So originally I wanted to build a web inteface for the wi-spy spectrum analyzer. I proved the concept with the first version. You can watch the short video yourself that goes over the design. The biggest problem with the application was that it required a lot of infrastructure. It required a special verion of spec_Tool to collect the data, node.js to supply the web server and a redis daemon to act inbetween. When I started adding code to store off historical data I realized I’d need another technology such as tokyo cabinet and the like. This proved even more difficult because I need a locking mechanism between the reader and the writer.

Finally I decided that it was time to get to the basics. The latest version of this tool is written totally in C (spectool_red) htat will collect data, supply the web interface and store the historical data in tokyo cabinet. This is really only one executable. More details can be found here