alt Hacker NewsI built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house
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Their repo linked by someone in the comments: https://github.com/cpaczek/skylight
It's a planeatarium
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.
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.
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.
Oof that looks like a loud place to live :O Happy to see it inspiring a project tho take care
I'm sensing "The Conversation" levels of paranoia and it is beautiful.
I expect to have trouble falling asleep just vicariously relating to the noise level there. Awesome project though.
(To be clear, the "I" in the title is not me, the submitter - it's the title of the Reddit post).
Not too many things make my jaw literally drop, but this did. This is magnificent!
Maybe this would be a better link: https://skylightceiling.com/
or the repo https://github.com/cpaczek/skylight
That is cool!
This is so awesome
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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.