2025 · [radar, rf, dsp, embedded, beamforming, startup] the prototype — IWRL6432 + ESP32 inside the casing Software is now a commodity thanks to Claude Code. So the next step is obviously hardware. I spent the last 6 months on building a hardware startup, which was fucking hard. I made a radar that could classify materials, and this is the story of how I did it as my "end of studies" project. By the way, the project never ended (as you will see down this article, because of a lack of funding) I live in Europe, where asbestos is a huge and common pain across every country here. That stuff fills walls, and requires people to come at your place to tell you if you have asbestos contaminated materials in your building. If so, you might have been breathing poison since you were a kid. Asbestos gives you cancer, and can fuck you up pretty bad. The traditional ways of detecting it, is basically to pick a wall sample, send it to a lab, and they tell you if you have asbestos in your walls.…