Video: Build a Coffee-Can Radar: A quick look at the workings of the DIY coffee-can radar from MIT

Video: Build a Coffee-Can Radar

Video: Build a Coffee-Can Radar: A quick look at the workings of the DIY coffee-can radar from MIT

Researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory devised a radar system that any avid DIYer should have no trouble reproducing . This simple radar system provides a basis for courses being taught at MIT and elsewhere. It is capable not only of measuring velocities but also of finding the range to targets. You can even make crude synthetic-aperture radar images with it. David Schneider: I put the radar signal here on my oscilloscope, I turn it on, and you’ll see the waveform change. David Schneider: Hi, I’m Dave Schneider for IEEE Spectrum magazine, and this is the MIT coffee-can radar. There may be a few hundred dollars in parts here, but considering that you can use this not only to measure speeds, like a police radar gun, it can actually be used to measure distances very well and even, crudely, as a synthetic-aperture radar. So we’re out at a local ball field, and we’re going to ...

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