Nerd-Verlag Friedrich Riedhammer (DJ2RF)

Books and resources for IoT, Software Defined Radio, and technical enthusiasts.

Nerd-Verlag publishes hands-on technical books with real depth.
Our focus is on practical knowledge, reproducible experiments,
code examples, and real-world projects.


Our Books

🛠 Nerdverlag TechLab

Practical projects covering amateur radio, SDR, electronics, LoRa, IoT,
microcontrollers, test and measurement, and software.
In-depth articles, build projects, and digital editions.

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📡 ADALM-Pluto SDR

A practical guide to Software Defined Radio using the ADALM-Pluto.
Covers GNU Radio, MATLAB, Python, measurements, and hands-on projects.

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🔌 LoRa Mesh Radio

This book shows how simple LoRa experiments evolve into a stable and secure embedded mesh network.

MeshRadio focuses on real engineering decisions — from basic communication to a professional-grade architecture.

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📊 LoRa Mesh Radio Analyser

Make LoRa signals visible, understandable, and measurable.

The practical manual for SDR basics, spectrum, waterfall, spectrogram, burst detection, logging, payload analysis, troubleshooting, and field operation.

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🔌 AIoT Book

IoT fundamentals and practice: sensors, networks, protocols, embedded systems, and real-world applications.

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🤖 Technical Projects with AI

AI as a tool for real technical projects.
Planning, writing, software development, debugging, documentation, websites and publishing — without hype.
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Software

📡 Drone-Scan Software



Drone-Scan is a passive, SDR-based software tool for analyzing radio-frequency activity and identifying drone-typical signal patterns.
It provides real-time spectrum visualization and RF situational awareness without decoding protocols, transmitting signals, or relying on black-box algorithms.

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📶 LoRa Mesh Radio Analyser



LoRa Mesh Radio Analyser / LoRa RF Analyzer is an SDR-based analysis tool for finding, evaluating, documenting and decoding LoRa signals.
It combines RTL-SDR spectrum analysis, waterfall display, LoRa spectrograms and optional real LoRa hardware modules for packet reception, CRC checking and payload decoding.

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Documentation & Downloads

Additional material is available for all books:

  • Source code examples
  • Errata and corrections
  • Project files
  • Extended documentation

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