Adam Conway writes about constructing a custom aircraft radar using an ESP32-S3 powered WT32-SC01 Plus display. The device fetches live flight data from ADS-B networks to show real-time positions, altitudes, and routes on a 3.5-inch touchscreen interface. To maintain smooth visuals despite five-second data updates, the system uses dead reckoning to predict aircraft movement between polls.
- Employs an 8-bit parallel bus for high bandwidth display rendering
- Uses Douglas-Peucker simplification to compress coastline data into limited flash memory
- Incorporates emergency squawk code detection with visual warnings
- Manages real-time flight information via the adsb.fi and adsbdb APIs
- Employs an 8-bit parallel bus for high bandwidth display rendering
- Uses Douglas-Peucker simplification to compress coastline data into limited flash memory
- Incorporates emergency squawk code detection with visual warnings
- Manages real-time flight information via the adsb.fi and adsbdb APIs
A curated collection of tools, projects, Docker images, and resources related to Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) technology.
* Documentation and quickstart guides for reception and decoding
* Various aggregators including open-source, community-driven, non-profit, and commercial services
* Software tools for decoding, feeding, visualization, mobile apps, and social notifications
* Hardware components such as single-board computers (SBC), receivers, filters, and antennas
* Documentation and quickstart guides for reception and decoding
* Various aggregators including open-source, community-driven, non-profit, and commercial services
* Software tools for decoding, feeding, visualization, mobile apps, and social notifications
* Hardware components such as single-board computers (SBC), receivers, filters, and antennas
ADS-B Flight Tracker running on balena with support for FlightAware, Flightradar24, Plane Finder, OpenSky Network, AirNav Radar, ADSB Exchange, Wingbits, adsb.fi, ADSB.lol, ADS-B One, airplanes.live, Planespotters.net, TheAirTraffic, AvDelphi, HP Radar, Fly Italy ADSB and plane.watch.
Contribute to the flight tracking community! Feed your local ADS-B data from an RTL-SDR USB dongle (or various other radio types) and a supported device (see below) running balenaOS to the tracking services FlightAware, Flightradar24, Plane Finder, OpenSky Network, AirNav Radar, ADSB Exchange, Wingbits, adsb.fi, ADSB.lol, ADS-B One, airplanes.live, Planespotters.net, TheAirTraffic, AvDelphi, HP Radar, Fly Italy ADSB and plane.watch. In return, you can receive complimentary premium accounts (or cryptocurrency tokens) worth several hundred dollars annually!
Contribute to the flight tracking community! Feed your local ADS-B data from an RTL-SDR USB dongle (or various other radio types) and a supported device (see below) running balenaOS to the tracking services FlightAware, Flightradar24, Plane Finder, OpenSky Network, AirNav Radar, ADSB Exchange, Wingbits, adsb.fi, ADSB.lol, ADS-B One, airplanes.live, Planespotters.net, TheAirTraffic, AvDelphi, HP Radar, Fly Italy ADSB and plane.watch. In return, you can receive complimentary premium accounts (or cryptocurrency tokens) worth several hundred dollars annually!
This software takes a dump1090 stream of ADS-B messages and plops them into a sqlite database with a timestamp.
This page details the ADS-B emitter categories as defined by DO-260B standard, used to classify aircraft and other airborne objects.
Easy‑to‑use turn‑key SD‑card image for popular single‑board computers (Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, NanoPi, Odroid, etc.) that runs a complete ADS‑B/SDR feeder, supporting ADS‑B, ACARS, AIS and weather‑sonde data aggregation.
