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
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.
