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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

1901 points l2silver | 3 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.633s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
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billylo ◴[29 Apr 23 01:01 UTC] No.35748960[source]▶
I live on the flight path of a busy airport (Toronto) and have always wondered what type of aircrafts they are as they fly above me.

So, I made a "Plane Above Me" app that listens to airplane sound. Once detected, it polls data from flight APIs and read out the flight info and aircraft data.

In other words, it's my little "Flight Announcer".

https://evergreen-labs.com/PlaneAboveMe.html

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1. toyg ◴[29 Apr 23 19:30 UTC] No.35756273[source]▶
Can it measure intensity?

I grew up under a flight path, and now live... under another flight path. Luckily this one is used almost exclusively to land (much quieter) but my parents are still under a takeoff one. All airlines are supposed to follow certain rules to minimize noise, but many just flaunt them. Local authorities own the airport, so their interest in monitoring infractions is... very low.

Having an app that could detect and categorize bad actors, would be pretty cool.

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2. billylo ◴[29 Apr 23 19:55 UTC] No.35756542[source]▶
Not at the moment, but it would be easy to add.

If your parents use iPhone or iPad, I am happy to add an intensity label and/or a filter for them so it would display/read out those that are over certain thresholds.

3. ornornor ◴[30 Apr 23 18:18 UTC] No.35765156[source]▶
I’m almost certain I heard about a similar project years ago that would automatically file complaints and fine the offending airlines when they were too loud/flying too low.