Hey! I'm building a 24 GHz FMCW radar from scratch this summer as a personal project (this is my first RF project I have designed two pcbs before (not RF)). The idea is that the radar transmits a chirp and when it bounces off an object, the echo comes back slightly delayed. By mixing the transmitted and received signals together, I get a LF beat signal whose frequency tells me how far away the object is. By transmitting many chirps in sequence and tracking how the phase of that beat signal shifts from chirp to chirp, I can also extract the velocity of moving objects. I'm designing a custom microstrip patch antenna array on Rogers 4003C substrate and Im using the BGT24MTR11 chip from Infineon which handles the 24 GHz signal generation and mixing, and processing everything in real time on an STM32H7 microcontroller running range and Doppler FFTs. The end goal is a working radar that can detect objects, measure their distance to centimeter-level accuracy, and show a live range-Doppler map on my laptop.Do you think this is a reasonable project for my first RF project and as a junior in EE? what are your recommendations ?

 

Uh. No.

 

Uh. No.

)) what kinds of projects would you recommend ?