Another fun project would be to build your own ADS-B receiver! https://www.adsbexchange.com/ways-to-join-the-exchange/
Not as fun as building your own, but note that you can apply for a free receiver from FR24.
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
#32Off topic but you have my exact name (first and last). I wonder what the chances are on that.
Re: My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar
#33Great 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.
Oh awesome! Great minds indeed :)
Honestly building a toy for my toddler is some of the most fun I've had coding in years, I can't wait for her to get a little older and start articulate her own ideas
Re: My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar
#34I see one issue with this app: the app page clearly says it’s only for 4+ yet your target audience is only 2 :) Nicely done!
I hope to stay under the radar of the app store police :D
Re: My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar
#35Nice! Minor nits:
* It takes me out of the immersion a bit when planes move after having been drawn. It would feel more realistic if the blips were "painted" by the sweep and then static until the next sweep.
* To make it a bit more realistic you could extrapolate from previous data points so each plane would make consistent progress from sweep to sweep.
Re: My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar
#36Another fun project would be to build your own ADS-B receiver! https://www.adsbexchange.com/ways-to-join-the-exchange/
That's quite genius, I wonder whether Apple's I/O and Radio APIs will let me do this on mobile...
Re: My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar
#37Another fun project would be to build your own ADS-B receiver! https://www.adsbexchange.com/ways-to-join-the-exchange/
Not as fun as building your own, but note that you can apply for a free receiver from FR24. https://www.flightradar24.com/apply-for-receiver
That's incredible, whats the catch!?
I reckon if I shelled out for a business plan I could start doing some simple stuff with free tier / extra paid features
Re: My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar
#38Off topic but you have my exact name (first and last). I wonder what the chances are on that.
Us Jacob Bartletts gotta stick together
Re: My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar
#39I swear there are startups that blabber for years before making an MVP.. Jacob was able to build this in a cave, with a box of scraps..
Re: My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar
#40Off topic but you have my exact name (first and last). I wonder what the chances are on that.
numerically, quite low, but given the number of people on the internet, it happens routinely. I'd guess most English speaking people have used for their name and found duplicates So:
guess maybe 100 million English names on the internet, between 2 and 100 matches, so around 1 in 10 million
BTW. I got bored counting the matches for Jacob Bartlett on facebook. definitely more than 10