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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 jakey_bakey »

0x38B wrote: post #143

Jacob, what a cool project! It was fun to read, which speaks to your writing skills. On my iPhone SE (2020) the scan-line effect is distractingly low res (1), perhaps because of my lower screen resolution? 1: https://nexus.armylane.com/files/RPReplay_Final1701128035.mo...

Hey, thank you for the bug report!

I think I know the culprit, my Shader which is applying the CRT effect shouldn't scale the scanlines with screen size, they should be constant sized - I noticed the same issue when you go to the app switcher.

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

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Post by alberto_ol »

jakey_bakey wrote: post #48
oakmad wrote: post #43

This is great. On my « one day » build list. In a similar vein, my 5yr old son has a flight log book - I started it for him as a baby. Every flight he gives asks one of the crew if the captain wouldn’t mind completing it. It logs route, aircraft and any events that happened. The crew _love_ this kind of thing - we’ve toured cockpits and crew rests and the messages are always gracious. He’s always beaming to get it ba…

That's genius, being invited into the cockpit felt extremely cool even as a grown adult, so I will absolutely get this started next time we get a flight

I thought that after 9/11 passengers were not allowed to visit the cockopit any more

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

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Post by jakey_bakey »

alberth wrote: post #152

Love the simplicity. > ”A Learjet at 40,000 feet shows up the same as an AirBus that just took off at London City Airport, however it’s a lot easier to spot the jumbo jet in the real sky.” When I use FlightRadar24, I actually see different icons for jumbo jets vs Learjets vs prop planes - so they do not show up the same for me. Maybe the author means altitude is not distinguished per this quote: > ”I added some simpl…

I have this addressed in V2: The transponder gives an approximate size class for the aircraft, so I'll be able to scale them better if I use this

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

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Post by jakey_bakey »

_kush wrote: post #180

This is brilliant - thanks for sharing the story. This is one of those ideas that, on the surface, looks really hard to build but your breakdown made it look super easy. Very inspiring :)

Thank you :)

It was probably my easiest ever article to write, since I was simply coding each evening and adding a few cliffnotes, screenshots, and snippets as I went.

When it came to writing, it was just filling in the blanks :)

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

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Post by jakey_bakey »

coolliquidcode wrote: post #100
dramm wrote: post #94

OK very nice, but I had brief hope of a home built primary radar featuring a microwave oven magnetron :-)

Same. Cool project but way less interesting.

Apologies, I hope the title didn't go to far on the clickbaity side

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

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Post by jakey_bakey »

hn_ta456 wrote: post #96

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…

Very reasonable point to be fair, and I agree with you. I certainly would not be comfortable building something for a kid to stare at that had no relation to the real world

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

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Post by jakey_bakey »

gregorvand wrote: post #172

Funny, I just re-watched the Gener8 DD pitch yesterday coincidentally and checked out where you guys were at since then. Great write up! Just need to upgrade my iPad OS to give it a spin

That's awesome! Any feedback on the apps are welcome
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