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Re: I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house

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Post by evan_ »

waltbosz wrote: post #11

The repo subtitle is `Project the aircraft passing overhead onto your ceiling, in real time — an X-ray through the roof.` The demo video starts outside pointing at a cloudy sky with an airplane passing overhead. My mind, seeded with the word "x-ray", thought the outside shot was the video projection on his ceiling. I thought his rain gutters were crown molding, and when the camera man runs inside, I thought he was ru…

I thought the same thing! The plane being so low made it seem like an exaggerated computer-generated plane.

Re: I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house

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Post by threeio »

mikeweiss wrote: post #2

Wow so cool! I had daydreamed about doing something similar with e-ink display on my wall so I could see details about whatever plane I'm hearing.. but this blows that out of the water.

https://conormclaughlin.net/2024/04/published-how-i-finished...

I have used this on my tidbyt (now a Tronbyt) for years for this purpose... simple solution tied into my adsb system

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Post by theturtle »

ProllyInfamous wrote: post #7

I bought several 3b+ Raspberries a really long time ago and this seems like the perfect simple&breathtaking project for such ancient hardware. Who needs a fourth PiHole on their local network?! "Fortunately" I live directly beneath CHA's main landingstrip, so lots of regular data available. Fortunately, I am not in the main takeoff path because that would be much worse .

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Re: I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house

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Post by Abh1Works »

DoneWithAllThat wrote: post #23

Random aside: there’s a restaurant in San Diego on the SAN flight path with a split flap display over the bar. Every time a flight passes over it updates to show flight number and departure airport. It’s quite neat.

Do you remember the name? Would love to visit it

Re: I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house

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Post by matchstickman23 »

jasondigitized wrote: post #17
waltbosz wrote: post #11

The repo subtitle is `Project the aircraft passing overhead onto your ceiling, in real time — an X-ray through the roof.` The demo video starts outside pointing at a cloudy sky with an airplane passing overhead. My mind, seeded with the word "x-ray", thought the outside shot was the video projection on his ceiling. I thought his rain gutters were crown molding, and when the camera man runs inside, I thought he was ru…

Thought the same thing. Would be super cool to project the night sky with procedurally generated cellestial objects, planes, spaceships, etc.

I can't imagine it would take too much to pull that sort of real information, no? Like, what celestial objects are overhead, constellations, satellites, etc

EDIT: OH! Looks like it's already configured for that!

Re: I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house

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Post by ianburrell »

ProllyInfamous wrote: post #7

I bought several 3b+ Raspberries a really long time ago and this seems like the perfect simple&breathtaking project for such ancient hardware. Who needs a fourth PiHole on their local network?! "Fortunately" I live directly beneath CHA's main landingstrip, so lots of regular data available. Fortunately, I am not in the main takeoff path because that would be much worse .

Unlike models with lots of memory, the Pi3 1GB and Pi4 1GB are still cheap, but the Pi4 1GB is sold out everywhere. I think the Pi4 is sweet spot for small projects.

Re: I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

ianburrell wrote: post #28
ProllyInfamous wrote: post #7

I bought several 3b+ Raspberries a really long time ago and this seems like the perfect simple&breathtaking project for such ancient hardware. Who needs a fourth PiHole on their local network?! "Fortunately" I live directly beneath CHA's main landingstrip, so lots of regular data available. Fortunately, I am not in the main takeoff path because that would be much worse .

Unlike models with lots of memory, the Pi3 1GB and Pi4 1GB are still cheap, but the Pi4 1GB is sold out everywhere. I think the Pi4 is sweet spot for small projects.

I have many varieties of Pi, but my favorite (overall) is the Pi400 (mine has 4gb, but that built-in keyboard!). The 3b+ is great for one-task projects that don't need [much/any] local input.

Re: I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

ryandrake wrote: post #15
ProllyInfamous wrote: post #7

I bought several 3b+ Raspberries a really long time ago and this seems like the perfect simple&breathtaking project for such ancient hardware. Who needs a fourth PiHole on their local network?! "Fortunately" I live directly beneath CHA's main landingstrip, so lots of regular data available. Fortunately, I am not in the main takeoff path because that would be much worse .

I've got a Raspberry Pi 2b I've been using for probably close to a decade, with two SDRs hanging off it, pulling aircraft ADS-B locations and VHF radio transmissions out of the sky. It's a great application for this platform. ADS-B scanner averages about 25% CPU and the VHF airband receiver averages about 17% (uses hardware FFT).

Thanks for the percentages – let's me know that a PiHole can co-pilot as an SDR tracker. Which do you use (via USB, I suspect..)?

I'mma slap a cheap LCD on (instead of projecting onto ceiling) and make it look like the arrival screen you'd see behind an airport kiosk (and broadcast the VHF/tower). This is a perfect front porch project (to encourage neighborhood curiosities).

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