Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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🔗 *The full guide* : _https://core-electronics.com.au/guides/raspberry-pi-pico/how-to-add-mmwave-radar-to-a-pico-to-detect-and-track-humans/_

In this video, we will be learning how to use the *Rd-03D 24 Ghz mmWave radar* sensor to *detect and track humans* with a *Raspberry Pi Pico.* We will be learning how the sensor works, how to connect it to your Pico, looking at a library to use it, and we will have some fun with it by drawing some radar visualisations and creating a human speedometer!

🔧🔨🧰 Hardware featured in this guide:
*Rd-03D sensor:*
_https://core-electronics.com.au/catalog/product/view/sku/CE10172 _
*Picos:*
_https://core-electronics.com.au/raspberry-pi/pico.html#category_2118_

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0:00 How the Sensor Works
2:42 What You Will Need
3:05 Connecting it to the Pico
4:06 Using the Library and Getting Readings
8:17 Visualising it with Processing IDE
10:35 Human Speedometer Project

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