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Re:Swarmsourcing: Radar Detection by iter on Thursday December 09, 2010 @12:18AM (#1986163)
The detector in my video is a Cobra XRS9345. I am doing what mikeknoop and ruslan are suggesting: hacking into the LEDs and reading the device's idea of what it detects. The actual signaling is non-obvious and I intend to publish the code that interprets them once it's stable. One idea that I'm kicking around is building a kit that you can solder to your detector's LEDs.

I wonder how much market there is for a kit that requires the user to open up his detector.

Ari.

Re:Swarmsourcing: Radar Detection by ruslan on Thursday December 09, 2010 @01:18AM (#1986349)
Ari, aside from legal issues, I think it mostly depends on how hard the installation process is going to be. If you manage to design a very small PCB which will use bluetooth, can be fit inside radar and needs only three wires to solder (DGND, VCC and LED's anode), then you can easily get some users, especially in the Valley where ppl love gadgets which they can create or expand themselves :-).

BTW. For those who are afraid of openning up their detectors you can easily desing a special version which will hook up to the LED using photo-resistor. I.e. a kind of device you stick up to detector and put its sensor over detector's LED.

Re:Swarmsourcing: Radar Detection by iter on Thursday December 09, 2010 @11:31AM (#1988000)
You sound like someone who isn't afraid of soldering. Perhaps you want to test the alpha equipment. [email protected]

Ari.

Re:Swarmsourcing: Radar Detection by ruslan on Thursday December 09, 2010 @02:42PM (#1988801)
I'm located outside of US, though would be happy to try your piece of hardware in my environment. Email sent.