Build Your Own Drone Tracking Radar: Part 1

Build Your Own Drone Tracking Radar: Part 1

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Publish Date:
30 December, 2023
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Drone Tech
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This is the first video in a new 5 part series where I will show you how to build and program your own radar. At the end, we'll use it to locate a small drone. Each video will start with basic radar concepts that I will first explain and then demonstrate. Over the course of the videos, the radar will grow until we have a more complete radar that can generate the classic range doppler plots.

0:00 -- Introduction
1:04 -- Disclaimers
2:35 -- Overview of the Video Series
4:52 -- Basics of Radar Hardware
7:58 -- Option 1: MIT Cantenna Radar
11:11 -- Option 2: Pluto
13:04 -- Option 3: Pluto + Mixers
14:47 -- Option 4: the Phaser
18:30 -- Conclusion

Here are the links used in this video:

Pluto: https://www.analog.com/adalm-pluto.html
Phaser: https://www.analog.com/cn0566
Radar Software: https://github.com/jonkraft/PhaserRadarLabs

MIT Lincoln Labs Coffee Can Radar:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-ll-003-build-a-small-radar-system-capable-of-sensing-range-doppler-and-synthetic-aperture-radar-imaging-january-iap-2011/

Pluto (only) Radar Setups:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdYfmMYW_R0
https://events.gnuradio.org/event/8/contributions/34/attachments/10/95/2021%20GRC%20presentation%20Cai%20and%20Kraft%20v9.pdf
https://youtu.be/MQi-sQ1GZcY

Pluto + Mixers Radar Setups:
https://youtu.be/FakkMgzru2E
https://youtu.be/63qY9tYhhro?si=tfk9vlWQzfLxhtBJ&t=229


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