pixel formats and texture compression to upstream Mesa.
Hey, I’m Luigi.
I program GPUs to hunt aliens at the Allen Telescope Array. Building real-time pipelines for signal visualization and data processing for fun. Creator of CyberEther, Stelline, PiSDR, and BLADE.
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Blog
Monitoring GNSS Constellations with Galmon Using the LimeNET Micro Ublox-M8 Module
Setting up a GNSS multi-constellation monitor using the LimeNET Micro's built-in Ublox module to feed satellite health data to the Galmon crowdsourced network.
Software Defined Doppler Radar with LimeSDR Mini
Building a low-cost Doppler radar using a LimeSDR Mini and GNU Radio to measure vehicle speeds, with tests validated against real-world measurements.
Reverse Engineering GOES-16 CDA Telemetry
Reverse engineering the GOES-16 telemetry signal using GNU Radio and Open Satellite Project software to demodulate and decode CCSDS frames.
Outernet Receiver with a Wifi Grid Antenna
Receiving Outernet's L-Band satellite signal using a repurposed Wi-Fi grid antenna and RTL-SDR, with demodulation via LeanDVB on a Raspberry Pi.
Receiving & Demodulating the Meteor Satellite
Receiving and decoding digital LRPT imagery from Russia's Meteor-M N2 weather satellite using an RTL-SDR and a QFH antenna.
Quadrifilar Antenna for NOAA APT Satellites
Building a quadrifilar helix antenna to receive APT imagery from NOAA polar-orbiting weather satellites using an RTL-SDR.
Projects
cyberether.org
CyberEther
Cross-platform flowgraph pipeline for real-time signal visualization and data processing.
stelline.space
Stelline
Modular toolbox for real-time astronomy pipelines on GPUs, NVMe, and RDMA fabrics.
github.com
BLADE
GPU-accelerated beamforming and signal processing framework for the Allen Telescope Array.
Gallery
Talks
FastML 2025 - Next Generation GPU Signal Processing Pipeline for Radio Astronomy
Zurich, Switzerland – Overview of the Allen Telescope Array's next-generation signal processing pipeline, built on NVIDIA Holoscan SDK and NEXUS orchestration for real-time processing.
NVIDIA GTC 2025 – The Instrumental Edge: Enabling Real-Time AI Scientific Discovery
San Jose, CA – Discussion of the SETI Institute's use of NVIDIA Holoscan for real-time AI-powered technosignature detection of Fast Radio Bursts at the edge.
IAC 2024 – BLADE: Allen Telescope Array GPU Accelerated Real-Time Beamformer
Milan, Italy – Presented at the 75th International Astronautical Congress, this paper describes BLADE's architecture and how it processes ~1 Tbps of data in real-time for the Allen Telescope Array.
Media
SETI Institute – Accelerating the Search for Life Beyond Earth with NVIDIA IGX Thor
This next-generation pipeline processes radio signals in real-time, building on earlier IGX Orin success to transform how we search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
NVIDIA Blog – SETI Institute Researchers Engage in World’s First Real-Time AI Search for Fast Radio Bursts
Using the Holoscan SDK, 28 antennas pointed at the Crab Nebula captured and analyzed nearly 100Gbps of data. This world-first demonstrates how accelerated computing can revolutionize astronomical signal detection.
NVIDIA Developer – How SETI Uses AI to Search for Intelligent Alien Life
A showcase for AI methods detecting pulsar signals 6,500 light years away. Custom neural networks running on NVIDIA hardware prove that finding cosmic needles in haystacks requires superhuman computational approaches.
