A thought experiment leapt to mind on how one would triangulate (septangulate!) your location based on heading, time, flight information, and their intersections. I suppose you could get within a 100 meters? Very cool photos!
When I lived in Macau a while back, I used to listen to the Hong Kong Airport tower on my SDR and try to link it to flight data, but at the time (2011/2012 or so)my connection and the data was not that great, but I could see and hear who was taking off and landing.
I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
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#92Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#93Hi! 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.
You're the kind of hacker I would love to work with some day.
This is seriously one of the most fun and inventive projects I've seen. Such ingenuity at every stage of this pipeline. I didn't even realize they made cameras like this.
Bravo! Please keep it up!
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#94I am not trying to be negative about what seems like Ana amazing project but I am genuinely curious: why? Is it the cool factor of being able to identify aircraft out of the sky with a camera? Being able to show the photos to someone (who?)? Asserting your rights to capture this data? Why would someone want to do this?
The way you wanted to phrase that question is, "Cool! Was there any other reason you wanted to build this beyond the technical challenge of it?" Otherwise it sounds like you're saying, "You need to get laid more, bro."
This question is also handy at hackathons. Sometimes you get an answer like, "nope", other times you get anti-government screeds, sometimes dreams of saving the world once they've scaled up.
Personally, I find it better not to ask and to just enjoy the hack.
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#95What is the utility of the project? Any use cases?
Fun, if you can believe it.
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#96What is the utility of the project? Any use cases?
+1 to this question. I am interested to learn about use cases that go beyond satiating one's own desire to identify the plane.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you filtering out military planes?
There's no reason to if they are flying with ADS-B transmitting. They're broadcasting their position and will usually appear on FR24 etc. If they are flying without ADS-B (which is legal for the military when needed) they won't be picked up by this system so no filtering needed.
According to [1] it’s not just the military, but “U.S. federal, state and local government aircraft performing sensitive operations”
https://www.aviationtoday.com/2019/07/23/new-rule-allows-mil...
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#98I am not trying to be negative about what seems like Ana amazing project but I am genuinely curious: why? Is it the cool factor of being able to identify aircraft out of the sky with a camera? Being able to show the photos to someone (who?)? Asserting your rights to capture this data? Why would someone want to do this?
The way you wanted to phrase that question is, "Cool! Was there any other reason you wanted to build this beyond the technical challenge of it?" Otherwise it sounds like you're saying, "You need to get laid more, bro." This question is also handy at hackathons. Sometimes you get an answer like, "nope", other times you get anti-government screeds, sometimes dreams of saving the world once they've scaled up. Personally…
The reason I asked is because I have a unique opportunity to do the same where I live but I want to know if there is any utility in it other than the build itself and the learning experience, and if so, what it is. This reminds me of the thing that takes photos of the ISS every time it flies overhead, except I get no understanding of why someone wouldn’t just use the many many high resolution photos of it from much more up close or the publicly available data. But let’s say that it turned out that every time it passes by you could use your decoder ring to get another piece of a neat message then I would get into it for my kids’ sake.
Re: I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
#99Hi! 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.
So you snap a picture of the sky based on the adsb data? Is there any delay you have to work with?
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#100I've been thinking about building a laser graphics system to write on clouds on nights when there are stratus clouds.
I'm worried about lasing an airplane (I am not too close to the airport but not that far either) and was thinking about hooking up an ADS-B receiver to tell the system to keep the beam away from airplanes, even if they are on the other side of the cloud deck.
A system like that, funny enough, is supposed to get approval from the FDA (Food & Drug Administration) because the FDA regulates lasers. If aircraft are involved the FDA asks the FAA what they think about it. I'd hope that they think that protective system would be good enough.