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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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True, but it even looks more like a radar than Flightradar's radar. Cool tool for a small kid to have.

I don't know, phones are addicting and getting a toddler hooked seems like a disservice. There's so many educational things the author could be giving their toddler and they're teaching them to have their eyes glued to their screen from such a young age...

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

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I occasionally get large military transport planes that buzz my rural area at very low altitudes, often below my house in a canyon just a 3 iron away. I suppose they're training. The roar is epic. It'd be nice to get a little notification when that's about to happen. Not enough to write my own app for it though. Kudos for the hustle.

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

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post #15

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True, but it even looks more like a radar than Flightradar's radar. Cool tool for a small kid to have.

I don't know, phones are addicting and getting a toddler hooked seems like a disservice. There's so many educational things the author could be giving their toddler and they're teaching them to have their eyes glued to their screen from such a young age...

> I don't know, phones are addicting and getting a toddler hooked seems like a disservice.

Phones are not addicting. Algorithmically manipulated services are addicting.

> There's so many educational things the author could be giving their toddler and they're teaching them to have their eyes glued to their screen from such a young age...

Like how to use one's skills and passions to develop a product for their beloved child?

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

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This is cool in concept, but FlightRadar24 has a built-in Augmented Reality feature that works really well.

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/show-us-your-best-augment...

Also, if I were to build my own local copy, I'd use an RTLSDR to get the ADSB packets direct and base my app on tar1090. https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090

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

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Great minds… I published something very similar (albeit less advanced) that also went viral on HN back in September: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37379801

Mine is a webapp 80% generated by GPT that makes a sound when a plane enters a certain radius around the user’s location.

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