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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 beembeem »

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/

Mine serves as a fun party trick. I never built this out but I always wanted to build a little display that shows the overhead plane's src/dest, speed, and altitude using the antenna.

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

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Post by RockRobotRock »

victor106 wrote: post #89

> Which begs the question, why can’t Google Maps ever work out which direction I am facing? I always wondered this as well. Apple Maps seems to be much better at this

When I was in Tokyo I noticed that the compass was completely useless. Too much EMI?

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

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Post by hn_ta456 »

Love the design, but super uncomfortable with giving phones to toddlers as toys. For mine, the longer I can put it off the better. There are enough infants bumbling around the world already glued to screens, in imitation of their zombie parents (this is a general observation, not levelled at OP). For the inevitable “but kids need to learn how to use phones as tools” - tools for what? They are designed to consume you and your attention. I also don’t regard the ability to halt a conversation while you ‘look something up’ as a benefit.

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Post by 4ndrewl »

idatum wrote: post #85

I wrote a simple program that connects to (default) port 30003 on dump1090-fa (Flightaware version). It parses the ADS-B output and uses Flightaware's AeroAPI (there is a free tier based on requests) to augment with airline, aircraft, and city departure information. I then publish to my MQTT (Mosquitto) broker for planes within 2.1 nautical miles (i.e. I can visually make them out). An MQTT client on an RPi3 (Linux)…

I did this too! - and built out an Alexa skill so I could ask 'where's that plane flying to'

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

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Post by 4ndrewl »

filterfiber wrote: post #51
trackone wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Heads up - IIRC ADSB-exchange was sold out, an alternative might be adsb.fi Regardless you can send your ADS-B data to all of them - ADSB-exchange, adsb.fi, flightradar, flightaware, etc. That way you get all of the benefits and contribute community data.

aiui there was some kerfuffle over adsb.fi DNS ownership - I think https://airplanes.live is where the OSS community gravitated.
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