Do you want to build your own FlightAware PiAware ADS-B Ground Station?
Posted on 08/27/2015 6:49:38 PM PDT by markomalley
It’s pretty amazing. I have one here at the house that I use for ham radio projects, and I use them at work (I’m an electronics and RF engineer) to quickly prototype stuff, without having to build a circuit board first.
>>> What are you running for an OS? <<<
Something called ‘Raspbian’ that’s a specific version of Debian which is some kind of Unix stuff.
I’m an old DOS guy who used to program in Q-BASIC and MASM before Windows, and this is my first sortie into the Unix world so I don’t know diddly about it. Just that there are upgrades about once a week...
The native programming language is Python but I haven’t put any effort into working with it.
Very popular with the emulation crowd as well.
You can run gameboy, nintendo, genesis, etc emulators on it.
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That was kind of a half-assed answer. I’ve been up since 3 am and I’m kind of crashing at the moment.
There are multiple systems available for Pi at least one of which (that I can’t think of the name of) is intended for operating audio-visual systems that might be what you need for your application.
Start at the Raspberry Pi website and then go from there. I’m pretty sure someone has already done something similar that might get you off to a good start.
Yes indeed. I put tiny Linux on on of those itune devices with Doom installed. I could play the game by rolling the round touchpad. Very minimalist, but lot of fun!
Radio Shack stores (what stores are left) have a “maker” section with Raspberry Pi, Arduino, etc. You can see lots of clever applications at Maker Faires and in http://www.makershed.com/.
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Yeah, I would be similar to an industrial controller, but the final product I’m thinking of is more along the lines of home entertainment. This is just the guts of the final things I’m thinking of, there are some other parts involved too.
Anyway, it should be fun to play around with even if I can’t get the thing to work, I figure.
Yeah, I would be similar to an industrial controller, but the final product I’m thinking of is more along the lines of home entertainment. This is just the guts of the final things I’m thinking of, there are some other parts involved too.
Anyway, it should be fun to play around with even if I can’t get the thing to work, I figure.
I know that RaspPi can run gentoo, and even under Raspberian, the services that I have in mind are considered "basics."
“It better be made w/ Wild Maine Blueberries!”
+1!
I've never messed with one, but I've got a project i've been thinking of trying to do using one.
Do you know if it has drivers to read the data stream from a USB camera?
Do you want to build your own FlightAware PiAware ADS-B Ground Station?
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Don't want to burst your innovation/entrepreneurial bubble but that's done everyday using Pi and others in the world of R/C, especially multirotors with gimbals.
Raspberry Pi
The kind you find at a second-hand store...
Raspberry Pi 2. Lotsa fun. Add the camera module and install VLC, and instant live streaming video (set it up to watch the hummingbirds). Might do some Christmas light animation. Got one for brother’s kid - he got excited about the Python possibilities; he’s having a fun summer with it.
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