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Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A quad copter with 500g of payload would be just as effective

[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The drone operator would be in the radar station's LOS, even if this thing couldn't detect a drone, which it can...

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I guess I'm not sure the point.

[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

I don't know, what's the point of the more expensive stations these are comparable to?