{"id":10295,"date":"2015-04-29T08:15:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T12:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2015-04-29T08:15:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T12:15:48","slug":"open-source-ground-penetrating-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/open-source-ground-penetrating-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"Open-source ground penetrating RADAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/project\/4440-open-ground-penetrating-radar\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Open ground penetrating RADAR<\/strong><\/a> is an ongoing open-source project initiated by\u00a0Glenn Powers as his entry for the <strong>2015 Hackaday Prize<\/strong>. The aim is to make a Raspberry Pi powered RADAR system to look into the Earth\u00a0for less than $500.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10296\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=10296\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10296\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10296\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10296\" alt=\"Ground penetrating RADAR design\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/682341424845617196.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/682341424845617196.png 450w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/682341424845617196-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/682341424845617196-90x90.png 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ground penetrating RADAR design<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Commercial ground penetrating radar systems cost thousands of dollars. This project aims to create an open hardware alternative for about $500, using a Raspberry Pi with PiMSO to save data for later analysis and send instantaneous results to a web browser on a tablet or smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>A Baofeng VHF\/UHF radio is used a signal generator, which transmits via a Transmit\/Recieve switch through an antenna. A RF detector is also connected to the T\/R switch, which is connected to the MSO-19.<\/p>\n<p>The radio controller is a 4N25 opto-isolator.<\/p>\n<p>The T\/R switch controller is a SN74HC04N (or similar) hex inverter.<\/p>\n<p>Any Pi-compatible GPS and WiFi dongle will do.<\/p>\n<p>The Raspberry Pi triggers the radio, T\/R switch and MSO-19 via a buffered GPIO port once per second using a very simple python script.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open ground penetrating RADAR is an ongoing open-source project initiated by\u00a0Glenn Powers as his entry for the 2015 Hackaday Prize. The aim is to make a Raspberry Pi powered RADAR system to look into the Earth\u00a0for less than $500. Commercial ground penetrating radar systems cost thousands of dollars. This project aims to create an open hardware alternative for about $500, using a Raspberry Pi with PiMSO to save data for later analysis and send instantaneous results to a web browser on a tablet or smartphone. A Baofeng VHF\/UHF radio is used a signal generator, which transmits via a Transmit\/Recieve switch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[1174,1136],"class_list":["post-10295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raspberry-pie","tag-ground-penetrating-radar","tag-raspberry-pi-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10298,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions\/10298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}