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Silent-alert (St-Evenxiii)ECADConfidence: Medium

An ESP32 radar presence alarm. The firmware "never registered a target" because the parser read byte 7 of each LD2410C frame for the data type, and that byte is always 0xAA, so every frame was thrown away. On the hardware side the BOM CSVs had to be "synced with the netlists (J4 is 3-pin, J7 charge input was missing)", and footprint names with commas split across columns. Two generator scripts "would overwrite the real KiCad files with empty ones" and were deleted.

Impact Analysis

Persona
Electrical Engineer
Team Size Impact
5x Multiplier
Prototype Delay
3 Days
Est. Annual Cost
$30,000
  • 1 user · 1 month240 min
  • Rest of team960 min
  • Rest of year13,200 min

monthly_minutes × 12 × team_multiplier ÷ 60 × $75/hr = $30k/yr

$75/hr assumed rate.

Annual team-minutes decomposed from the reported monthly inputs.

Evidence & Sources

1 Sources

Analyst Notes

From the Grok pain-radar digests, Nov 2 2026 (Nov 2 8:41 AM ET through Nov 2 10:41 PM ET digests plus the Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-11-03: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.