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

1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | 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. nanoamp ◴[03 May 23 09:29 UTC] No.35800020[source]▶
Ah neat. I'd forgotten I did something like this a few years back using an ADSB receiver on my roof, and integrated it into a Pi-powered digital clock. https://www.behance.net/gallery/42580099/Pi-Clock

It's abandonware now, because it was a PITA to get the flight data from behind a clunky paywall, and an Echo Show could do voice-driven stuff more easily. Maybe I could revisit it now and put it into an e-ink display instead, and use Flightaware or FR24 API...