@.bishop I haven't actually worked on that, I just plug signal strength from the radar into it. I imagine something like (distance*strength)/10000 might work better, but it's a very subtle effect anyway.

Can u upload also the "processing" to make the blip from the signal strength brighter.
Would be very nice.

@wingnut. I've added details of how each connection works in the details here. That should help.

Also it would be great to see the controls as buttons on the screen

Any chance you can upload an example setup?

@Gardiner. 2/2


On my current set up, the radar "video out" feeding into "video in" of another of these controllers plugged into a laser distance sensor (lidar) mounted on the same pivot as the radar. The lidar also has a "constant on" block feeding into "disable swipe" a and "number" block of 200 feeding into the red channel. This means the same screen shows radar traffic in green and land in a darkish red. You could also probably put a sonar microcontroller in that chain and have a number feeding into the blue channel to show three different scans in three different colours all on the same screen controlled by the same range setter.

@Gardiner. 1/2

The brightness of the green is actually done on the alpha channel and the rest of the screen is transparent so you can do what you're asking:

If you leave the "boat direction" channel disconnected, north will be at the top of the screen, so you can then feed a map microcontroller into the "video in" channel and it will overlay the radar on a map (Not sure how you'd do the scaling though. I think map zoom = 1000*range, but i could be wrong) .

This also lets you daisy chain as many sensors as you want.

as a Radar Operator i approve, do you think you could add a map feature or even over lay a Lidar with it to aid in navigation. i have been trying to do something similar