Collaborate Disseminate
The epicenter of the Chinese electronics scene drew a lot of attention this week as a 70-story skyscraper started wobbling in exactly the way skyscrapers shouldn’t. The 1,000-ft (305-m) SEG …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 23, 2021
On July 4th, 1976, as Americans celebrated the country’s bicentennial with beer and bottle rockets, a strong signal began disrupting shortwave, maritime, aeronautical, and telecommunications signals all over the world. …read more Continue reading The Russian Woodpecker: Official Bird of the Cold War Nests in Giant Antenna
For decades the Duga-1 radar array warned the Soviet Union of incoming missiles, now it’s a monument to a nuclear disaster. Continue reading A Missile Radar in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Is Now a Protected Heritage Site
While early scientists and inventors famously underestimated the value of radar, through the lens of history we can see how useful it became. Even though radar uses electromagnetic waves to …read more Continue reading Ultrasonic Sonar Detects Hidden Objects
Many cars are now equipped with pedestrian-detecting radar systems, but those systems can still be blocked by obstacles such as buildings or other vehicles. A new setup is intended to get around that problem, by taking the radar to the streets.Continue… Continue reading Street-based radar system designed to save pedestrian lives
Astronomers have captured stunning new high-resolution radar images of the Moon, using an experimental instrument mounted on a ground-based telescope. This proof of concept test paves the way for a more powerful radar telescope that could see as far as… Continue reading Experimental planetary radar captures incredible high-res Moon images
Saturn’s moon Titan is one of the most fascinating bodies in the solar system, not least because it’s home to huge oceans, lakes and rivers of liquid methane. Now scientists have used radar to probe the composition and depth of its largest sea, Kraken … Continue reading Depths of alien ocean probed with radar in Cassini study
Ordinarily, if you want to know how soil properties change at different depths, you have to extract soil core samples. Scientists have now determined that the same data can be obtained much more easily, using ground-penetrating radar.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Ground-penetrating radar may be an easier alternative to soil sampling
Israeli company Vayyar says it can replace a bunch of car interior sensors with a single, hidden “4D radar” unit the size of a credit card, saving significant development costs while unlocking a range of upcoming safety features.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading “4D radar-on-a-chip” will keep watch inside cars from 2023
The leap to self-driving cars could be as game-changing as the one from horse power to engine power. If cars prove able to drive themselves better than humans do, the safety gains could be enormous: auto accidents were the #8 cause of death worldwide in 2016. And who doesn’t want …read more
Continue reading Alfred Jones Talks About the Challenges of Designing Fully Self-Driving Vehicles