Coffee-Can Radar

Photos: Grace Schneider Field Tests: Ranging is done in place [top], but for imaging the gear must be moved laterally [bottom]. As I stand on the side of the road, a couple of joggers stop to ask about the two coffee cans sprouting coaxial cables. “I’m testing a home-brew radar,” I explain, adding as they jog off, “you’re showing up just fine.” It reminded me of an old “Star Trek” episode in which Mr. Spock is transported back in time and must construct a futuristic electronic gadget using only 1930s-era vacuum-tube technology. “What on earth is that?” asks his landlady. “I am endeavoring, ma’am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins,” he answers. Leonard Nimoy’s wry delivery reflects how I felt trying to turn two coffee cans, eight AA batteries, and a few hundred U.S. dollars’ worth of mail-order parts into a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR...

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@Arturo_C_Devesa » 25 Nov '12, 8pm
How to build a SAR (synthetic-aperture radar) with tin cans and AA batteries. [link] #highTech
@StevenJCrowley » 09 Nov '12, 11pm
Make a synthetic-aperture radar with coffee cans [link]
@madamarr » 09 Nov '12, 8am
こういうの結構好きかも [link]
@albertzurita » 06 Nov '12, 6pm
A personal, private & affordable SAR instrument? RT @elopezbaeza And now with synthetic-aperture imaging system [link]
@manhluong » 05 Nov '12, 10am
Coffee Can Radar. Could this be a nice project for an @adapteva Parallella board? [link]
@SCCMrB » 04 Nov '12, 11pm
Coffee-Can Radar [link] via @zite
@A_Neutron » 04 Nov '12, 2pm
Coffee-Can Radar [link] Cantenna!
@elopezbaeza » 04 Nov '12, 12pm
And now with synthetic-aperture imaging system [link]
@xvdr » 03 Nov '12, 1pm
Coffee-Can Radar [link] #tech #science
@IEEEPanama » 02 Nov '12, 10pm
RT @IEEEorg: Learn how one scientist built a homemade radar with coffee tins and batteries [link] via @IEEESpectrum
@IEEEorg » 02 Nov '12, 10pm
Learn how one scientist built a homemade radar with coffee tins and batteries [link] via @IEEESpectrum
@jstogdill » 02 Nov '12, 2pm
RT @jon_jeckell: Coffee-Can Radar. How to build a synthetic-aperture imaging system with tin cans and AA batteries. [link] // Possibilities
@jon_jeckell » 02 Nov '12, 2pm
Coffee-Can Radar. How to build a synthetic-aperture imaging system with tin cans and AA batteries. [link] // Possibilities
@CoffeeGourmet » 01 Nov '12, 10pm
Coffee-Can Radar - IEEE Spectrum [link]
@IEEEGreen » 01 Nov '12, 7pm
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