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A project log for Simple, low-cost FMCW radar

A basic radar system makes radar accessible at low cost for experiments with rangefinding & navigation of autonomous aircraft or spacecraft.

luke-westonLuke Weston 12/22/2014 at 11:320 Comments

It needs a bit of filtering and frequency domain analysis, Fourier stuff, to extract the information you want, eg range, or speed, or imaging, and discard the stuff you don't. But that's mainly a software problem - there's now an analog output ready for the computer.

Sure, I can do basic proximity detection and rangefinding at the bench scale with existing ultrasound or infrared sensors, but this is so much more interesting.

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