[JKCalhoun]

I've seen these DSP radio receivers on AliExpress that have SDR, a touch screen — all in a small form factor. I'm not aware though if there are any intuitive, well crafted software for them that would allow a novice to play around with them, perhaps even call up satellite imagery like the blog post.

[polalavik]

There’s GNU Radio and PySDR. I’m not sure they are entirely intuitive but they are pretty good.

[JKCalhoun]

My experience with GNU Radio was that it was a construction kit for creating receivers. But, yeah, that's not the kind of intuitive front end I was thinking of.

PySDR I'll have to check out.