[lloydpick]

2 Pis for dealing with ADS-B (airplane data), one for 1090Mhz, the other for 978Mhz. I could run that on the same one, but seemed easier to just split them up given some of the software is a bit picky with device IDs. The 978Mhz is much quieter than the 1090Mhz, so I also run a private SpyServer (https://github.com/lloydpick/docker-spyserver) for listening to radio transmissions.

1 Raspberry Pi for a running a very stupid sitcom sound thing. Using a camera it tries to recognise who you are, then play a random sound assigned to you out of a little speaker. Think of like the cheering/clapping when a guest or celebrity enters the room in a sitcom tv show, and replace out the clapping with whatever sound you want.

[princekolt]

This reminds me of this project I saw on twitter a while ago where a small arduino with a motion sensor would play the Seinfeld bass riff every time someone entered a room.

[bardonadam]

Love the sitcom sound thing!

[bigiain]

Me too. I've always though I and my friends should all have individual theme songs that play when they enter the room. Now I have another weekend project...

[mindcrime]

What do you use for receiving the radio traffice, something like an RTL-SDR, or something else?

[lloydpick]

For the ASD-B traffic I use the FlightAware USB dongles - https://flightaware.com/adsb/prostick/

And for the general radio, I use the RTL-SDR Blog USB dongle - https://www.amazon.com/RTL-SDR-Blog-RTL2832U-Software-Telesc...

[samirm]

Why do you listen to all these radio transmissions?

[lloydpick]

For the airplane data, I always liked browsing sites like flightradar24, planefinder etc, and wondered how they aggregated the data, and it sort of just went from there. I also now send the ADS-B data to open projects rather than commercial only entities.

In terms of the random radio transmissions, it was simply because I was already installing the two ADS-B antennas in my attic, and thought I might as well just put up the standard telescopic antenna that came with the USB receivers as well. I'm a newbie in terms of radio, so it's just been interesting scanning the bands to see what you can find and listen to.

A future project I have is to try and pick up the 443Mhz transmission from a really simple weather/temperature sensor I got from Walmart a while ago, since apparently that's what it uses to talk to the little base station it came with.

[decko]

I'm only familiar with the commerical ones (flightaware etc.). What are some of the open ones?

[lloydpick]

https://www.adsbexchange.com http://www.adsbhub.org/ https://opensky-network.org/