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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.
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You'll get the business tier plans on the commercial sites for free, and you'll feed the community exchanges.
You'll also be getting the data directly, so they aren't censored, and don't rely on the internet.
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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...
This is great! Small detail question: Did CRT radar scopes really have scan lines? I would have guessed they were vector displays. Re. list of extra features: Since the app targets planespotting, it would be cool to show aircraft type, maybe for a few seconds after you tap a blip.
The phosphor afterglow made it so that stronger radar returns remained on the screen for a bit. If the radar made more than a revolution in that time, you'd see the same airplane as a new dot ("plot") that had moved a bit. You could use a felt tip pen to mark the plots as "tracks" on the screen.
There were also special radar screens with a movie camera pointed at them, where hours of radar returns could be recorded for later playback.
For instance this sped up recording of Warsaw Pact planes during the 1968 revolution in Czechoslovakia: https://youtu.be/rAUodXI4LPw?t=622
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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.
The title of the the piece/submission would be well served by calling it a simulated radar. I, like I suspect many others, clicked on it because I was honestly intrigued by the concept of some sort of homebrew radar. Setting that bar and then seeing that it's some API results plotted on a simulated radar screen is a bit of a letdown.
Submission is clickbait. It's a cool project, sounds like fun and I'm sure their kid likes it, but the root post is not wrong.
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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!
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
what children truly want, need, and enjoy, is interaction with adults, and the less augmented the reality of the human contact, the real-er it is. build something that doesn't work so well with them, rather than off the shelf something perfect.
If anyone is interested, you can build your own adsb receiver for very cheap (under 50$), and you can forward the data to all the platforms - ADSB-exchange, airplanes.live, flightradar, flightaware, etc. You'll get the business tier plans on the commercial sites for free, and you'll feed the community exchanges. You'll also be getting the data directly, so they aren't censored, and don't rely on the internet.
(no hate to OpenSky though they were very nice and clear to me when I emailed them)
That's super wholesome. Congrats on app and plane-curious kid