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In this project, we will be using the conventional police method <strong>of</strong> pointing the camera <strong>and</strong> radar<br />

gun down the road. As you can see from the diagram, police radar can detect vehicle speeds<br />

when the vehicle is up to a mile away. The radar units we used in this project have a range from<br />

100 ft. to ⅛ mile.<br />

Problems with the Mattel <strong>Speed</strong> gun<br />

When the Mattel Toy’s speed gun was taken out <strong>of</strong> it’s housing (fig. 19, Ref. 5); we<br />

discovered the following problems:<br />

Fig. 19 Inside <strong>of</strong> Mattel Radar Gun Fig. 20 Radar Gun Circuit Board<br />

1. The circuit board was a double layered board (fig. 20, Ref. 5)<br />

2. The circuit contained an embedded ATmega88 microcomputer<br />

3. The source code on the microprocessor was locked<br />

4. The locks could be removed only by erasing the entire code<br />

5. Even though the ATmega88 has UART pins, we doubted the code was written to address<br />

them.<br />

6. A search <strong>of</strong> the Internet revealed only one partial circuit diagram which was <strong>of</strong> little help.<br />

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