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Handheld Raspberry Pi flight tracker for a young plane-spotter: live map, plane photos and routes, a logbook, ADS-B antenna fallback and a 3D-printed case
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GITHUB · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 73 upvotes (top 50%) · 0 views
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The Raspberry Pi software (ADS-B decoding, a live map, photo and route lookups, and a logbook) is vibe-codeable, but the handheld hardware, antenna, and 3D-printed case require physical build skills.
What it would actually take: The software is a Python or Node app on a Pi that decodes ADS-B from dump1090 or readsb, pulls aircraft metadata and photos from public APIs, and renders a map on a small display. The hardware needs an RTL-SDR or ADS-B receiver, a battery, a small screen, and a CAD-designed enclosure, which a hobbyist can assemble with a 3D printer and basic electronics skills.
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Attention rank: #308 of 667 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 368 days after the earliest competitor.
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