Build Tour: Aviation Weather LED Map
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- This time, I'm building a live aviation weather map, with LEDs for each airport! Join me as I go through the map choice, the build, and the code.
You can see a writeup of the build, including a parts list and links to the code, here: aeracode.org/2...
Music is "Dreams" by Bensound.
Good stuff man, i feel like your channel is underrated.
Ive nearly finished my own 3d printed map of SF, which leverages your lidartile project, thanks for making that open source (though it seems lastools requires a license since you've made your video, which complicated the process greatly).
Yeah, I need to look into writing my own LiDAR thinning and basic 2D conversion code. There's some libraries out there to do it, and I don't need all the fancy features of lastools that the money is really going towards.
nice. but I would not use hot glue. it tends to get sort of nasty yellowish over time
Hi Andrew! I seriously need help with your lidar data city printing tutorial. Could you please respond or give me another way to contact you?
Hi Simon - you can find my contact details on my website (aeracode.org).
I'm glad to see someone not using the 12mm LED string that non-technical people use. I'm working on one right now using 186 5050 LEDs with light pipes for the Southeast.
What a great idea. Thanks for making this video. I think i'll do similar but maybe custom led pcb with a jst connector and code in circuit python.
Trying to help my grandson create a map like this. Not sure how to connect the lights to the photon. Do you have specs on how to wire the "core brains" of the Photon you mention salvaging at 1:18? TY
Great project and executing! One question, why not do some measurements and solder before glueing all the LEDS?
Ah, I tried that on the first map! It's mostly because I find it easier to solder all the LEDs while they're in place; having to lay them out and make what is essentially a wiring loom first is just an extra step I'm too lazy to take :)
(besides, the glue is reversible once or twice if you screw up, so there's a little room for mistakes)
Projects like this are why I made AVWX in the first place. Nice job 🎉
What is the website url?
This is great, I am thinking of doing one with a metal print, and was considering a raspberry pi as the controller but this looks even more interesting considering how simple this is. I also am going to create a legend as well as perhaps a box with a zoomed in area of the sectional, so a bit of image customization. Thanks for the ideas. Found the premade neopixel strips on amazon
Yeah, a Pi can definitely work as the controller - just as long as it can supply enough power for the strip! (It probably can unless it's a Pi Zero, the Pis generally have a lot more spare overhead on their power regulators)
What was the program that you used to download the stitched-together VFR sectional chart?
It's just a custom one I wrote, it's part of github.com/andrewgodwin/landcarve - the "tileimage" command, though it's not exactly easy to use if you weren't the one who wrote it.
@@AndrewGodwin I’m in the same position where the sectional maps would need to be tiled together. Is there any way you could do a video on how you used your Python code to stitch these sectionals together? That would be a huge help.
This is something I want to do, but with train stations and bus stops, might have to license an area of the local OS Map 🤔
Oh now that'd be fun. You could even try to get the rail signalling feed and if you wanted proper train location per signal block!
Andrew Godwin that’s my plan, theres something called SMART, OpenLDBWS and NextBuses API that the UK Gov provide, along with various other seemingly random datasets, I should have all I need, just need to decide on a size, the type of map, could even be a 3D terrain map using OS Terrain 5, and colour each segment according to OS Green Space or OS Open Local or OS Vector Map Local
Honestly, our Goverment is pretty useful when it comes to open data, shame about the rest of there jobs 😅
SMART: datafeeds.networkrail.co.uk/ntrod/login
LDBWS: lite.realtime.nationalrail.co.uk/openldbws/
NextBuses: www.travelinedata.org.uk/traveline-open-data/nextbuses-api/
UKGov Open Data: data.gov.uk/
Ordnance Survey Data: osdatahub.os.uk/
Andrew Godwin Honestly, if your willing to go down a rabbit hole of mapping The OS just opened up so much more data than the ever have in the past, you can even get 3D building details 😅
@@almostanengineer Yeah, I haven't dug into a lot of the new open data stuff yet, but I'm super glad at the progress. The UK also has much better LiDAR data than a lot of the US, too.
It’s only recently they opened it up, when I first found your channel, the 3D world, it didn’t exist, this video made me look for the mapping data, and it’s so much more open than it was before.