What is the utility of the project? Any use cases?
Looking at the planes that fly over your house? Seriously, I am interested in this and do it already "manually" when I can. What more reason do you need?
I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
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Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#52Hi! I am the guy behind this, awesome to see it posted here. Happy to answer any questions. To answer a question I saw pop up, I am using the FAA aircraft registration data to pull up the extra information about the planes. It lists who actually owns the plane, vs who is operating it. That is why you see so many banks. Places like Flightaware have much better data, but a pricy to look up.
since it got hugged to death by HN can you post some pics?
I just upgraded the App Service plan I was using... It should be back now for a bit.
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#53Hi! I am the guy behind this, awesome to see it posted here. Happy to answer any questions. To answer a question I saw pop up, I am using the FAA aircraft registration data to pull up the extra information about the planes. It lists who actually owns the plane, vs who is operating it. That is why you see so many banks. Places like Flightaware have much better data, but a pricy to look up.
What did that camera set you back (or did you get it some other way)? Their page only says "Call for pricing", which usually means it's going to be outside my hobby budget hah.
I managed to get it for $500 on ebay... but I just checked and it looks like similar ones are around $1000 now, so I guess I got lucky. An Axis PTZ dome camera turned upside down works great too though and there are a lot of those available on Ebay.
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#54Feels like the website-about page: http://skybot.cam/about is a much better link than a tweet.. loaded with details. For example: - Most planes are passing at over 30,000' - It's using a Costar RISE 4260 camera /w built in heater - It leverages SkyScan by IQT labs[0] - It leverages Azure custom vision API[1] [0]: https://github.com/IQTLabs/SkyScan [1]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
Unfortunately no HTTPS on the website
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#55Hi! I am the guy behind this, awesome to see it posted here. Happy to answer any questions. To answer a question I saw pop up, I am using the FAA aircraft registration data to pull up the extra information about the planes. It lists who actually owns the plane, vs who is operating it. That is why you see so many banks. Places like Flightaware have much better data, but a pricy to look up.
I had this exact idea and have been working on it. Have almost exactly your bill of materials. Glad to know there are others out there who find this interesting, great work!
I was always worried about making it a public data source. Kinda seems like it could be potentially dangerous, but that’s completely paranoid speculation. Thanks for sharing!
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#56Hi! I am the guy behind this, awesome to see it posted here. Happy to answer any questions. To answer a question I saw pop up, I am using the FAA aircraft registration data to pull up the extra information about the planes. It lists who actually owns the plane, vs who is operating it. That is why you see so many banks. Places like Flightaware have much better data, but a pricy to look up.
I had this exact idea and have been working on it. Have almost exactly your bill of materials. Glad to know there are others out there who find this interesting, great work! I was always worried about making it a public data source. Kinda seems like it could be potentially dangerous, but that’s completely paranoid speculation. Thanks for sharing!
I should clarify that I’m mostly guessing on your bill of materials. There are only a few obvious choices for this project.
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#57Hi! I am the guy behind this, awesome to see it posted here. Happy to answer any questions. To answer a question I saw pop up, I am using the FAA aircraft registration data to pull up the extra information about the planes. It lists who actually owns the plane, vs who is operating it. That is why you see so many banks. Places like Flightaware have much better data, but a pricy to look up.
FYI if you were able to set this up, it would be trivial for you to share your ADS-B feed with Flightradar24[1]. This would give you a free business plan[2] for as long as you share, which would get you access to that data.
[1]https://www.flightradar24.com/build-your-own
[2]https://www.flightradar24.com/premium
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you set up an ADB, Flight Aware will give you an Enterprise account. FlightRadar24 also will give you a Business account. There is a docker image out there that will let you pump data to both services.
Oops, just posted the same thing, you beat me to it, good looking out =) Can you please share more details on that docker image setup?
Hah, you both beat me too it and I didn't realize until I posted the comment. Cheers