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Building an aircraft radar system in JavaScript

Charlie Gerard on August 29, 2022

A few years ago, I came across this awesome talk by Thomas Watson in which he talks about how he built AirplaneJS, a web app that picks up ADS-B ra...
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Raí B. Toffoletto

This is awesome!!! Thank you 🎉🎉.

Just to add, on linux you can use lsusb to get the device list, and folks on windows can dig the info in the Devices Manager app.

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Himanshupal0001

You just give ideas to ISIS. 😂

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MO_NASSER

JAJA U THINK THE MODERN DETCTORES DIDN T USE THAT ???


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Himanshupal0001

I said ISIS !!!

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ktsyr1

It's better than these nonsense.

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Ajitkumar Vaghela

amazing 👋

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MO_NASSER

THAT IS AMAZING THANKS FOR THE RESOURCES
GOD BLESS U FROM ISIS HAHA

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Mike Bifulco

This is one of the most striking demos I've ever seen. It's so interesting to think that this information is just flying around the atmosphere above our heads!

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Damien Sedgwick

Sadly the demo does not work for me, it gets caught in a promise. This does however, look super cool!

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Anurag Vohra

Although beyond my current caliber, but thank you as it juts lovely too read this.

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Kyle Stephens

I always take note when you have something to demo, Charlie. It's always remarkable.

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Prabhu

Nice

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Sebastian Anioke

This is amazing !!

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Meat Boy

And that is impressive side project!

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decker

Nice one, thank you for that.

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Oww it's interesting and out of my head i have to learn more about radar and all to understand this process!

but thanks for your efforts to right this detailed information!

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ishan

This is amazing! Thanks for sharing.

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abewartech

You can build ship radar too using AIS data, AIS is not much different from ADS-B

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StormyTalent

Thank you!

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Lucky Victory

This is tremendous, I never knew Web API had USB, I just learned something new.
Kudos to you.👏👏

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BaasMurdo

Awesome project ! Something unexpected and really fresh ! Nice work !

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Gâteau aux fruits

Wow ! so interesting, I'm impressed

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JoelBonetR 🥇

Amazing! Thank you for sharing 😁

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ASC78Berlin

Awesome, really cool.