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My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar

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Re: My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar

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Post by ghewgill »

sertbdfgbnfgsd wrote: post #8

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What he has done is awesome. Yes, I misunderstood the title at first too, but that was more than made up by the care and attention put into building this app. Building things for your own kids just for the fun of it is what parents do.

Stop dunking on people having fun.

Re: My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar

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Post by cbhl »

m4tthumphrey wrote: post #9

Slightly off topic: I went to download this and it said I needed iOS17. Out of pure curiosity what from iOS17 does it need? Apologies if it’s mentioned in the article, I just skipped ahead to final product.

It is mentioned in the article -- the app uses new APIs in iOS 17 for map annotations.

Re: My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar

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Post by jashanno »

gattr wrote: post #3
SteveNuts wrote: post #2

Another fun project would be to build your own ADS-B receiver! https://www.adsbexchange.com/ways-to-join-the-exchange/

Just a few weeks ago I got interested in this as well ("where does FR24 get its data from?"). I ended up buying a cheap RTL-SDR dongle (R820T2) and a small outdoor antenna. I run the free dump1090 tool (I'm on Fedora) to decode ADS-B messages, then my own simple "radar-like" visualization program ([1]) connects to dump1090's network socket to receive decoded data (SBS1 textual format). Even with the antenna just sitt…

I have done the same thing in C# and ArcGIS maps.

I'm going to test it out in an airplane. My map is dynamic, doesn't have to be stationary, and works offline.

Re: My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar

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Post by qwertox »

trackone wrote: post #6
gattr wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a few weeks ago I got interested in this as well ("where does FR24 get its data from?"). I ended up buying a cheap RTL-SDR dongle (R820T2) and a small outdoor antenna. I run the free dump1090 tool (I'm on Fedora) to decode ADS-B messages, then my own simple "radar-like" visualization program ([1]) connects to dump1090's network socket to receive decoded data (SBS1 textual format). Even with the antenna just sitt…

I don't have any experience with it myself, but you can provide your ADS-B data to ADS-B exchange. https://www.adsbexchange.com/ways-to-join-the-exchange/

If you share your data with these sites, they usually give you premium access for free.

https://www.flightradar24.com/premium

I share ADS-B data, how do I activate my free Business plan subscription?

Please sign up for a free Basic account using the following link using the same email address with which you registered your feed. Once your feed is live, your complimentary Business subscription will be activated.

Re: My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar

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Post by runjake »

HumblyTossed wrote: post #12
sertbdfgbnfgsd wrote: post #8

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Are you human?

This is probably an alt account for jocaal who posted a nearly-identical, unuseful comment and then deleted it. Then this one magically appeared right after, to again point out what's already obvious to the rest of us.

Nonetheless, a great little project that inspires wonder in a kid!

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