Greg Charvat earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2007, and his dissertation described a low-power radar imaging system (PDF download). Now Dr. Charvat has made his dissertation available for...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday January 22nd, 2013 12:30 PM
Categories: Electronics | 2 Comments
Gregory "Mr. Vacuum Tube" Charvat breaks down an old school police radar.
Posted by John Baichtal | Monday November 12th, 2012 1:30 PM
Categories: Electronics | 2 Comments
In this off-the-cuff video, MIT prof and MAKE pal Gregory Charvat shoots Nerf darts into the beam of an old X-band Doppler radar gun with its output hacked into a...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday June 4th, 2012 9:00 AM
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Radio hacker extraordinaire Greg Charvat is back with this 15-minute video lecture showing off and explaining the measurement of moving objects’ velocities using the low-cost coffee can radar system he...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday January 17th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Education, Electronics | 1 Comment
Radio whiz Greg Charvat just published this video showing off a very cool experiment with the low-cost coffee can radar system he and co-workers developed, in the fall of 2010,...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday December 13th, 2011 6:00 AM
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The MIT Open Courseware (OCW) radar materials from Dr. Gregory L. Charvat (and peers) that Matt blogged about back in February have just been released! This is hands-on education that...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday August 23rd, 2011 8:58 AM
Categories: Education, Electronics | 5 Comments
Whats more hardcore than making your own synthetic aperture radar system? How about teaching a class how to build their own using some breadboardable electronics, empty coffee cans, and a...
Posted by Matt Mets | Thursday February 3rd, 2011 1:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, General | 14 Comments
Radio hacker extraordinaire Greg Charvot recently finished constructing this homebrew radio transceiver for the 20 M SSB ham radio band
Posted by Matt Mets | Saturday November 6th, 2010 6:01 PM
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Greg Charvat, a researcher at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, wrote in to share his old workshop, the Rad Lab: This workshop is full of microwave test gear, analog test gear, new...
Posted by John Baichtal | Friday July 9th, 2010 11:12 AM
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Radar hacker and radio restorer extraordinaire Greg Charvat made this Portable Amateur Radio Two-way Station (PARTS), fitting an entire HF radio setup into a vintage WW2 foot locker.
Posted by Matt Mets | Monday July 5th, 2010 3:14 AM
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Ever wish you could build a radar system like the ones used on space missions and spy satellites?
Posted by Matt Mets | Wednesday June 16th, 2010 10:42 AM
Categories: Electronics, General | 3 Comments
Ever wonder what goes into the design of a vacuum tube audio amplifier?
Posted by Matt Mets | Saturday April 10th, 2010 1:12 PM
Categories: Electronics, Music | No Comments
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