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24 alternatives to We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker
I grew frustrated with closed source ADS-B receivers a few years ago, and wanted to build a true low cost embedded ADS-B receiver from scratch for low power applications. I ended up developing a custom radio frontend that uses RP2040 PIO for Mode S preamble detection and demodulation, and also released the first open soruce implementation of UAT decoding on an RF MCU from TI (which works somewhat beyond the publicly stated specs for the chip). Today, ADSBee is a fully featured dual-band ADS-B receiver, with Mode S, ADSB, UAT ADSB, UAT TIS-B / FIS-B, a ton of configurable reporting…
The ADSBee 1421 is an open-source dual-band ADS-B receiver module designed to detect aircraft signals. Made by Pants for Birds, it represents a miniaturized version of their existing receiver technology using a new… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi everyone! Shortly after publishing my iOS 4 jailbreak last October[1], I got to work on my next hobby project: a from-scratch homebrew GPS receiver, which can solve the user’s location solely from billions of radio antenna samples. I took a commodity SDR (alongside the Python standard library and numpy) and built a signal processing pipeline that can detect and track GPS satellites over many minutes, drop and pick up satellites as they come in and out of view, and precisely determine the user’s position and clock inaccuracy. All told, gypsum can go from a cold start to a fix on the user’s…
2024 · axleos.com · its alternatives →
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Hello, I'd like to share a 3D plane tracking web app that I developed called: skies-adsb. Living near KMIA (a very busy airport), I spend a lot of time plane spotting and thought it would be cool to track planes in 3D. In October 2021, I built a prototype 3D ADS-B flight tracker called skies-adsb using p5.js. In April 2022, I released version 1.0 of skies-adsb, rewritten in Three.js. However, this release still relied on manual editing of GeoJSON layers. By late 2024, I had learned enough about GIS and GeoPandas to automate map creation using custom GeoJSON layers. During the Christmas…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ADS-B visualizer▲339I've created a web app for querying and visualization of ADS-B datasets: https://adsb.exposed/ Source code: https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/ The results significantly exceeded my expectations because the pictures are insanely beautiful, and the data is a treasure trove. It proves many statements that were not certain: - it is feasible to generate tiles by aggregation on a pixel level (instead of hexagons or rectangular grid); - it does not require JPG/PNG tiles - we can transfer raw bitmap data with zstd compression; - it is possible to…
2024 · adsb.exposed · its alternatives →
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This project is an RF Signal Scanner built using an ESP32, AD8317 RF detector, and various other components. It's designed to detect and measure RF signals in the environment and display the signal strength on an OLED display. It's useful to find hidden cameras, wiretapping devices, and other RF-enabled devices.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Wingbits AI▲266AI agents for real-time aircraft monitoring and alerts
May 2026 · wingbits.ai · its alternatives →
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As part of a little research and also some fun I decided to try my hand at seeing how small of an ESP32 board I can make with functioning WiFi.
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DIY plane spotting with a Raspberry Pi and an Android phone
2025 · pilane.obviy.us · its alternatives →
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PandwaRF: RF analysis tool with a sub-1 GHz wireless transceiver controlled by a smartphone or - Home · ComThings/PandwaRF Wiki
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Flight logging and intelligence for drone operators
2015 · kittyhawk.io · its alternatives →
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Spatial awareness for your mobile apps
2022 · estimote.com · its alternatives →
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I've been working on this for a while now, and I'm happy to share! I've been into launching weather balloons for a few years. One aspect of the hobby that really drew me in was the tracking side of things. Tracking systems let you follow the balloon's position throughout the flight and, most importantly, know exactly where it lands so you can recover the instrumentation. APRS is what I started out using during my first few years in the hobby, after I got my amateur radio license in 2020 (W0MXX). I designed a few small boards using the trackuino…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN - My name is Andrew, and I'm a high school student. This is a write-up on StratoSpore, a payload I designed and launched to the stratosphere. The goal was to test if we could estimate physical altitude based on algae fluorescence (using a lightweight ML model trained on the sensor data). The blog post covers the full engineering mess/process, including: - The Hardware: Designing PCBs for the AS7263 spectral sensor and Pi Zero 2 W. -The biological altimeter: How I tried to correlate biological stress (fluorescence) with altitude. - The Communications: A custom lossy compression…
Nov 2025 · radi8.dev · its alternatives →
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AirBolt® GPS▲113World's Smallest GPS, LTE-M & NB-IoT tracker
2020 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to Park07/amradio development by creating an account on GitHub.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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AirVūz▲92A video-sharing platform for the worldwide drone community
2017 · airvuz.com · its alternatives →
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Tinfoil Pigeons▲120See the aircraft flying over you on a retro radar scope
Jun 2026 · tinfoilpigeons.com · its alternatives →
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A flight tracker made in 6 hours on a flight home from OuterNet - NalinPlad/OuterFlightTracker
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A high performance ADS-B receiver that shows plane positions
2016 · shop.planefinder.net · its alternatives →
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Empowering everyone to safely access the sky
2021 · wing.com · its alternatives →
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