Marcus Müller on Nostr: considering microwave ovens came from radar microwave tubes back when these were ...

considering microwave ovens came from radar microwave tubes back when these were military controlled equipment, I'm afraid it wouldn't be the first to be export controlled, but since they predate ITAR, that might work.

But yeah, having a steerable beam (or rather, controllable resonance pattern) would be pretty neat. It'd need quite a few RX antennas on the inner surface of the oven cavity to sample the state of the standing wave inside, and then substantial compute to …