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Homemade synthetic aperture radar – Henrik's Blog

23 pointsby ereli1almost 7 years ago

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jcimsalmost 7 years ago
Newer version in this post - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hforsten.com&#x2F;third-version-of-homemade-6-ghz-fmcw-radar.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hforsten.com&#x2F;third-version-of-homemade-6-ghz-fmcw-rad...</a><p>An interesting application of CW radar - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hforsten.com&#x2F;heartbeat-detection-with-radar.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hforsten.com&#x2F;heartbeat-detection-with-radar.html</a><p>At 45 years old I feel like I&#x27;ve learned quite a bit, but when I read stuff like this I wonder if there are enough years left in my life to learn what to takes to put something like this together.<p>I will say that the little CW doppler radar boards are fun to tinker with. You can get them on amazon for &lt;$10 shipped, power them with 5 volts and just wire the output to a microphone jack.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;SMAKN-Microwave-10-525GHz-Doppler-Detector&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B00FFW4AZ4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;SMAKN-Microwave-10-525GHz-Doppler-Det...</a><p>This is what a coin toss over a 10GHz doppler device sounds like: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8riretP8ylE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8riretP8ylE</a>