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Then We Had to Iterate Over Every Pixel of the Radar to Get It to Work for the Next Processor.
An early version of the radar was built on a development kit board and then they stopped selling it. It gave distances and the distances were scaled fairly accurate so it's a you know 50 meters out there's this target, moving in this direction. We had to process it from that into a jpeg and again it was nearly one-to-one this raw data but it just wasn't in a recognizable format. The for each fun was not yet optimized and i did two things that brought it down from something like five or ten seconds down to 80 milliseconds where today these things run at native speed.
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