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Posted by frereubu 3 hours ago

I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house(old.reddit.com)
155 points | 21 comments
waltbosz 2 hours ago|
The repo subtitle is `Project the aircraft passing overhead onto your ceiling, in real time — an X-ray through the roof.`

The demo video starts outside pointing at a cloudy sky with an airplane passing overhead. My mind, seeded with the word "x-ray", thought the outside shot was the video projection on his ceiling. I thought his rain gutters were crown molding, and when the camera man runs inside, I thought he was running outside to show the real life airplane.

The actual projection is neat, but how fun would it be to have an x-ray projection of the night sky.

evan_ 26 minutes ago||
I thought the same thing! The plane being so low made it seem like an exaggerated computer-generated plane.
jasondigitized 1 hour ago|||
Thought the same thing. Would be super cool to project the night sky with procedurally generated cellestial objects, planes, spaceships, etc.
culopatin 1 hour ago|||
I thought the same exact thing and I thought that I would love a sky projection on my ceiling
notpushkin 1 hour ago||
> The actual projection is neat, but how fun would it be to have an x-ray projection of the night sky.

Something like Sega Toys Homestar?

voidUpdate 3 hours ago||
Their repo linked by someone in the comments: https://github.com/cpaczek/skylight
unzadunza 2 hours ago||
It's a planeatarium
DoneWithAllThat 24 minutes ago||
Random aside: there’s a restaurant in San Diego on the SAN flight path with a split flap display over the bar. Every time a flight passes over it updates to show flight number and departure airport. It’s quite neat.
ProllyInfamous 2 hours ago||
I bought several 3b+ Raspberries a really long time ago and this seems like the perfect simple&breathtaking project for such ancient hardware. Who needs a fourth PiHole on their local network?!

"Fortunately" I live directly beneath CHA's main landingstrip, so lots of regular data available. Fortunately, I am not in the main takeoff path because that would be much worse.

ryandrake 1 hour ago|
I've got a Raspberry Pi 2b I've been using for probably close to a decade, with two SDRs hanging off it, pulling aircraft ADS-B locations and VHF radio transmissions out of the sky. It's a great application for this platform. ADS-B scanner averages about 25% CPU and the VHF airband receiver averages about 17% (uses hardware FFT).
thenthenthen 1 hour ago||
Such a fan of the lower power, fanless, larger/‘regular’ connectors old school rapi’s.
mikeweiss 3 hours ago||
Wow so cool! I had daydreamed about doing something similar with e-ink display on my wall so I could see details about whatever plane I'm hearing.. but this blows that out of the water.
threeio 25 minutes ago|
https://conormclaughlin.net/2024/04/published-how-i-finished...

I have used this on my tidbyt (now a Tronbyt) for years for this purpose... simple solution tied into my adsb system

thenthenthen 1 hour ago||
Oof that looks like a loud place to live :O Happy to see it inspiring a project tho take care
JKCalhoun 3 hours ago||
I'm sensing "The Conversation" levels of paranoia and it is beautiful.
gruntled-worker 1 hour ago||
I expect to have trouble falling asleep just vicariously relating to the noise level there. Awesome project though.
frereubu 2 hours ago|
(To be clear, the "I" in the title is not me, the submitter - it's the title of the Reddit post).
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