mikewolak/MegaWifiSDR

MegaWifiSDR is a highly specialized hobbyist project occupying the intersection of retro-gaming hardware and amateur radio. With 1 star and minimal activity, it is a personal experiment rather than a commercial or infrastructure-grade tool. Its defensibility is low because it targets a tiny niche (owners of a specific Sega Genesis WiFi cartridge), but its 'moat' is ironically the obscurity of the hardware—no frontier lab or major platform would ever seek to compete in the 16-bit console radio market. The project is technically impressive for its use of M68k fixed-point DSP and PWM audio on 30-year-old hardware, but it remains a 'cool hack' rather than a scalable technology. It is unlikely to be displaced simply because the market incentive to build a competing Sega Genesis SDR client is non-existent. From a technical perspective, it is a novel combination of modern IoT protocols (KiwiSDR, ESP32) and legacy architecture.