An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
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An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
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Re: An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
#2Looks pretty cool, though kinda "cheating" by pulling from adsb.fi - though I think you'd need something a lot more powerful than an ESP32 to receive and decode ADS-B ;)
Re: An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
#3Looks pretty cool, though kinda "cheating" by pulling from adsb.fi - though I think you'd need something a lot more powerful than an ESP32 to receive and decode ADS-B ;)
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Re: An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
#4Looks pretty cool, though kinda "cheating" by pulling from adsb.fi - though I think you'd need something a lot more powerful than an ESP32 to receive and decode ADS-B ;)
I would actually expect the math to decode ads-b traffic is substantially less complex than, for example, a TLS connection.
Re: An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
#5Well, a radar-like display, then. But not a radar.
Re: An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
#6Looks pretty cool, though kinda "cheating" by pulling from adsb.fi - though I think you'd need something a lot more powerful than an ESP32 to receive and decode ADS-B ;)
Using ADS-B and calling it a "radar" feels wrong to me.
(But is is a cool project)
Re: An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
#7radar *display*
making esp32-based radar emitter would've been cool, tho
Re: An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
#8Looks pretty cool, though kinda "cheating" by pulling from adsb.fi - though I think you'd need something a lot more powerful than an ESP32 to receive and decode ADS-B ;)
Actually possible to receive and decode ADS-B on ESP32, but MLAT is failing (tried hard but not found a trick yet).
Biggest problem isn’t that it’s not powerful enough, but the USB port bandwidth don’t match most SDR.
Using some clever tricks you can receive parts of the message on a slower USB and be able to decode ADS-B
Re: An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
#9Looks pretty cool, though kinda "cheating" by pulling from adsb.fi - though I think you'd need something a lot more powerful than an ESP32 to receive and decode ADS-B ;)
Using ADS-B and calling it a "radar" feels wrong to me. (But is is a cool project)
Agreed, and even SSR always felt like cheating imo. I wanna see someone build a primary radar on an esp 32.
Re: An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
#10Looks pretty cool, though kinda "cheating" by pulling from adsb.fi - though I think you'd need something a lot more powerful than an ESP32 to receive and decode ADS-B ;)
You could fit a pi zero and rtl in an enclosure not much larger than the one they’ve printed.