Flight Conditions Wall Art

[TheTurtle]

I needed something to go over the expresso bar in the house.  Saw something similar to this on the internet and decided to drag out the raspberry pi and some LEDs and make one for myself.

I used PHP to grab the current metar every 15 minutes and updates the LED colors via Python.  Used LED string individually addressable RGB lights.

its about 30x20 inches.  I used a digital sectional of LA and added an inset of the Bay area since I fly up to WVI pretty often.

The code turned out to be the easy part.  Glueing and splicing all those dang LEDs was why it sat on the living room floor for a month.  Finally pinched myself in the ass and finished it up today.

it shows green/blue/purple/red for the flight conditions.

 

[thinwing]

Looks like a great hack!

[Skates97]

That's really cool. 

[MB65E]

Sick!

[201er]

Wow, that's actually really cool.

[DanM20C]

That’s a great use of a raspberry pi. Well done!

cheers,

Dan

[Mark89114]

What is PHP?

[201er]

3 minutes ago, Mark89114 said:

What is PHP?

PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

[DXB]

Super cool! Not being such a talented do it yourself-er, I'd love to see a commercial version!!

[Yetti]

Neat work.  You could also do the same with Node-red.  If you don't want to code...

[TheTurtle]

Just now, Yetti said:

Neat work.  You could also do the same with Node-red.  If you don't want to code...

thats cool.  Code turned out to be the easy part though!

[carusoam]

Technically ept, and fastest of the turtles...

Nice skills!

Thanks for sharing the pics... and details. 

Best regards,

-a-

[Browncbr1]

Nice job.   I like it!

[Hank]

5 hours ago, TheTurtle said:

thats cool.  Code turned out to be the easy part though!

For some of us, the coding would be the hard part!

[Hector]

Very cool


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[1964-M20E]

neat

 

would you care to share code, schematics and hardware list with the group?

 

[TheTurtle]

9 minutes ago, 1964-M20E said:

neat

 

would you care to share code, schematics and hardware list with the group?

 

im pretty bad with documentation.

i used these LEDs https://www.amazon.com/ALITOVE-Addressable-Digital-Diffused-Waterproof/dp/B06XD72LYM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1509935755&sr=8-3&keywords=ws2812b+led+string

A Raspberry Pi

this power supply to power the Pi and the LEDs  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M0KLECZ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Heres the code  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LkXqiQbU6o7YZ9F1NESZTwvruubY4cTp

its just some PHP to scrape the metar and convert to flight condition and then some python to talk to the LEDs.

Schematics is plug the green wire from the LEDs to GPIO pin 18 on the R Pi.

I used a diode between power and the LED power as well.  Cant remember why but I saw it one of the docs.

I run a cron every 15 minutes on the pi to run the PHP script and update the colors.

 

[201er]

Next project, draw the TFR rings!

[bonal]

Very creative and pretty darn cool. 

[22 others]

Came out to stalker hiding to say this:  

That's awesome. I now have a project for Christmas!  Thank you for sharing!