This is just a blog post, and thus a regular submission and explicitly off-topic for Show HN. Everyone clicking on this will be disappointed, as demonstrated by the comments so far. There isn’t even a video for us to see the effect.
I understand that this was meant to be a retelling of how the build process went and what happened afterwards, but it seems quite light on the actual results? I would have liked to see a video demonstrating how well it lets the user see through walls!
"We didn’t qualify for the standard prizes — perhaps spending only 30 seconds on our presentation and lacking a live-demo setup had killed our chances."
That's the result of the competition, but what I want is a demonstration of the actual project: in an uncongested area, take a video of someone walking behind a wall and demonstrate that you can still locate them.
working on v2.0!! realizing how it comes across now. Oculus link does not allow for recording & we have a shitty mp4 in a google drive of it working thru a phone camera. Left this out because there wasn't time to compile. Just pasted everything into the medium blog.
Rather than re-write, since we all flew home & separated the parts, I'm working on a souped up version w/ friends. We're designing a new pcb in kicad & just want to get something cleaner out.
Happy to email an actual video though if you care to see the blurry pov
There's a brutal difference between a few nerds saying they have the coolest demo, and actually shipping it as something. It's a lesson we all go through, but the marketing and "release" of an idea is an important skill to perfect.
That’s the first line of the Show HN rules.
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
This is just a blog post, and thus a regular submission and explicitly off-topic for Show HN. Everyone clicking on this will be disappointed, as demonstrated by the comments so far. There isn’t even a video for us to see the effect.
I think the HN algo rewards posts with a high points to comments ratio anyway which is a good thing in this case.
Now I read it and find it weird. The core detail how 2 small noisy wifi chips would achieve a 90% detection rate is completely unexplained.
The amount of data they get is minimal too, sounds more like voodoo than real