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I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house
- mikeweiss 4mo agoWow 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.
- threeio 4mo agohttps://conormclaughlin.net/2024/04/published-how-i-finished-off-my-planes-overhead-app-and-got-it-published-to-the-tidbyt-app-store/ 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
- JKCalhoun 4mo agoI'm sensing "The Conversation" levels of paranoia and it is beautiful.
- voidUpdate 4mo agoTheir repo linked by someone in the comments: https://github.com/cpaczek/skylight https://github.com/cpaczek/skylight
- unzadunza 4mo agoIt's a planeatarium
- ChrisArchitect 4mo agoMaybe this would be a better link: https://skylightceiling.com/ https://skylightceiling.com/ or the repo https://github.com/cpaczek/skylight https://github.com/cpaczek/skylight
- ProllyInfamous 4mo agoI 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.
- ryandrake 4mo agoI'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).
- thenthenthen 4mo agoSuch a fan of the lower power, fanless, larger/‘regular’ connectors old school rapi’s.
- ProllyInfamous 4mo agoThanks 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).
- ryandrake 4mo agoTwo separate USB RTL-SDR dongles. Very important if you do two receivers: Make sure you have an official Raspberry Pi 2b charger that outputs enough wattage. Cheesy bargain bin power supplies you get on Amazon are not up to the task of powering the Pi + 2 radios, and they will not work. Get some good airflow around the radios too, because they can get a bit hot.
- eben-vranken 4mo agoThis is so awesome
- bronlund 4mo agoThat is cool!
- frereubu 4mo ago(To be clear, the "I" in the title is not me, the submitter - it's the title of the Reddit post).
- waltbosz 4mo agoThe 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 running outside to show the real life airplane. The actual projection is neat, but how fun would it be to have an x-ray projection of the night sky.
- notpushkin 4mo ago> The actual projection is neat, but how fun would it be to have an x-ray projection of the night sky. Something like Sega Toys Homestar?
- culopatin 4mo agoI thought the same exact thing and I thought that I would love a sky projection on my ceiling
- jasondigitized 4mo agoThought the same thing. Would be super cool to project the night sky with procedurally generated cellestial objects, planes, spaceships, etc.
- matchstickman23 4mo agoI 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!
- m463 4mo agomaybe during the day use birdnet-pi to project birds.
- evan_ 4mo agoI thought the same thing! The plane being so low made it seem like an exaggerated computer-generated plane.
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- rootusrootus 4mo agoNot too many things make my jaw literally drop, but this did. This is magnificent!
- thenthenthen 4mo agoOof that looks like a loud place to live :O Happy to see it inspiring a project tho take care
- gruntled-worker 4mo agoI expect to have trouble falling asleep just vicariously relating to the noise level there. Awesome project though.
- DoneWithAllThat 4mo agoRandom 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.
- Abh1Works 4mo agoDo you remember the name? Would love to visit it
- DoneWithAllThat 4mo agoNolita Hall! Highly recommended.
- razorson 4mo agoThe fact that I saw this on X first is concerning, greatjob btw
- srean 4mo agoWould have loved a post on working out the geometry of the projection, especially if it accounted for transitions of ceiling to wall. That would be fun. The surface through which one is projecting is a flat rectangle. Had it been a hemispherical dome one wouldn't have had to do anything special for the transitions.
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