Related:<p>My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar (November 2023) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38435908">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38435908</a><p>My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar (January 2024) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39094288">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39094288</a>
Watching football this fall, I've been thinking about a little box that sits on my table and mutes the TV whenever an ad comes on.<p>Not decoding HDMI HDCP or anything, but a webcam + AI or whatever that watches football with me and mutes ads. Similar to plane detection, maybe. Are there any projects like this?
I recommend to not show dates as it can easily help triangulate your location of where this Pi is running, and with the internet crowd, doxxing yourself is never a good idea.
Really cool. I've considered doing something similar for alerting me of things seen in the air but without a transponder turned on. Good tip about the birds, I wouldn't have anticipated that ha.<p>Aside, the way air travel still happens out in the open in terms of communications data has a real early Internet vibe to me.
related: automated Las Vegas plane spotting <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5PtT7KdlKc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5PtT7KdlKc</a><p>this person has some sort of OpenCV setup from a high-rise view. (bonus: Air Force One is currently there)
This is great. So I’ve thought of doing something slightly similar but with a raspberry Pi and camera to identify if there is a free parking space right outside our house (we live in a terraced house with no driveway)
Given that drone warfare is now a thing this seems like it could be useful as the basis of a personal drone detection and warning kit that soldiers could wear over their helmet to spot drones and give say an audible warning in the soldiers ears that lets the soldier locate the drone direction and maybe azimuth with pitch - lower frequency for a low drone and high for one more overhead. Not sure if such a thing already exists. That and a shotgun would be a reasonable defense.
Very cool!<p>This plane suspiciously looks like a bird though: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/cUdnZTN.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/cUdnZTN.png</a>
The set up: <a href="https://obviy.us/blog/pilane-spotting/" rel="nofollow">https://obviy.us/blog/pilane-spotting/</a>