Show HN: I reverse-engineered the RLF log format used by REMUS underwater drones

Category: library

Tags: reverse-engineering, binary-parser, underwater-vehicles

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 5)

A Python parser and web viewer for the binary log format of REMUS-100 autonomous underwater vehicles, reverse-engineered from public datasets. It decodes 32 record types including navigation, sensor, and mission data, providing CLI, API, and browser-based interactive exploration. The project is interesting for its empirical approach to undocumented binary format analysis and its practical utility for oceanographic research.

Target audience: data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/isaacgerg/remus-rlf-reader · Python · AGPL-3.0

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