This Lady Made A DIY TSA-Like Body Scanner [Video]

Jeri Ellsworth probably saw the complete fun the TSA was having with their scanners and decided, ‘hey, maybe I will be able to build my own’. And by hacking a satellite dish to act as her backscatter and centimeter wave scanner, she did.

Jeri lists clear instructions and offers a temporary explainer on how it all works in her video, however it’s still pretty damn complicated. The core of what she’s doing, in step with Hackaday, goes something like this:

[She used] a hacked set of Feed Horns (like from a satellite dish) to create the image. By reversing the facility transistor on one of the crucial Feed Horns, among the horns is made into a transmitter, while one of the vital other horns stays as a receiver. This knowledge is then fed into a FPGA by means of an A2D converter, where an image is assembled when the scanner is moved over a surface. X and Y axis tracking is handled by an optical mouse also controlled by the FPGA, and the complete setup is output to a monitor.

Basically, she’s adopting a concept equivalent to the TSA scanners but building her contraption with less professional parts. This means that although her images aren’t quite as clear as the nudie pics the TSA are jerkin’ to, it’ll do the final trick. In case you’re a certified DIY-man and love to work out digital nakedness, have at it. [ Hackaday via Crunchgear ]

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