More continuous wave radar fun

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[Gregory Charvat] continues to have a great time testing out radar systems. He and a friend have pointed the radar out the garage door and are using it to see who can reach a high running velocity. The last time we looked in on [Greg's] work he had acquired an old police radar unit and wired it up to use with a laptop. The hardware he's working with now is a lot more bulky and we don't think it … [Read more...]

Cutting styrofoam with a CNC machine and turning it into aluminum

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One of the most popular ways of turning an object trapped inside the world of a computer into a real, metal object is the art of lost wax, or lost foam casting. In this process, a full-scale model of the object to be made in metal is crafted in either foam or wax, placed in a pile of sand, and burned away by molten metal. [ptflea] over at the Bamberg, Germany hackerspace Backspace came up with … [Read more...]